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Paradise Islands? Island States and the Provision of Environmental Goods
(2013-11)
Island states have been shown to trump continental states on collective action-related outcomes, such as democracy and institutional quality. The argument tested in this article contends that the same logic might apply to ...
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
(2021-03)
Rulers of weak states face a predicament. They lack capacity to monitor crime and need citizens to partake in intelligence-sharing. Yet, agents of such authorities are seldom trusted, raising doubts about whether locals ...
Democracy and Economic Development
(2013-02)
Is democracy favorable or adverse for the environment? While some studies find democracy to increase the likelihood of achieving sustainable development, others propose that democracy rather has negative effects on the ...
Drought and Trust
(2023-04)
Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or
negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect
political trust in the context of Africa. We link ...