How do political institutions influence crisis management? By comparing responses to
COVID-19 in China and South Korea, this article argues that different political institutions …

How did representative institutions become the central organs of governance in Western
Europe? What enabled this distinctive form of political organization and collective action that …

The majority of developing countries have indicated capacity building as a condition for
implementing their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement …

Although today's richest countries tend to have long histories of secure private property
rights, legal-titling projects do little to improve the economic and political well-being of those …

In 2012, Cambodia—an epicenter of violent land grabbing—announced a bold new initiative
to develop land redistribution efforts inside agribusiness concessions. Alice Beban's …

Chinese bureaucracy, with its long history and distinctive characteristics, has provided the
organizational basis of governance and played a pivotal role in the economic takeoff in …

Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to
improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponents of this “stateness-first” …

La défaite des Taliban dans le sillage des attentats du 11 septembre ouvre deux décennies
d'investissement occidental en Afghanistan. Des centaines de milliards, pour l'essentiel …

Israel attracts enormous attention among scholars, journalists, politicians, and the general
public. Some regard the country as an apartheid regime that can only be challenged through …

Singapore's response to the Covid-19 pandemic has largely been seen as timely and
effective, with border lock-downs and contact tracing efforts by city-state's policymakers …