This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or
strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic …

Research over the past decade has made considerable progress toward achieving a holistic
understanding of the myriad actors, interests, and relationships shaping labor rights in …

Poor working conditions in global supply chains have led to private initiatives that seek to
regulate labor practices in developing countries. But how effective are these regulatory …

This article offers the first systematic review of empirical research addressing the question of
why employers underpay their employees, from the perspective of employers themselves–a …

Bureaucratic reforms worldwide seek to improve the quality of governance. In this article, we
argue that the major governance failures are political, not bureaucratic, and the first step to …

Building state capacity has often been hailed as a cure-all for the ailments of the developing
world and has been linked to human rights improvements, economic development, and the …

Given the disappointing outcomes of private regulation of labour in global supply chains,
worker organization is increasingly seen as the key to better working conditions. This article …

In response to anti‐sweatshop activism, lead firms in global production networks (GPNs)
have adopted voluntary corporate social responsibility commitments such as codes of …

There is broad consensus in the literature on regulatory enforcement and compliance that
politics matters. However, there is little scholarly convergence on what politics is or rigorous …

In recent years, global corporations and national governments have been enacting a
growing number of codes of conduct and public regulations to combat dangerous and …