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Why do some countries escape the political resource curse while others do not? Most scholars argue that avoiding the claimed anti-democratic effects of natural resources, especially oil, largely
frequently taken place on the margins of the disciplines of sociology and political science. Yet contributions from disciplinary social sciences bring unique theoretical perspectives, carry particular ... Fund, and U.S. Agency for International Development. He showed that NGOs were involved not just in political projects attached to a larger project of democratization but also a deeply economic one
countries have taken notably different approaches regarding the inclusion of private actors in their expanding healthcare systems. In this article, we explore the political causes and consequences of partial ... international coercion, e.g., by the World Bank. The introduction of these private options has since led to the growth of private hospital and insurance markets and the political entrenchment of partial
Reductions in premature mortality are widely attributed to economic, educational, and medical factors. This study contributes to our understanding of the influence of political factors in preventing ... the annual, sex-specific standard deviation of the age-at-death distribution across 162 countries. We apply dynamic panel model analyses to assess the association between political liberalization and
By now, most political systems around the world hold regular multiparty elections of different quality and type. However, we know relatively little about the effect of elections on corruption ... corruption has, since its take-off in the mid-1990s, been strongly guided by analytical frameworks that emphasize the role of formal political institutions in explaining the prevalence of corrupt practices
associated with homogenous conditions like, respectively, leftist authoritarian regimes and rich democracies with stable economies. Political economy; Qualitative comparative analysis; Capital flow management ... capital controls had lost their effectiveness to shield national economies, many economists and political scientists passed to anticipate a global move towards capital account openness (Andrews 1994
recent micro-level research by conceptualizing households with remittances as a transnational dispersed interest group in the political economy of taxation. Remittances increase recipients’ wealth and ... Michael D. Tyburski 0 0 Department of Political Science, Kansas State University , 802 Mid Campus Dr. South, 101D Calvin Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506 , USA Do international remittances increase
them to solve unrelated, discrete, short-term political problems. Understanding the latter is key to understanding the characteristics of many real reforms, and hence their fate. We introduce the concept ... & Government, London School of Economics and Political Science , Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE , UK 1 Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science , Houghton
by the nation-state towards economic development. The findings align with the institutionalist political economy views that institutions are the ultimate overseers that allow the market to operate ... institutional political economy approach. Institutional change; Strategic choices; Vertical integration; Human capital; Intangible assets; Institutional political economy; Russia Introduction Emerging
political ties or learn to accommodate unexpected disruptions. Yet in the sphere of environmental policy implementation, businesses across the spectrum are starting to complain that local environmental ... guarantees (Clarke 2003, 106; Benson 1988) . In China, political leaders have cultivated this predictability through internal mandates that reward local officials for economic growth above all policies
This article investigates why, in two different political and institutional contexts, leftist governing parties became agents of empowered inclusion, boosting the capacity of subordinate social ... . To explain how and why this happened, it highlights the ambiguous nature of party-society linkages. While societal ties are necessary for sustained significant progress in social and political
escaping the middle-income trap should consider how changes in partial political coalitions affect policy models and options. ... school offers mostly a list of complex challenges (in particular, the various “cleavages” between political organizations, social groups, and institutions) but little in terms of concrete alternatives
gap. As a ward-level institutional intervention, the WDP provided a needed ward-level political structure for collectively advocating to both the county and international donors. At the meso-level, the ... implementation (Pain 2018); the uneven operation of a program’s implementation and theory of change due to cultural, institutional, political, and capacity constraints (Hanif et al. 2022); and the meaningful
, best known for constructing massive overseas infrastructure projects for commercial and political gain, execute smaller, lower-profile humanitarian projects? Similarly, why would humanitarian ... outbreak, and ongoing deadly political unrest.7 IMAGINE is not branded as a Chinese-led development project, nor is it a megaproject with high levels of national or international media coverage. Neither
rule of law itself (Holcombe and Castillo 2013; Holcombe 2018) . Political economists generally acknowledge that the problem of containing unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship is an ... the state is “embedded” and maintains close linkages with firms, it can remain “autonomous” through careful policy designs that minimise political capture (Evans 1995). Within the context of an
,” citing political unrest, dilapidated public infrastructure, and low wages as just a few of the consequences of high fertility and population growth (Bongaarts 2016, 409–10) . A persistent focus of these ... fertility and rapid population growth are likely to have adverse economic, environmental, health, governmental, and political consequences… This raises the question of how the fertility decline could be
that is attributed to foreign rule for political-administrative organization around the world. The effectiveness of imperial rule may differ along the administrative hierarchy because empires are often ... dimensions, including political-economic structures (Acemoglu et al. 2001, 2002; Lankina and Getachew 2012; Lankina and Libman 2019; Nathan 2019; Paine 2019) , legal systems (Acemoglu et al. 2011; La
, scholarship does point to the political nature of expertise and the political struggles underpinning the development and implementation of global norms (Block-Lieb and Halliday 2017; Kentikelenis and Seabrooke ... 2017) . The factors that underpin which global health initiatives are given political priority have been primarily discussed as actor and issue-level attributes (Shiffman and Smith 2007) . But less
country’s political leadership and therefore has the benefit of efficiency. On the other hand, increased regulation is expensive, requiring a significant investment in the scale and technical capacity of ... that firms engage in voluntary pollution abatement to preempt potential future regulations, thereby avoiding the complexities of the political process and achieving welfare gains (Maxwell and Decker