This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It…
This paper compares Japan and the US as they provide different types of capital to the developing world, focusing especially on foreign aid…
As we consider over two decades of change in Bolivia, it now seems to us that understanding history involves adjusting short-term…
This article evaluates a body of recent work that uses field and natural experiments to answer the question of whether informed voters can…
I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing resources to…
In most recent writings about governance reform and development,
recipes are out. So are “one size ?ts all” and idealized end states.…
India Policy Forum is a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) that aims…
We examine several hypotheses regarding the determinants and implications of political protest,
motivated by the wave of popular uprisings…
The concept of good enough governance provides a
platform for questioning the long menu of institutional changes and
capacity-building…