Abstract The Moroccan and Spanish governments pursue the visibility of people and things.
They observe and survey in order to codify, catalogue, classify, and calculate. Rather than …

Bakers and soldiers strive to provide subsistence and security to the residents of Amman
and Baghdad. Yet neither set of actors is involved in straightforward administrative work; …

For decades, autocracy and state distribution of jobs and welfare were closely intertwined.
However, in recent decades, many autocracies––whether austerity-stricken, hydrocarbon …