A5086074320- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Politics and Society in Latin America
- Urban Planning and Governance
- South African History and Culture
- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Housing Market and Economics
- Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
Princeton University
2023-2025
University of the Witwatersrand
2025
Princeton Public Schools
2024
Harvard University Press
2019-2021
Office of International Affairs
2018-2021
Harvard University
2018-2021
John Brown University
2017-2019
University of Gothenburg
2017
Boston College
2017
American University
2011
Despite receiving less attention than high-income countries, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experienced more 85% of global excess deaths during the first two years COVID-19 pandemic. Due to unprecedented speed scale pandemic, which placed large demands on government capacity, many LMICs relied civil society organizations (CSOs) assist in implementing response programs. Yet few studies have examined critical role CSOs played mitigating effects pandemic low resource settings. This...
This article examines ways in which transnational grassroots networks produce knowledge and learning that crosses borders to help cities explore solutions dilemmas of urban development. International development programmes often legitimise a narrow class professionals, advising donor agencies foundations, private investment institutions, governments other providers capital for developmental intervention through predominantly vertical hierarchy. Shack/Slum Dwellers International, network poor...
Over the last several decades, dozens of dictatorships have become democracies. Yet while each has held free and fair elections, they varied in extent to which their citizens realize ideal self-rule. Why do some democracies distribute power other withhold it? Existing research is suggestive, but its implications are ambiguous. Cross-national studies focused on democracy's formal dimensions, work substantive democracy case-based. We find that one most consistent powerful explanations...
Abstract How and in what sequence do social structures, contingent events, agents’ decisions combine over time to bring about a new populist right? To answer this question, we propose framework analyze processes spanning three levels of analysis: global political economy, national articulation, subnational geography. We challenge static theories that focus solely on the “supply demand” for populism, as well purely accounts “perfect storm.” Instead, argue across these link together causal...
This paper considers why the housing subsidy programme in South Africa has had so little impact on poverty reduction despite its scale and generous funding. It discusses how this was linked to government’s conception of housing, institutions involved who controlled funding flows for housing. Most government went contractors build new units “for poor”; it assumed that these would replace homes informal settlements poor developed themselves. Despite statements about commitment People’s Housing...
Studies of social movements generally focus on the mechanisms through which affect political will states. Much this research, in turn, implicitly assumes that state has capacity to realize decisions adopted as a result movement action. Focusing local governments young democracies, article examines whether and how capacities contribute movement-initiated policy change associated delivery sphere housing land use. It analyzes contrasting cases using paired "most-similar" comparison two...
Transitions to democracy promise equal political power. But ruptures carry no guarantee that can overcome the accumulated inequalities of history. In South Africa, transition shifted power from a racial minority in ways suggested an unusually high probability material change. This article analyzes limits public after democratic transitions. Why has post-Apartheid local state Johannesburg been unable achieve spatially inclusive distribution goods despite imperative for both spatial and fiscal...
Over the last several decades, dozens of dictatorships have become democracies. Yet while each has held free and fair elections, they varied in extent to which their citizens realize ideal self-rule. Why do some democracies distribute power other withhold it? Existing research is suggestive, but its implications are ambiguous. Cross-national studies focused on democracy’s formal dimensions, work substantive democracy case-based. We find that one most consistent powerful explanations...
In popular understandings, "corruption" is the essence of acting outside rational-legal authority.It also generally understood as "cultural" behavior, something that innate and structural-even immoveable.In this sense, process modernization, in which primacy authority comes to dominate "patrimonial" relations, one a culture corruption should wither away.Daniel Agbiboa's They Eat Our Sweat takes aim at view through theoretically important empirically grounded study country is, for some,...
Why are some cities more effective than others in distributing public goods? Local government interventions São Paulo, Brazil, have produced surprisingly redistribution of residential goods — housing and sanitation between 1989 2016. I use original interviews archival research for a comparative-historical analysis variation across time Paulo’s governance sanitation. argue that sequential configurations a) “embeddedness” the local state civil society b) “cohesion” institutional sphere state,...
Transitions to democracy promise equal political power. But ruptures carry no guarantee that can overcome the accumulated inequalities of history. In South Africa, transition shifted power from a racial minority in ways suggested an unusually high probability material change. This article analyzes limits public after democratic transitions. Why has post-Apartheid local state Johannesburg been unable achieve spatially inclusive distribution goods despite imperative for both spatial and fiscal...