... from a 2018 systematic national survey of about 150 Pakistani politicians to investigate PPFs’ support for key democratic institutions and practices. We find that compared to non-PPFs, Pakistani PPFs are significantly more supportive of instrumentally useful institutions and practices such as free...

... significantly affected attempts at aid delivery. Such dangers need to be recognized and addressed at the outset in internationally supported transitions © 2018 by The Regents of the University of California 2018 Neopatrimonialism aid state institutions corruption WILLIAM MALEY Institutional...

...Tomohito Shinoda With the establishment of the DPJ government, Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio introduced a series of institutional changes in order to transform the existing bureaucracy-controlled government and to establish political leadership. These changes, however, created instability...

...Patrick McEachern I argue that North Korean politics is becoming pluralized. Policy outcomes are increasingly shaped by the interaction of the Cabinet, party, and military. Systematic content analysis of domestic articles and speeches suggests that policy preferences vary by institution. Second...