Sierra Leone: A vote for better governance

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-83

  Wyrod, Christopher ^a  

^a International Republican Institute in Timor Leste (East Timor)

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EID: 39349088842     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2008.0012     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Paul Collier et al., Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2003).
2. One preelection survey found that more than half the eligible voters polled placed little or no trust in national politicians. BBC World Service Trust and Search for Common Ground, "Sierra Leone Elections 2007: A Comprehensive Baseline Study of Knowledge, Priorities and Trust" (U.K. Government Department for International Development, June 2007).
3. William Reno, Corruption and State Politics' in Sierra Leone (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
4. Human Rights Watch, "Sowing Terror: Atrocities against Civilians in Sierra Leone," New York, July 1998, Vol. 10, No. 3 (A), www.hrw.org/reports98/sierra.
5. TRC Report, "Findings," in The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone, Vol. 2 (2004), paras. 95-97, www.trcsierraleone.org.
6. Human Rights Watch, "Getting Away with Murder, Mutilation, Rape: New Testimony from Sierra Leone," New York, July 1999, Vol. 11, No. 3 (A).
7. National Election Watch, "Report on the Voter Registration Process," March 2007.
8. European Union Observation Mission to Sierra Leone, "Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions," 13 August 2007.
9. Jimmy D. Kandeh, "Sierra Leone's Post-conflict Elections of 2002," Journal of Modern African Studies 41 (June 2003): 189-216.
10. David Keen, Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone (Oxford: James Currey, 2005), 296-97.