Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have
proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without …

Why do some small, developing countries industrialize and others don't? What factors
account for different economic performance among states that are vulnerable to external …

ABSTRACT Across the Global South, authoritarian rule and extractivist agendas have
intensified the harassment and murder of activists protecting remnant forest frontiers. In …

An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or'squatter'settlements in the rapidly
growing cities of the developing world. With such settlements often lacking basic necessities …

Southeast Asia is a vast and complex region, comprising countries with remarkably diverse
histories and cultures. Jacques Bertrand provides a fresh and highly original survey of …

Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research, this book provides a path-breaking
account of civil society in the Philippines. It challenges the widespread belief in political …

The Philippine left's short-lived association with the government of Rodrigo Duterte from
2016 vexed political observers, whether sympathetic to or critical of the left. Against the …

Corruption interferes with and distorts the political and implementation processes, often to
the disadvantage of the already disadvantaged. Yet our understanding of the factors that …

Since poverty is often believed to be a root cause of clientelism, government policies to
reduce poverty should also help to reduce clientelism. However, scholars studying …

In the Philippines, re-democratization has seen the emergence of new modes of political
participation for extra-parliamentary oppositions that are variously aligned with the poor …