Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its
election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward …

India's urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to local public goods and
services-paved roads, piped water, trash removal, sewers, and streetlights. Why are some …

Clientelistic vote mobilization is a prominent electoral strategy in many of the world's
democracies and electoral authoritarian regimes. Yet the comparative study of this practice …

A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically
unequal society India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people …

Kowloon Walled City (KWC), formerly the world's most densely populated place, is an
example of urban density and self-organization in opposition to current urban developments …

This article compares the role of brokers in mediating access to public services in India and
Indonesia. Brokered state-citizen interaction is generally considered to be detrimental to …

The informal provision of benefits to the poor in exchange for political support, known as
clientelism, often provides access to land and services for the urban poor in informal …

Mumbai, India's most populous city, faces rising temperatures, flooding, and pollution.
Climate change is an urgent concern, yet strong disagreements divide the city's population …

This paper uses newly released data on political behaviour and urban growth to identify, for
the first time, a statistical correlation between clientelism (the informal provision of benefits …

Susceptibility in Development offers a novel approach to understanding power in
development through theories of affect and emotion. Development agents-people tasked …