Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society
and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the …

Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and
settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of …

In light of the growing interest in the dark side of organizations in mainstream research, two
concepts related to organizational behavior and management literature have received …

This paper reviews anthropological literature on the topic of how and why civil services
function as they do. The paper considers the formal and informal rules that structure …

In Diplomatic Material Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by
tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions …

The objective of this article is to provide a critical assessment of the emerging Post‐
Washington Consensus (PWC), as the new influential vision in the development debate. The …

In this introductory article, we call for a new anthropology of bureaucracy focused on'the
public good'. We aim to recapture this concept from its classic setting within the discipline of …

In comparison with other regional host countries Lebanon's response to the Syrian refugee
crisis is characterized by a remarkable degree of institutional ambiguity. Government policy …

Our paper engages with Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) as an emerging social policy instrument
in the Anglo-American world with particular emphasis on the UK. Starting from the …

The global financial crisis has transformed the relationship between the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU). Until the crisis, the IMF had not lent to …