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Informality and Politics in the Global South: Three Perspectives
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 1386-1390
ISSN: 1541-0986
Informality is often studied by scholars of urban studies but has received comparatively little attention by political scientists. This is surprising given the fact that large portions of the world's population live, work, or transfer funds informally. The conventional wisdom is that the informal economy—the portion of the economy operating outside the regulatory reach of the state—is not very political because informal sector workers are relatively atomized and find collective action to be costly. The three books reviewed here, however, demonstrate that the informal sector is not only characterized by important forms of political organization but also affects politics within government institutions—and can even contribute to regime downfall. Calla Hummel's Why Informal Workers Organize and Shelby Grossman's Politics of Order in Informal Markets examine organization among informal sector workers, with Hummel probing the circumstances under which organization occurs and Grossman when such organizations are effective. In Black Markets and Militants, Medani takes the opposite perspective, examining how informal financial flows and networks affect state regulatory capacity. These three books marshal significant amounts of original data, pointing to how future research on these important dynamics can be conducted.
Cities and Politics in the Developing World
In: Annual review of political science, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 115-133
ISSN: 1545-1577
The last 20 years have witnessed an impressive outpouring of comparative politics research examining urban politics in the developing world. This research advances our understanding of phenomena such as clientelism, law and order, and local public goods provision. Scholarship could be strengthened, however, through more careful attention to how the urban setting of this research affects the politics examined. This article proposes two distinct ways in which urban politics can be conceptualized: politics taking place in urban agglomerations, characterized by large, diverse populations settled at high densities; or politics taking place within the boundaries of city jurisdictions, possessing legal powers and responsibilities distinct from those at other tiers of government or in rural areas. Adopting either of these conceptualizations illuminates new avenues for empirical work, theoretical innovation, and improved measurement. This article also shows that recent scholarship has neglected important, and fundamentally political, topics such as urban political economy, land markets, and environmental harms. Engaging with these areas would allow political scientists to revisit classic questions regarding the institutional influences on economic growth, the politics of redistribution, and the determinants of collective action.
Cities and Politics in the Developing World
In: Annual Review of Political Science, Band 21, S. 115-133
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Home Court Advantage: Investor Type and Contractual Resilience in the Argentine Water Sector
In: Politics & society, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 107-132
ISSN: 1552-7514
A large body of scholarship in political economy suggests economic growth, and foreign direct investment in regulated industries in particular, is more likely to occur when formal institutions allow states to provide credible commitments regarding the security of property rights. In contrast, this article argues that we must instead examine differences in firm organizational structure and embeddedness to explain variation in the resilience of privatization contracts in weak institutional environments. Domestic investors—or, if contracts are granted at the subnational level, domestic investors with diverse local holdings—work most effectively in the developing world. Domestic investors are better able to negotiate mutually beneficial adaptations to their formal contracts with host governments because they can draw on informal contractual supports that derive from cross-sector diversification and embeddedness in the market. This article finds strong support for this argument through an analysis of fourteen water privatization contracts in Argentina.
Home Court Advantage: Investor Type and Contractual Resilience in the Argentine Water Sector
In: Politics & society, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 107-132
ISSN: 0032-3292
The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation – Edited by Matthias Krause
In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 365-368
ISSN: 1468-0491
The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation
In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration and institutions, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 365-368
ISSN: 0952-1895
Pathways for redistribution: privatisation, regulation and incentives for pro-poor investment in the Argentine water sector
In: International journal of public policy: IJPP, Band 4, Heft 1/2, S. 51
ISSN: 1740-0619
City Size and Public Service Access: Evidence from Brazil and Indonesia
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 811-830
ISSN: 1541-0986
Most global population growth over the next two decades is projected to occur in small- and medium-sized cities in low- and middle-income countries. Expectations derived from the literature on fiscal federalism suggest that this is a cause for concern, as larger cities are thought to deliver public goods more effectively than smaller ones owing to economics of scale. Drawing on detailed cross-sectional data from Brazil and Indonesia, we show that smaller municipalities tend to possess more basic public health clinics and schools per capita, scattered throughout their territory, than larger cities. We theorize that the greater prevalence of such facilities in small cities reflects a relative lack of non-state alternatives, fewer concerns regarding "urban" problems faced in larger cities, and politicians' greater ability to secure and claim credit for such facilities. We illustrate the logic of this argument in case studies of otherwise-similar cities of different sizes in Brazil, and with shadow cases from Indonesia. Our analysis underscores how jurisdiction size and non-state service provision can affect government services.
The Case for Public Policy Expertise in Political Science
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 476-480
ISSN: 1537-5935
ABSTRACTThe politics of public policy is a vibrant research area increasingly at the forefront of intellectual innovations in the discipline. We argue that political scientists are best positioned to undertake research on the politics of public policy when they possess expertise in particular policy areas. Policy expertise positions scholars to conduct theoretically innovative work and to ensure that empirical research reflects the reality they aim to analyze. It also confers important practical advantages, such as access to a significant number of academic positions and major sources of research funding not otherwise available to political scientists. Perhaps most importantly, scholars with policy expertise are equipped to defend the value of political science degrees and research in the public sphere.
The Case for Public Policy Expertise in Political Science
ABSTRACTThe politics of public policy is a vibrant research area increasingly at the forefront of intellectual innovations in the discipline. We argue that political scientists are best positioned to undertake research on the politics of public policy when they possess expertise in particular policy areas. Policy expertise positions scholars to conduct theoretically innovative work and to ensure that empirical research reflects the reality they aim to analyze. It also confers important practical advantages, such as access to a significant number of academic positions and major sources of research funding not otherwise available to political scientists. Perhaps most importantly, scholars with policy expertise are equipped to defend the value of political science degrees and research in the public sphere.
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Blame Avoidance and Policy Stability in Developing Democracies: The Politics of Public Security in Buenos Aires
In: Comparative politics, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 23-46
ISSN: 2151-6227
Blame avoidance and policy stability in developing democracies: the politics of public security in Buenos Aires
In: Comparative politics, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 23-42
ISSN: 0010-4159
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Can Developing Countries Both Decentralize and Depoliticize Urban Water Services? Evaluating the Legacy of the 1990s Reform Wave
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 64, S. 621-641