capitalism in the same period. We review the historical evolution of Japanese corporate governance over the last three decades …Japanese firms have historically followed a country-specific model of corporate governance. Yet, Japan has had to adapt … board of directors monitoring. By doing this, we investigate to what extent specific Japanese corporate governance features …

development policy. This paper focuses on a core topic in development policy: governance. It aims to address two key questions: (1 …In recent years, randomized controlled trials have become increasingly popular in the social sciences. In development …) 'what have the main contributions of randomized controlled trials been to the study of governance?' and (2) 'what could be …

general questions concerning the regional and global waxing and waning of domestic regime types. Evolution's claims about the … co-evolution and niche construction are crucial: an agent may modify its environment such that one or more traits of that … agent enjoy a greater reproductive advantage. Agency, then, may be not an escape from evolution but a participation in co-evolution …

traced back to changing institutional, economic, and geopolitical contexts. (3) Evolution in the global scientific …