We discuss the challenges confronting environmental governance caused by the increasing
connectivity of resource-use systems and the growing functional interdependencies of …

I provide a critical overview of the literature on political decentralization. After reviewing first-
and second-generation theories of federalism, I describe recent empirical studies focusing …

–For v11 there was a mistake in aggregating a number of A and A* variables from country-
date to country-year by using the wrong aggregation method, most often using maximum …

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The Digital Society Survey, designed by the Digital Society Project, contains questions
pertaining to the political environment of the internet and social media. The data collected …

While there have been rapid advances in assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem
services (BES), a critical remaining challenge is how to move from scientific knowledge to …

The most important theoretical argument concerning decentralization is that it can make
government more accountable and responsive to the governed. Improving governance is …

Motivated by the prevalence of economic targets at all levels of territory administration in
China, this article proposes a Tullock contest model to study optimal target setting in a multi …

How does the central state affect public goods provision by local actors? I study the effect of
state capacity on local governance in sub-Saharan Africa, which I argue depends on …

China's long-term economic dynamics pose a formidable challenge to economic historians.
The Qing Empire (1644–1911), the world's largest national economy before 1800 …