The literature on development nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) envisions an
alternative form of social organization, one that is more altruistic, more cooperative, and less …

Across Latin America, societies are confronting the rise of novel orders in which state
officials and political authorities share power with criminal organizations. Criminal …

An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research
Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to …

Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national
citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak …

Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while
postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus …

Why do some countries fall apart, often along their ethnic fault lines, while others have held
together over decades and centuries, despite governing an equally diverse population …

Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and
quantitative methods. In A Tale of Two Cultures, Gary Goertz and James Mahoney …

In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources
vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned …

This article analyses the evolution of COVID-19 and early government responses to the
pandemic in eight South American countries. To this aim, this study explores indicators …

This book argues that-in terms of institutional design, the allocation of power and privilege,
and the lived experiences of citizens-democracy often does not restart the political game …