Subject(s): Democratic Institutions and politics -- Democratic decentralization -- Ethnic conflicts -- Democracy -- Democratization -- Political violence -- Democratic institutions and democratic politics -- Pro-poor policies -- politics of institutional design in south African transition -- Constitutional government since 1994 , provincial government -- Reformulation of Uganda democracy -- Ghana : political economy of successful ethno-regional conflict management -- Economic rationalisation -- Neo-liberal economic reforms and political consequence -- NDC-Rawlings governmental and national unity -- Politics of institutional design: and overview of the case of Sri Lanka -- Politics of exclusion -- Proportional representation, political violence and participation of women in the political process in Sri Lanka -- Women representation -- Sri Lankan women legislators -- Proportional representation system and a negatively fragmented parliament -- Political subordination of women -- Political economy of electoral reforms : proportional representation in Sri Lanka -- Universal franchise and capitalism -- FPTP system of elections -- Electoral engineering and the politicisation of ethnic friction in Fiji -- Ethnic conflict and electoral history -- Mid 1990s constitutional review and the post-independence cross-voting system -- Alternative vote system -- Preference trading, coalition formation and coalition dissolution -- Multi-ethnic parties -- Building democracy from the outside: the Dayton agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Managing ethnic conflicts : democratic decentralisation in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Conflict management