Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies
and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually …

A growing literature explores how local environments, or contexts, affect political behavior,
especially by shaping interpersonal contact with social out-groups. While many studies still …

States are often minimally present in the rural periphery. Yet a limited presence does not
mean a limited impact. Isolated state actions in regions where the state is otherwise scarce …

Scholarship on African and other developing societies often argues that governments
allocate private goods as political patronage, but recent work has called this assumption into …

Why are some communities better than others at generating cooperative behavior? We
argue that mutual dependence on collective social institutions (CSI) increases expectations …

In coming decades, Africa's urban populations will expand, and the effects of climate change
be more keenly felt. Land policies and institutions will be key for urban dwellers to be able …

This article seeks to explain the dynamics of resource depletion in North Korea's fishery. We
utilize insights from the common-pool resource (CPR) literature and show how theories from …

While well-defined urban property rights to support land and financial markets are widely
considered to be essential for economic development, many studies using household-based …

In coming decades, Africa's urban populations will expand, and effects of climate change
more keenly felt. In this context, land policies and institutions will be essential to allow urban …

This dissertation examines links between politics and businesses in resource-abundant, low-
income countries. I argue that privatizations and the awarding of property rights do not …