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Stabbed in the back?: Mandated political representation and murdersThis study provides the first country-wide research evidence that an affirmative action policy may induce a backlash. I exploit the timing of the implementation of castebased electoral quotas across and within the states of India...
Caste Crime Equality and inequalityJournal Article
How the cases you choose affect the answers you get, revisitedExternal validity is a major challenge for experimental research...
Experiments Experimental design Political scienceBook Chapter
The politics of promoting social protection in Uganda: A comparative analysis of social cash transfers and social health insuranceFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Political science Social conditions Transfer paymentsBook Chapter
Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge ProgrammeFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Economic policy Political science Social conditionsWorking Paper
The politics of promoting social cash transfers in UgandaIn 2015 the Government of Uganda agreed to start rolling out a social pension programme, and increasing its own contribution to it...
Political science Social conditions Transfer paymentsWorking Paper
Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge ProgrammeThis paper examines the political economy of Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme, concluding that strong government commitment to the programme has been shaped by the specific characteristics of the political settlement that was established...
Economic policy Political science Social conditionsWorking Paper
Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castesMandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women...
Caste Crime Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
The political economy of energy transitions and thermal energy poverty: Comparing the residential LPG sectors in Indonesia and South AfricaIndonesia and South Africa are both trying address energy poverty through subsidized energy provision...
Gas utilities Political science PovertyWorking Paper
Institutional differences across resource-based economiesTo predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies...
Economic growth Economics Political scienceWorking Paper
Governing clean energy transitions in China and India: A comparative political economy analysisChina and India will have to radically transform their electric power systems in order to decouple economic growth from unsustainable resource consumption...
Economic growth Environmental policy Political scienceWorking Paper
Border adjustment mechanisms: Elements for economic, legal, and political analysisThis paper examines, from a multidisciplinary perspective, plausible hypotheses for implementation of border carbon adjustment mechanisms, seen as a complement to strong environmental regulation...
Environmental justice International trade Political scienceWorking Paper
The political economy of energy innovationThis paper empirically investigates the effects of environmental policy, institutions, political orientation, and lobbying on energy innovation and finds that they significantly affect the incentives to innovate and create cleaner energy efficient te...
Environmental policy Political science Renewable energyWorking Paper
Political economy of Nigerian power sector reformThe Nigerian power sector reform is necessitated by the chronic poor performance of the sector and has as its compass the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act and the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform 2010...
Political science Economic power PrivatizationWorking Paper
Smoothing food price trends in Nigeria: Political economy issues and policy vistasThis study reviews the political economy issues surrounding the 2008 food crisis in Nigeria; the lessons learned from management of the crisis; analyses the performance of policies aimed at stabilizing prices; and proffers policy measures for prevent...
Economic policy Food industry and trade Political scienceProject
The politics of group-based inequalities - measurement, implications, and possibilities for change
Theme: Inclusion
Inclusion Inequality Horizontal inequalityWorking Paper
South Africa’s Emerging Black Middle Class: A Harbinger of Political Change?South Africa has seen a significant increase in the size of the black middle class in the post-apartheid period, but the attitudinal consequences of indicators of the middle class, as of 2011, are inconsistent and modest in size...
Democracy Household survey Income