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Case Studies
Public Broadcasting in Ukraine: What Does it Take to Break Decades of Inertia and an Avalanche of Resistance?
Yaryna Klyuchkovska, Sophia Opatska, Andrew Rozhdestvenskyy and Igor Rozkladay
2017
On March 25, 2014 Zurab Alasania became the newly appointed Head of NTKU (National TV Company of Ukraine) and faced the challenges of creating a public broadcasting institution. It was a period in Ukrainian history when the Revolution of Dignity had just taken place, the Crimea had been annexed, and the situation in the country was very unstable. Parliament announced presidential elections for May of 2014. The creation of an independent public broadcaster had been mandated by the Council of Europe but had stalled for 10 years.
Case Studies
Building Hydropower Plants in Uganda: Who is the Best Partner?
Lin Le
2017
Uganda has long been plagued by chronic power shortages. Determined to boost the country’s economic growth, Ugandan leaders have decided to build two large-scale hydropower plants at Karuma (600MW) and Isimba (183 MW). Irene Muloni, the head of the nation’s Ministry of Energy and Minerals Development (MEMD), has two options for financing and building the hydropower facilities: either to build the dams as independent power projects (IPPs), or to accept Chinese financing and contract with Chinese construction companies.
Working Paper
Authoritarian Survival and Poverty Traps: Land Reform in Mexico
Alberto Díaz-Cayeros,
Beatriz Magaloni, Michael Albertus, Barry R. Weingast
CDDRL Working Papers, page(s): 52 ,
2017
This paper examines why governments in underdeveloped countries systematically pursue policies that prevent long-term economic growth. Focusing on the design and implementation of Mexico's massive land redistribution program, we argue that governments do so to improve their chances of political survival. Mexico’s incumbent PRI regime gave peasants communal property under a restrictive and inefficient property rights regime.
Working Paper
Caught in the Crossfire: The Geography of Extortion and Police Corruption in Mexico
Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Beatriz Magaloni, Vidal Romero
CDDRL Working Papers, page(s): 27 ,
2017
When Mexican President Felipe Caldrón took office in December 2006 he declared a war on the nation’s drug traffic organizations (Ríos and Shirk, 2011). Violence escalated as criminal organizations became increasingly fragmented and disputed their territories (Killebrew and Bernal, 2010; Beittel, 2011).
Working Paper
The Economic Costs of Drug-Trafficking Violence in Mexico
Gustavo Robles, Beatriz Magaloni, Gabriela Calderón
2017
The levels of violence in Mexico have dramatically increased in the last few years due to structural changes in the drug trafficking business. The increase in the number of drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) fighting over the control of territory and trafficking routes has resulted in a substantial increase in the rates of homicides and other crimes. This study evaluates the economic costs of drug-related violence.
Policy Brief
Impact Evaluation: Program Jóvenes con Porvenir
Beatriz Magaloni,
Beatriz Magaloni, Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Brenda Jarillo Rabling
International Crime and Violence Lab, page(s): 20 ,
2017
Jóvenes con Porvenir is a public-funded program run by the government of Zapopan. This pioneering policy initiative was designed and implemented in response to the major social and economic challenges affecting young people. The program offers scholarships to young men and women not enrolled in school, so they can attend vocational training courses regardless of their employment status.
Book
"Political Logic of Poverty Relief" Electoral Strategies and Social Policy in Mexico
Beatriz Magaloni, Federico Estévez, Federico Estévez
Cambridge Press, 2016 ,
2017
Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics. The particular design that social programs take is, to a large extent, determined by the existing institutional constraints and politicians' imperative to win elections. The "Political Logic of Poverty Relief" places elections and institutional design at the core of poverty alleviation. The authors develop a theory with applications to Mexico about how elections shape social programs aimed at aiding the poor.
Case Studies
To be "dam"-ed: Navigating Stakeholder Relations to Bring Energy to Africa with Inga 3
Kate Gasparro
2017
This case follows the development of the Inga 3, the third hydroelectric plant to be built on the Inga River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Inga 3, with a capacity of 3,000 MW, would provide clean energy to the continent and a next step for President Obama’s Power Africa Initiative.
Book
Architects of Occupation
Dayna L. Barnes
Cornell University Press ,
2017
The Allied occupation of Japan is remembered as the "good occupation." An American-led coalition successfully turned a militaristic enemy into a stable and democratic ally. Of course, the story was more complicated, but the occupation did forge one of the most enduring relationships in the postwar world. Recent events, from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan to protests over American bases in Japan to increasingly aggressive territorial disputes between Asian nations over islands in the Pacific, have brought attention back to the subject of the occupation of Japan.
Book
States in the Developing World
Miguel Centeno, Atul Kohli, Deborah J. Yashar, Dinsha Mistree
Cambridge University Press ,
2017
"What should states in the developing world do and how should they do it? How have states in the developing world addressed the challenges of promoting development, order, and inclusion? States in the developing world are supposed to build economies, control violence, and include the population. How they do so depends on historical origins and context as well as policy decisions.
Working Paper
Reassessing the Quality of Government in China
Francis Fukuyama, Margaret Boittin, Gregory Distelhorst
CDDRL Working Papers ,
2016
How should the quality of government be measured across disparate national contexts? This study develops a new approach using an original survey of Chinese civil servants and a comparison to the United States. We surveyed over 2,500 Chinese municipal officials on three organizational features of their bureaucracies: meritocracy, individual autonomy, and morale. They report greater meritocracy than U.S. federal employees in almost all American agencies. China's edge is smaller in autonomy and markedly smaller in morale. Differences between the U.S.
