Case Studies

List of Case Studies articles

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ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images

For the People, By the People in Indonesia

How one of Southeast Asia's most corrupt countries gave power over funding to its poorest citizens.

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TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images

How Tradition Remade Rwanda

The secret ingredient in Rwanda's efforts to rebuild its nation after the violence of genocide.

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Lalage Snow/AFP/Getty Images

The Changemakers

How reformers made the Bangladeshi civil service more responsive to people's needs.

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Tom Stoddart/Getty Images

Redrawing the Map for Democracy

How South Africa's post-apartheid government tried to do away with the territorial legacy of racial segregation.

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Brent Stirton/Getty Images

Bridging Kenya’s Data Divide

How Africa’s tech leader made it from PDFs to paperless.

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ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images

Liberia Leans In

In a country where rape has been used as a weapon of war, reformers are making special efforts to turn women into cops.

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ILMARS ZNOTINS/AFP/Getty Images

Outfoxing the Oligarchs in Latvia

How a tiny Baltic republic succeeded in taking its oligarchs down a peg.

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Photo by DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY/AFP/Getty Images

Policing Electoral Violence in India

How India's elections administration used “vulnerability mapping” to stop trouble before it happened.

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Photo by JODY AMIET/AFP/Getty Images

Cooling Ethnic Conflict in Guyana’s Elections

Guyana's 2001 presidential election left the country deeply divided along ethnic lines. In 2006, they decided to try something new.

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Photo by WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP/Getty Images

Paving the Way for Mandela’s Election

Organizing the first post-apartheid election in 1994 took a lot of logistical planning and political inclusion. But it also took a lot of creativity in finding  solutions to the numerous problems that arose.

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Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Avoiding War Number Two in Liberia

A war-torn country is not a broken country. How Liberia pulled off its 2005 election.

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Photo by PEDRO LADEIRA/AFP/GettyImages

Changing the Code on Corruption

How a Brazilian government commission tried to fight back against sleaze.

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MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO/AFP/GettyImages

The Anti-Godfather

How a mayor set out to save a Sicilian city from neglect and Mafia influence.

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Photo by AFP/Getty Images

Rebooting the Bureaucracy in Georgia

As Georgian voters prepare to vote in a crucial parliamentary election, a look back at one of the signature programs of President Mikheil Saakashvili. 

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Taking on the Gangs in Cape Town

How local officials in a township in post-apartheid South Africa confronted the challenge of gang violence.

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