The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations
in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the …

A former hedge fund worker takes an ethnographic approach to Wall Street to expose who
wins, who loses, and why inequality endures. Who do you think of when you imagine a …

The hedge fund industry is one of the most lucrative and powerful industries in the USA, yet
it mostly comprises white men. To understand why, I turn to Weber's theory of …

The headline of a 2013 newspaper article, in reference to the growing importance of
municipal issues such as bus fares, green spaces, and garbage collection throughout the …

The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of patrimonial rule not only in the developing
world but also, more surprisingly, in the developed West. This resurgence carries potentially …

This article provides an analytical framework for understanding why and how many
authoritarian regimes have recently adopted reforms that address gender equality. I illustrate …

This paper contributes to the contemporary discussion about the political consequences of
the COVID-19 pandemic situation. The goal of the text is to identify and analyze the neo …

Why hasn't the marked increase in women in politics over the last half century led to the
expected results of increased gender equality and more democracy? In order to propose a …

Russian politics from the tsars through Vladimir Putin has been shaped by patronalism, a
social equilibrium in which personal connections dominate, collective action happens …

This book examines the regime changes in Iraq and Libya to unravel the complexity of
statebuilding in countries emerging from authoritarianism and conflict in the Middle East and …