Governance characteristics and policy relevance of informal social protection services in Ethiopia -- Governance of non-state social protection services in Ghana: communication as accountability mechanisms in mutual aid organisations in Wassa -- Social protection and citizenship rights of...

State-building is a central tenet of many current development efforts. This primacy of the state rests on a global normative script that emphasizes the modern state's role in providing collective goods and services from security to education to health. We analyze state performance in six...

This article develops a reason-based social foundation of new forms of authority, which often are liquid and sectorally limited. The recognition of authority hinges, in this view, on reflexive actors who are aware of their own limits of rationality regarding the lack of either information or a...