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Crafting Institutions for Localized Aid
(2015-06-09)
Today, most development practitioners agree that “going local” should be the way to
deliver foreign aid. However, while this idea is widely embraced in principle,
turning it into action is the hard problem. After all, ...
Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-08-01)
Are Weberian bureaucracies a precondition for capitalist markets or is it the other way
around? According to the developmental school, state bureaucracies organized along
Weberian precepts is necessary for successful ...
Integrating Big Data and Thick Data to Transform Public Services Delivery
(2019-03-21)
Big data holds great promise for improving public services delivery and innovation in government, but they are not a panacea. Having lots of data can be overwhelming or have little utility if the data are “thin”—that is, ...
Counting Cadres: A Comparative View of the Size of China’s Public Employment
(The China Quarterly, 2012-09-01)
Is China’s public bureaucracy overstaffed? To answer this basic question
objectively, one needs to define public employment in the contemporary
Chinese context; survey data sources available to measure public employment;
and ...
Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited: Why "I-Paid-A-Bribe" Worked in India But Failed in China
(2014-10)
Authoritarian states restrain online activism not only through repression and censorship, but also by indirectly weakening the ability of netizens to self-govern and constructively engage the state. I demonstrate this ...
Co-optation & Clientelism: Nested Distributive Politics in China’s Single-Party Dictatorship
(2016-01-07)
What explains the persistent growth of public employment in reform-era
China despite repeated and forceful downsizing campaigns? Why do some provinces
retain more public employees and experience higher rates of bureaucratic ...