When and how do governments deliver public goods and services in response to citizen
preferences? We review the current literature on government responsiveness, with a focus …

Institutions are a key determinant of economic growth, but the critical junctures in which
institutions can change are not precisely defined. For example, such junctures are often …

In the context of an exponential rise in access to information in the last two decades, this
special issue explores when and how information might be harnessed to improve …

This study investigates how terrorism affects governance in 53 African countries for the
period 1998–2012. Four terrorism indicators are used namely: domestic, transnational …

Active research on a wide range of political contexts centers on ethnicity's role in collective
action. Many theories posit that information flows more easily in ethnically homogeneous …

This study investigates whether mobile phone penetration modulates the effect of different
indicators of governance on some indicators of the ease of doing business in Sub-Saharan …

Violence against women (VAW) is widespread in East Africa, with almost half of married
women experiencing physical abuse. Those seeking to address this issue confront two …

A major impediment to understanding human-environment interactions is that data on social
systems are not collected in a way that is easily comparable to natural systems data. While …

Does religion influence political participation? This book takes up this pressing debate using
Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa as its empirical base to demonstrate that religious …

The present study assesses how governance affects information and communication
technology (ICT) at the global level contingent on macroeconomic policy factors such as …