Global environmental imaginaries such as “the climate crisis” and “water wars” dominate the
discussion on African states and their predicament in the face of global warming and unmet …

Autocrats typically seek public support on the basis of economic growth-promotion and
redistribution policies, and China is no exception. As important as these factors are for …

This article investigates the implementation effects of China's recent reforms to centralize its
court system and offers an explanation of why such centralization efforts largely failed …

The introduction starts by contextualizing recent immigration reforms in China that aimed to
comprehend new regional mobilities such as increasing influx of working immigrants from …

The availability of and demand for water in China is an extreme case of uneven distribution
in time and space. In response, the South to North Water Diversion (SNWD) project, the …

How do actors develop entrepreneurial activities to bring about policy change? To what
extent do the contexts in which they are embedded shape their behaviors? Relying on three …

The article makes the case for a distinctive intellectual tradition of the industrial policy
paradigm to examine state strategies in the twenty-first century. Specifically, it outlines three …

Nell'ultimo secolo abbiamo cavalcato la nostra fortuna. Abbiamo trascurato una catastrofe
annunciata che un giorno, spinta dalla pandemia, è arrivata. I mercati azionari sono caduti …

The article links policy adaptation in Rwanda to the wider phenomenon of authoritarian
persistence. We analyse political decision-making and implementation in a variety of policy …

China's cadre evaluation system–the personnel management system used to assess the
performance of government officials in the party-state–is considered an important tool for …