Journal Article
The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development in Medieval Europe
International Organization/Cambridge Core ,
2016
Working Paper
The Meaning and Limits of Freedom of Expression in Lebanon: Publications Court Jurisprudence on Freedom of Expression vs. Defamation
Dima Dabbous
CDDRL Working Papers ,
2016
Abstract
In light of the legal issues raised by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) trial (April to June 2015) against the Lebanese Al-Jadeed television on charges of contempt of court and obstruction of justice, the present paper seeks to assess the state of freedom of expression in Lebanon and the role played by the Lebanese judiciary in defining this right and delineating its limits, especially when it clashes with another right—in this case the right to protect one’s dignity in general, and the dignity of the judicial body in specific.
Book
"Political Logic of Poverty Relief" Electoral Strategies and Social Policy in Mexico
Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Beatriz Magaloni, Federico Estévez
Cambridge University Press, 2016 ,
2016
Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics. The particular design that social programs take is, to a large extent, determined by the existing institutional constraints and politicians' imperative to win elections. The "Political Logic of Poverty Relief" places elections and institutional design at the core of poverty alleviation. The authors develop a theory with applications to Mexico about how elections shape social programs aimed at aiding the poor.
Journal Article
How the Mexican Drug War Affects Kids and Schools? Evidence on Effects and Mechanisms
Brenda Jarillo Rabling, Beatriz Magaloni, Edgar Franco Vivanco, Gustavo Robles
International Journal of Educational Development ,
2016
In this paper published by the International Journal of Educational Development, we investigate the impact of drug-related violence in Mexico on academic achievement. We use panel of elementary and lower secondary schools and locality-level firearm homicides from 2006 to 2011. We rely on school fixed-effects models to estimate the impact on math test scores of turf war exposure and turf war persistence (e.g. months of exposure) during the academic year. According to the results, both exposure and persistence of criminal violence reduces math test scores.
Case Studies
El Salvador’s La Unión Port: Foundering in a Sea of Politics
Julia Oliver
2016
Guillermo López Suárez, the new head of El Salvador’s port authority, faces a dilemma: how to get the brand new La Unión port running. Plans made by the previous, right-wing government to find a private operator for the $187 million port had stalled in the National Assembly. In addition, a number of expensive technical problems had become clear over the course of the port’s construction. To make matters worse, the current administration faced opposition to privatization of the port from within its own party, which had radical Marxist elements.
Working Paper
Power from Doing Nothing: Why Some Government Agencies Start with Autonomy
Dinsha Mistree,
Dinsha Mistree
CDDRL Working Papers ,
2016
Abstract
Why do some government agencies start with more autonomy than others? Conventional studies of autonomy at genesis are few and far between, with most of this sparse literature focusing on why a single founder—usually a politician—unilaterally chooses to delegate power to the new agency. In this article, I suggest that the decision to bestow autonomy to a new agency is not always made by a single founder alone. Instead, politicians must sometimes rely upon other actors to create a new government agency.
Working Paper
Has The Top Two Primary Elected More Moderates?
Eric McGhee, Boris Shor
CDDRL Working Papers ,
2016
Abstract
The Top Two primary is one of the most interesting and closely-watched political reforms in the United States in recent years. This radically open primary system removes much of the formal role for parties in the primary election and even allows for two candidates of the same party to face each other in the fall. An important goal of this reform has been to elect more moderate candidates to public office.
Journal Article
How the Mexican Drug War Affects Kids and Schools? Evidence on Effects and Mechanisms
Brenda Jarillo Rabling,
Brenda Jarillo Rabling, Beatriz Magaloni, Edgar Franco Vivanco, Gustavo Robles
International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 51, page(s): 12 ,
2016
In this paper published by the International Journal of Educational Development, we investigate the impact of drug-related violence in Mexico on academic achievement.
Working Paper
Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development
Yuen Yuen Ang
CDDRL Working Papers ,
2016
Abstract
Are Weberian bureaucracies a precondition for capitalist markets or is it the other way around? According to the developmental school, state bureaucracies organized along Weberian precepts is necessary for successful state-led growth. Yet some level of economic wealth also appears to be necessary for achieving such desirable institutions.
Case Studies
Choosing China: Ghana's $3 Billion Loan Decision
Lucas Beard
2016
This case examines the decision process concerning the 2011 $3 billion loan proposal from the China Development Bank (CDB) to the Government of Ghana. The Ghanaian Parliament chose to accept the Master Facility Agreement in December 2011. The loan has several conditions detractors identified that could negatively impact Ghana’s future oil revenues and debt structure.
Case Studies
New Delhi Electricity
Leah Nosal
2016
By the late 1990s, decades of rural migration and population growth in New Delhi, India had caused enormous strain on public services and infrastructure. A public utility company, the Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB), managed the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in this burgeoning megacity. Like many other state electricity boards (SEBs) across India, the DVB reported consistent financial losses due to rampant theft, under-billing, and difficulty collecting payments.
Book
Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy
Larry Diamond,
Marc Plattner, Christopher Walker, Larry Diamond
Johns Hopkins University Press ,
2016
About the Book
Over the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena. Leading authoritarian countries—including China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela—have developed new tools and strategies to contain the spread of democracy and challenge the liberal international political order.
Case Studies
Development of Peru's Asparagus Industry
Jessie Bullock
2016
The asparagus industry in Ica, Peru exports asparagus across the world and is the economic engine of the region. The rapid expansion of the region, however, has caused a water shortage and both groundwater and aboveground water sources are being depleted faster than they are being replenished.
Working Paper
Reflections on Chinese Governance
Francis Fukuyama,
Francis Fukuyama
CDDRL Working Papers ,
2016
Abstract
I am very happy to have the opportunity to revisit my ideas about Chinese governance, and to offer some speculations about its future.