The Politics of Development: Institutions, Accountability, and Distribution
Governance lies at the heart of development. Institutional capacity and the rule of law are central to outcomes ranging from post-conflict reconstruction to public goods and service provision. In this article collection, we pull together research recently published by political scientists in Journal of Development studies that has focused on understanding governance in low- and middle income countries. In some of the research, scholars focus on institutions as an independent variable, examining such things as regime type, accountability, transparency, laws, regulatory enforcement, and minority business rights. In other research, institutions of accountability, perceptions of government institutions and citizenship, corruption, legal empowerment, or governance indicators are the outcomes of interest. Some articles engage questions about how regime type, corruption or accountability mechanisms affect service provision outcomes, while others attempt to understand how or why minorities, the poor, or ex-combatants are disadvantaged and how to improve their situations. Editors of JDS present these papers together to highlight important and interesting research by political scientists published in the recent past. We seek novel theoretical and empirical contributions from the discipline; interested authors may wish to address their submissions toward manager editors, Emmanuel Teitelbaum or Jennifer N. Brass.
Edited by
Jennifer N. Brass(Indiana University)
Emmanuel Teitelbaum(The George Washington University)