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About Schmitz Tobias

Tobias Schmitz is a PhD student at Radboud University Nijmegen. He worked in South Africa for many years, amongst other things as senior researcher and research manager at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg. He has a background in development studies and has completed a PhD on institutional responses to water scarcity in South Africa.


By Schmitz Tobias

What does good governance exactly mean? Should it be promoted in order to enhance democracy? Or to create markets? Should we look only at formal institutions or also at civil society? Beyond the technical definitions lies a much more complex political debate, involving notions that are usually not considered by politicians and policy makers.   read more >>