This book originated in a conference on "Liberation Technology in Authoritarian Regimes" held at Stanford University in Oct.

(excerpt) Social policy in Latin America has traditionally failed to benefit the poor.

A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision.

Proponents of oil-led development believe that countries lucky enough to have "black gold" can base their development on this resource.

This paper was discussed at the Global Justice workshop on October 20, 2006.Abstract of Richard Locke's "Beyond Corporate Codes of Conduct: Work Organization and Labor Standards in Two Mexican...

The wave of democratic electoral revolutions in the Eastern Europe and post-Communist Eurasia revived one of the most appealing and at the same time disputable arguments in the theory of...

The authors examine the global expansion of higher educational enrollments over the 20th century. Rates of growth accelerated in virtually all countries after 1960.

In the course of comparative research and consulting work, one comes across many examples of local policies and preferences that clearly reflect worldwide fashions.

This collection of essays is the result of a conference convened at Princeton University marking the ten year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Synthesizing decades of sociological work at Stanford University on the development of the modern nation-state system since World War II, contributors argue that striking similarities increasingly...