In the summer of 2020, George Floyd’s video-graphed murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked a renewed public discourse about the role…
Since the 1990s, neo-institutionalists have posited that "institutions matter". However, they overlook one important issue: the ways…
Many low-income households in the US miss out on social safety net benefits because of the information, compliance, and psychological costs…
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Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises…
Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…
Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching –…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing the power of problem-oriented governance as a way to address complex public…