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Decentralization has emerged as a popular strategy for reforming public services. But the outcomes of decentralization are often at odds with those envisaged, particularly as it concerns the functions of service-delivery organizations (SDOs). Among the most important aspects of decentralization...

This essay examines the evolution of welfare regimes in contemporary China and Viet Nam. Specifically, it examines how the degeneration of state-socialist regimes and the evolution of new political economies in their wake have shaped institutional arrangements governing the provision and payment...

This essay elaborates concepts and methods for the analysis of welfare regimes in a variety of historical settings. Motivated by an analysis of welfare regimes in the wake of state-socialism, the essay addresses a more general set of questions about the properties, determinants, and effects of...

The central claim of this essay is that the political economies in contemporary China and Viet Nam represent instances of a distinctive kind of political economy – or regime – that is best characterized as market-Leninist. In market-Leninist regimes market economic institutions and...