Global pandemics are a serious concern for developing countries, perhaps particularly
when the same pandemic also affects donors of development aid. During crises at home …

Why do some donor governments pursue international development through recipient
governments, while others bypass such local authorities? Weaving together scholarship in …

Survey data are commonly cited as evidence of widespread misperceptions and
misinformed beliefs. This paper shows that surveys generally fail to identify the firm, deep …

Political opponents are often divided not only in their attitudes (ie, ideological polarization)
and their feelings toward each other (ie, affective polarization), but also in their factual …

The global COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges to the economy, politics and public health
systems of developed and developing countries alike. However, the latter are less well …

Many environmental policies are characterized by long time horizons (eg, multiple
generations) and high geographic dispersion (eg, multiple countries). In this study, we use …

Pundits, development practitioners, and scholars worry that rising populism and
international disengagement in developed countries have negative consequences on …

Each year, millions of people die from poverty-related causes. In this groundbreaking and
thought-provoking book, Gwilym David Blunt argues that the only people who will end this …

Many foreign aid donors brand development interventions. How do citizens in the donor
country react to seeing this branding in action? We test the proposition that citizens will …

Existing measures of aid transparency overwhelmingly focus on how much information
donor agencies are willing to share with the international donor community, overlooking that …