In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the potential of transparency—the
provision of information to the public—to improve governance in both developed and …

Social capital has not merely risen as a social scientific term in the scholarly literature; it has
become routinized into everyday conversation and policy discourse across an …

In January 2014, the government of Indonesia issued Law 6/2014 on Villages, primarily to
address weaknesses in the decentralisation paradigm by improving governance …

The development discourse has long been dominated by best practices prescriptions for
reform, but these are not a useful way of responding to the governance ambiguities of the …

This article presents a theoretical approach for studying the coordination of futures. Building
off theories of temporality and action, the authors map three different modes of future making …

Rising standards for accurately inferring the impact of development projects has not been
matched by equivalently rigorous procedures for guiding decisions about whether and how …

This article presents constitutionality as a new approach for analyzing bottom-up institution-
building processes emphasizing local perceptions and local agency in common pool …

China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional donors like the World
Bank (WB). While some see this mostly as a chance, Chinese aid specifically and aid in …

Deliberation is the process by which a group of people, each with equal voice, can-via a
process of discussion and debate-reach an agreement. Deliberation and Development …

Conventional international development project approaches to enable participation of the
excluded often fall short of building countervailing power, which is key for accountability …