El clientelismo en Paraguay es generalizado y socialmente aceptado tanto por los políticos
como por la ciudadanía, pero relativamente poco estudiado por la literatura comparada …

Despite considerable literature exploring Brazil's participatory management, less academic
attention focuses on Brazil's public policy councils (conselhos gestores de políticas …

How do citizens hold local politicians accountable? I argue that citizens, especially through
neighborhood associations, can use bloc voting as a bottom-up, grassroots strategy to …

Using the case of Pakistan, this article explores the distribution and politics of public goods
provision in urban slums. Across slums, we find that public goods are mainly provided to …

Abstract Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has explored human–soil relations, emphasising the
political dimensions of environmental degradation in and through urbanisation. However …

In many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics
undermines the effectiveness of urban planning. Politicians have incentives to ignore formal …

Brazil is criticised for breaching international norms on the treatment of prisoners. Its
common prison system is overcrowded and understaffed. Yet, Brazilian prisons are not so …

In the social sciences, informality is regularly discussed as a territory:'the informal city'.
However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, precarious informal workers gained attention as …

Debates on informality have been mainly structured along dichotomous formal-informal,
regular-irregular, or legalillegal lines, where government and the law equate to formality …

Using the case of Pakistan, this article explores the distribution and politics of public goods
provision in urban slums. Across slums, we find that public goods are mainly provided to …