Bücher der Reihe Elements in the Politics of Development

Outlines the source of disagreement about a resource curse, suggests strategies to address them, and shows how they produce insights about the politics of resource wealth.

Drawing on a range of country examples, Undocumented Nationals: Between Statelessness and Citizenship calls attention to and analyses the plight of people who cannot exercise full citizenship due to evidentiary deficiencies.

Governments and international organizations have promoted community participation in public health since the late 1970s. We lack comparative studies of these participatory institutions in public health. This Element proposes a conceptualization of programmatic participation and distinguishes between two types, monitoring and policy-making.

This Element challenges existing models and introduces an alternative, supply-side, and state-centered theory of coercive distribution. It illustrates the patterns, timing, and breadth of coercive distribution using quantitative evidence and historical case studies. Distribution is found to be one of coercion's most effective expressions.