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“Standards of Democracy” Bibliography
Bergougnous, Georges. Presiding Officers of National Parliamentary Assemblies. InterParliamentary Union. Geneva, 1997.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Commonwealth Principles on the
Accountability of and the Relationship Between the Three Branches of
Government. Abuja, December, 2003.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association homepage: http://www.cpahq.org/
Principles…: http://www.cpahq.org/topics/Latiemerhouseprinciples_page132.aspx
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Governance Structures and the Democratic
Process: Roundtable on Managing Parliament-Executive Interface in the
Commonwealth. Capetown, South Africa, 30 November-4 December, 1998.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, London, 1999.
http://www.cpahq.org/uploadstore/docs/3.pdf
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Recommendations for an Informed
Democracy. Conclusions of a CPA Study Group on Parliament and the Media
held in partnership with the World Bank Institute and The Parliament of Western
Australia. Perth, Western Australia, 17-21 February, 2003. Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association, London, 2003.
http://www.cpahq.org/uploadstore/docs/Perth.pdf
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Recommendations for Transparent
Governance. Conclusions of a CPA-WBI Study Group on Access to Information,
held in partnership with the Parliament of Ghana. Accra, Ghana, 5-9 July 2004.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, London, 2004.
http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/programs/ai/rti/international/cw_standards/recommendation
s_for_transparent_governance.pdf
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. The Financing and Administration of
Parliament. Report of a CPA Study Group hosted by the Legislature of Zanzibar,
Tanzania, from 25 to 29 May 2005. Commonwealth Parliamentary Association,
London, 2005.
www.cpahq.org/AdministrationandFinancingofParliamentStudyGroupReport_pdf_media_public.a
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro
237 Graham Building, Post Office Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170 Telephone 1 (336) 334-4360 Fax 1 (336) 334-4315
Community of Democracies. Final Warsaw Declaration: Toward a Community of
Democracies. Warsaw, June 27, 2000.
Community of Democracies homepage: http://www.ccd21.org/index.htm
Warsaw Declaration: http://www.ccd21.org/articles/warsaw_declaration.htm
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Declaration of Criteria for Free and Fair Elections. Paris,
March 26, 1994.
Inter-Parliamentary Union homepage: http://www.ipu.org/english/home.htm
Declaration of Criteria...: http://www.ipu.org/cnl-e/154-free.htm
Organisation of American States. AG/RES. 2057 (XXIV-O/04). Access to Public
Information: Strengthening Democracy. Quito, June 8, 2004.
OAS Homepage: www.oas.org
Access…:
http://www.ddpa.oas.org/docs/general_assembly/2004/ag_res_2057_xxxix_O_04_eng.pdf
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD Report on
Parliamentary Procedures and Relations. PUMA/LEG (2000)/2/REV1, 2001.
http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2000doc.nsf/4f7adc214b91a685c12569fa005d0ee7/c125692700623
b74c12569dc005f479b/$FILE/JT00101665.PDF
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Existing Commitments for
Democratic Elections in OSCE Participating States. OSCE/ODIHR, Warsaw,
2003.
http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2003/10/772_en.pdf
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. OSCE Dimension Seminar on
Democratic Institutions and Democratic Governance, Warsaw, 12-14 May, 2004.
OSCE/ODIHR, 2004.
http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2004/09/3646_en.pdf
Drawn from: Towards the Development of International Minimum Standards for the
Functioning of Democratic Legislatures (NDI 2006).
WBH/Feb. 22, 2006
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