Innovations for Successful Societies
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| Abbreviation | ISS |
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| Formation | 2008 |
| Purpose | Public Sector Reforms |
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Parent organization | Princeton University |
| Affiliations | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice |
| Website | Official Site |
Formerly called | Institutions for Fragile States |
Innovations for Successful Societies (ISS) is a research program at Princeton University. ISS investigates government efforts to overcome strategic problems and development traps in emerging democracies. ISS is a joint program of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice.
History
[edit]The Bobst Center and Woodrow Wilson School first created the program to support educational policy workshops and symposia on fragile states in 2006-7. The program took its current form and the name "Innovations for Successful Societies" in January 2008.
Research
[edit]ISS publishes case studies and oral histories about public sector reforms. To date, ISS has published more than 100 case studies of reform efforts[1] and conducted more than 2,000 in-country interviews with local government officials, journalists, activists, and experts.[2] About one fifth of these interviews are recorded, transcribed and published as part of the group's Oral History Project.[3] ISS case studies have been featured by Chris Blattman,[4] Slate,[5] Foreign Policy's "Democracy Lab,"[6] and the Tony Blair African Governance Initiative,[7] among others.
The program's research focuses on efforts in civil service, accountable policing, elections, city management, corruption control, centers of government, and decentralization.
References
[edit]- ^ "Case Studies". Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ "Interviews". Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ Ibid
- ^ Blattman, Chris (18 September 2011). "By studying the particular, we learn something about the general". Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ Holmes, Jamie (14 December 2011). "I've Got My Eye on You: How biometric IDs like iris scans will help developing countries fight corruption and bust fake workers". Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ Kuris, Gabriel (6 May 2013). "Outfoxing the Oligarchs in Latvia". Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ Ratcliffe, Andy (25 March 2012). "Governing in prose: Princeton case studies highlight the day-to-day challenges of reform". Archived from the original on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.