Decentralised Governance: Crafting Effective Democracies Around the World
This volume brings together a new generation of political economy studies that explore what factors can contribute to creating better local government, and to what effect, blending theoretical insights with … Continue reading
Informality, culture and governance in the global South
This paper provides an epistemological critique of informality by focusing on cultural governance in two cities of the global South, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Dakar, Senegal. Aiming to enrich … Continue reading
Inequality, good governance, and endemic corruption
Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a … Continue reading
Beyond neoliberalism: resilience, the new art of governing complexity
David Chandler – Resilience, as a framework informing governance, relies on an ontology of emergent complexity. This article analyses how complexity operates not only as a critique of liberal modes of … Continue reading
Data-Driven Regulation and Governance in Smart Cities
This paper discusses the concept of data-driven regulation and governance in the context of smart cities by describing how these urban centres harness these technologies to collect and process information … Continue reading
A government perspective: Tech Trends 2017
Macro forces—such as digital, analytics, cloud, core modernization, and the changing role of IT—are at the heart of the technology trends that are fueling innovation and growth in both the … Continue reading
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