This study explores the intersection between accountability policies and anti-corruption
measures. Transnational actors define acceptable governance and implement …

Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change,
hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state …

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions
during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow …

Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of
billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The …

We address a central question about the integration of developing countries into the global
economy: what factors affect public support for such globalization. Do public preferences …

In this paper we investigate whether trade liberalization leads to more stringent product
standards in a developing country context, uncovering the role that the connected firms' …

Purpose–Previously elaborated research works, dealing with the political uncertainty effect
on stock market, have been primarily concerned with such political events as terrorist …

Non-party ministers and technocrats have emerged as leading political actors in post-
revolutionary Tunisia. Five heads of government out of eight appointed between 2011 and …

How do political crises affect the interaction between economic and political outcomes? In
this paper, we study one of the consequences of political turmoil by empirically examining …

Neste trabalho de fôlego, as autoras Rose-Ackerman e Palifka analisam a corrupção de
uma perspectiva abrangente. De um lado, a obra reconhece que a corrupção é um tema …