success in spreading and embedding governance norms, ranging across revenue transparency, contract disclosure, supply chain …The governance of natural resource wealth is widely considered to constitute a key determinant in whether the … extraction of natural resources proves to be a blessing or a curse. What is meant by governance can span a wide range of …

-profit organizations, this paper examines the social mechanisms used to ensure accountability within the challenging environments where the … organizations operate. We find that Syrian diaspora organizations benefit from informal social accountability mechanisms that derive … from individuals' social network ties. Personal, social forms of accountability are particularly valuable to these …

/association; political participation; accountability and transparency; political instability and violence, and external relations; state … legitimacy and political leadership; and governance and state capacity. Overall, the selected indicators point to similar trends …

The paper reviews the debate about transparency in extractive industry commodities trade. It examines the obstacles to … improved transparency. A critical review of the experience with estimating losses from a lack of transparency concludes that … important transparency and responsible sourcing initiatives are reviewed. The initiatives appear to have had some positive …

('hand-me-down assets') is reducing transparency on emissions and emissionsreducing investments. Measuring emissions using …

, we study the impact of the introduction of a policy in the UK intended to increase transparency and eliminate the …

-building processes. This paper explores one such dynamics-the forms of governance exercised by armed groups during wartime-and proposes a … theoretical framework outlining how forms of wartime governance affect trajectories of state-building in the aftermath of civil … governance: how armed groups build institutional capacity in wartime and the characteristics of wartime civilian rule by armed …

In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper … explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to 'wartime governance' on social and political behaviour. We … operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and practices of a ruling actor. Building on detailed ethnographic and …

quality of governance in an unbalanced panel data set consisting of all countries in the world (217) using data from 1980 to … strong effect over time whereby an increase in government revenue leads to a steady improvement in governance. These findings … suggest an important virtuous circle between government revenue and governance, indicating that additional government revenue …