Africa is urbanising rapidly and is facing enormous urban challenges, such as the growth of
slums and increasing inequality. Secondary cities, with their smaller economies and less …

This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts
about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors …

A prominent body of scholarship views revenue extraction by the state as a catalyst for the
creation of representative institutions. States in the developing world, however, extract less …

Many resource-strapped developing country governments seek international aid, but when
that assistance is channeled through domestic civil society, it can threaten their political …

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains
prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political …

The conventional wisdom in the literature on aid allocation suggests that donors utilize
bilateral aid as a tool to buy influence in the aid-receiving country. Those who conclude that …

In response to corruption and inefficient state institutions in recipient countries, some foreign
aid donors outsource the delivery of aid to nonstate development actors. Other donor …

Democracy and women's rights are integrally “bundled” by the international community. This
means that dictatorships can signal adherence to international norms by demonstrating …

Using repeated cross-sectional survey data, we analyze whether China's growing economic
engagement in Latin America has an effect on citizens' perceptions of China within 18 Latin …

Foreign aid donors make themselves visible as the funders of development projects to
improve citizen attitudes abroad. Do target populations receive these political …