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 … components, while the steps to achieving good governance remain subject to debate and uncertainty. In response to this challenge …

legitimacy and political leadership; and governance and state capacity. Overall, the selected indicators point to similar trends …

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 …

-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 …

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 …