Disasters can be good for incumbent governments. Amidst an emergency, budgets can be
revised and reallocated in a hurry, framing the government as a 'saviour,'issuing contracts to …

This paper investigates the twists and turns that characterise the political reactions of some
'left-behind'places. Offering a situated, context-sensitive and temporal analysis of Turkey's …

Based on the natural resource-based view theory, firms with improved environmental
performance will have higher financial performance. Conversely, the neo-classical …

Despite a large body of work on the impacts of institutions on subnational growth and
development, economic geographers have, in the last decades, frequently overlooked the …

Amid escalating global concerns surrounding climate change, the transportation sector has
garnered the attention of stakeholders. Double-hurdle censored models were employed in …

How do electoral incentives and institutional constraints vary as democracies consolidate?
Are incumbents more inclined to behave opportunistically during transitions, or when the …

This article examines business–politics ties during a shift from multi-party politics to
competitive-authoritarian rule in Turkey. We conducted a longitudinal investigation of the …

This article examines whether transfers to local governments in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
and Chile have been allocated to obtain electoral advantage. A large panel data set and …

The paper argues that governing parties can use privatization as a political discipline
mechanism to reward core constituents and swing voters by diverting unwanted social and …

Even though a wide range of the literature explores how governments target public goods
strategically, only a handful of papers examine whether these electorally motivated …