Background Remarkable financial and political efforts have been focused on the reduction
of child mortality during the past few decades. Timely measurements of levels and trends in …

Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics. The particular design which social programs
take is to a large extent determined by the existing institutional constraints and politicians' …

Many scholars claim that democracy improves the welfare of the poor. This article uses data
on infant and child mortality to challenge this claim. Cross‐national studies tend to exclude …

The idea of participatory governance has gained enormous popularity in recent times, both
in academic discourse and actual practice. Analysts have used theoretical constructs such …

Reviewing 40 years of hard, empirical data, from China and India to Chile and Iraq, the
authors show that poor democracies beat poor autocracies in every economic measure. In …

'Structural adjustment'has been a central part of the development strategy for the'third world'.
Loans made by the World Bank and the IMF have been conditional on developing countries …

Why do democracy protests emerge in some countries at certain times, but not in others?
Why do governments accommodate these protests, undertaking sweeping reforms in some …

Studies on developed countries demonstrate that an increase in women legislators leads to
a prioritization in health, an increase in social policy spending, and a decrease in poverty …

Background Conceptual and theoretical links between politics and public health are
longstanding. Internationally comparative systematic review evidence has shown links …

This study attempts to reconcile competing positions in an important debate about the
relationship between regime type and human development. We contend that this empirical …