The study of street-level bureaucracy has been dominated by research from the Global
North. Mainstream conceptualizations are, therefore, based on observations from …

What state capacity is and how to strengthen it remain open questions, as the underlying
incentives of the state, its citizens, and its agents align in some areas of state activity and …

Why do governments tolerate the violation of their own laws and regulations? Conventional
wisdom is that governments cannot enforce their laws. Forbearance as Redistribution …

This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent
conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy …

Particularly in develo** countries, there is a gap between written law and behavior.
Comparative research emphasizes that laws go unenforced due to resource constraints or …

In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police
forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This …

When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to
do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's …

Organizational membership is one of the strongest, yet overlooked, predictors of vote buying
across Latin America. We argue that this relationship is driven by the fact that politicians …

Rapid urbanization and political liberalization is changing the nature of African politics and
societies. This book develops a framework for the study of democracy and development that …

Political decentralization is often argued to strengthen political accountability by bringing
government closer to the people. Social and civic institutions at the local level, such as …