Listening and Responding to Bangladesh’s Citizens During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This report summarizes findings from research designed to assess how and how effectively different levels of the Bangladesh government listened…
Theme: Transparency & Open Government
Governance Reform and Public Service Provision: Institutional Resilience and State-Society Synergy
This brief review of institutionally resilient participatory oversight reforms in four countries spotlights how hybrid, collaborative governance can work in…
Building Worker Power in Global Supply Chains: Lessons from Apparel, Cocoa, and Seafood
This working paper is about the campaigners and worker organizers in the global South and North who have challenged the…
Pathways Towards Power Shifts: State-Society Synergy
Policy reformers often make bold promises to improve government responsiveness to citizen demands. Yet such proclaimed openings from above often…
Activating Spaces, Scaling Up Voices: Community-based Monitoring and Planning of Health Services in Maharashtra, India
From 2007, the Indian government’s National Health Mission (NHM) supported civil society networks to carry out large-scale participatory monitoring to…
Sandwich Strategies Explained: Expanding Citizen Action
Policy reformers often make bold promises to improve government responsiveness to citizen demands. Such proclamations often fall short, get diverted,…
Willingness of Zambians to sacrifice democratic principles during a pandemic: The case of COVID-19
What is the impact of a pandemic on citizens’ willingness to sacrifice democratic principles? Using the novel COVID-19 pandemic as…
Does local infrastructure determine trust in local government councils?
The relationship between infrastructure and trust in local government is under-researched yet relevant for many countries. This paper examines how…
Keeping tabs? Perceptions of relative deprivation and political trust in Africa
What are the implications of economic inequality for trust in government and state institutions? Political trust performs important functions in…
Remittances and corruption perceptions in Africa
The relationship between remittances and corruption is contested. For some authors, external income endows individuals with financial buffers, which undermine…