Books in the Elements in the Politics of Development series

This Element explores the association between political democracy and population health. It reviews the rise of scholarly interest in the association, evaluates alternative indicators of democracy and population health.

This Element challenges existing models and introduces an alternative, supply-side, and state-centered theory of coercive distribution. It illustrates the patterns, timing, and breadth of coercive distribution using quantitative evidence and historical case studies. Distribution is found to be one of coercion's most effective expressions.

Governments and international organizations have promoted community participation in public health since the late 1970s. We lack comparative studies of these participatory institutions in public health. This Element proposes a conceptualization of programmatic participation and distinguishes between two types, monitoring and policy-making.

Drawing on a range of country examples, Undocumented Nationals: Between Statelessness and Citizenship calls attention to and analyses the plight of people who cannot exercise full citizenship due to evidentiary deficiencies.

Outlines the source of disagreement about a resource curse, suggests strategies to address them, and shows how they produce insights about the politics of resource wealth.