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Humanitarian Nationalism During Autocratic Disaster Governance: The Politicization of the Earthquake Response in Türkiye. 专制灾害治理中的人道主义民族主义：台湾地震反应的政治化。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09454-y

Cristiana Bellini, Melanie Sauter

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Zakat, Non-state Welfare Provision and Redistribution in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic. Zakat：危机时期的非国家福利提供和再分配：来自Covid-19大流行的证据。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-26 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09447-x

Max Gallien, Umair Javed, Vanessa van den Boogaard

{"title":"Zakat, Non-state Welfare Provision and Redistribution in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Max Gallien, Umair Javed, Vanessa van den Boogaard","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09447-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12116-024-09447-x","url":null,"abstract":"Around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic drew attention to state social protection and its limitations. Less attention has been paid to what is likely the world's largest system of predominantly non-state welfare provision: zakat, an annual Islamic obligatory payment of a percentage of productive wealth to the poor and other eligible recipients. We explore how states and citizens engage with zakat during crises through a case study of the Covid-19 pandemic in Pakistan, Egypt, and Morocco, drawing on novel and nationally representative survey data of 5484 respondents across the three countries. While we may expect that citizens may be less motivated to pay zakat in times of personal economic hardship, we find that a large majority of the general population and of zakat contributors perceives zakat as particularly important in the Covid context. We show that while zakat may play an important role in non-state social welfare provision supplementing state social protection and redistribution in times of crisis, state attempts to harness it are often ineffective. However, while we find that higher income individuals are more likely to pay zakat, even only among those that are eligible, there are potentially negative equity impacts given the flat rate at which it is levied and the fact that people tend to give through personal networks.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"61 1","pages":"34-60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13090261/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147723948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Between God and Nation: The Colonial Origins of Democracy Support in British Africa. 上帝与国家之间：英属非洲支持民主的殖民起源。

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-06 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09450-2

Bastian Becker, Dean Dulay

{"title":"Between God and Nation: The Colonial Origins of Democracy Support in British Africa.","authors":"Bastian Becker, Dean Dulay","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09450-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12116-024-09450-2","url":null,"abstract":"Popular support is important to the emergence and survival of democracy. In this paper, we study how church-state relations in former British Africa shaped long-run support for democracy. We argue that shared national identity was the basis for incentive alignment, facilitating cooperation over educational policy between church and state and engendering long-run support for democracy. Employing geospatial analyses of historical mission data and contemporary social survey data from 19 former British African colonies, we find that areas with missions originating from Britain exhibit better educational outcomes and greater support for democracy than areas that had non-British missions. Furthermore, areas with British Protestant missions show greater support for democracy than British Catholic missions, suggesting that Protestantism supplements the benefits of shared nationhood between mission and state. Our findings add nuance to scholarship on the colonial origins of democracy by highlighting the interdependent legacies of church and state.Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12116-024-09450-2.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"61 1","pages":"136-167"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13090240/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reproductive Justice for Adolescent Migrant Girls in the Post-ICPD Era: A Critical Analysis of Contraceptive Care for Venezuelan Girls in Colombia. 后人发会议时代移徙少女的生殖正义：对哥伦比亚委内瑞拉女孩避孕护理的批判性分析。

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-025-09474-2

Hannah Louise Hall

{"title":"Reproductive Justice for Adolescent Migrant Girls in the Post-ICPD Era: A Critical Analysis of Contraceptive Care for Venezuelan Girls in Colombia.","authors":"Hannah Louise Hall","doi":"10.1007/s12116-025-09474-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12116-025-09474-2","url":null,"abstract":"Adolescent migrant girls face unique challenges to their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) due to their intersecting identities as women, young people, and migrants. Since the first International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, reports have increasingly emphasized the prioritization of SRHR for marginalized groups. In this article, I examine the response to contraceptive care needs through the case study of Venezuelan adolescent migrant girls in Colombia, utilizing Reproductive Justice as an analytical framework. I evaluate how state and non-state actors' responses address the intersections of gender, age, and migration to create environments that discourage contraceptive care access. I collected qualitative data through multi-perspective interviews conducted during ethnographic fieldwork in 2022. The sample includes 30 adolescent migrant girls and key informants involved in designing and delivering policies or programs for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia. Overall, the findings show that both state and non-state actors favored short-term, \"urgent\" interventions over access to adolescent-friendly, migrant-inclusive contraceptive care. I conclude that responses fragment aspects of SRH, deprioritizing contraceptive care and other longer-term intersectional responses in favor of urgent responses, which, in turn, further marginalize adolescent migrant girls. To overcome this, the post-ICPD agenda must recognize SRHR as a continuum and shape responses, aligning responses with the reproductive realities of adolescent migrant girls.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"60 4","pages":"888-919"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12748114/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145879123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exposing State Repression: Digital Discursive Contention by Chinese Protestors. 揭露国家镇压：中国抗议者的数位话语争论。

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09428-0

Diana Fu, Christian Göbel

{"title":"Exposing State Repression: Digital Discursive Contention by Chinese Protestors.","authors":"Diana Fu, Christian Göbel","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09428-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09428-0","url":null,"abstract":"One of the major issues in international development is how disadvantaged populations mobilize in response to state repression. Whether in the Black Lives Movement or in the 2011 Arab Spring, digital exposures of police abuse have spurred social movements when people took to social media to expose it. Yet, in authoritarian regimes, citizens cannot easily initiate or participate in social movements. In such cases, how do victims of police violence express their dissatisfaction? This study examines this question in contemporary China, where repression of protesters is well documented. Based on a dataset of microblogs-Chinese tweets-documenting 74,415 protest events in the early Xi administration (2013-2016), this study analyzes how ordinary protestors, including migrant workers, peasants, and the urban poor, expose police abuse in social media. A close reading of microblogs documenting 150 randomly sampled events finds that Chinese protestors adopt three distinct narrative types: citizenship, solidarity, and confrontational. An accompanying quantitative analysis of the wider dataset further finds that ordinary protestors frequently expose police abuse online and that mentions of police abuse are closely associated with the above three narratives. Overall, this study contributes to understanding how abused protestors discursively contest authorities in the world's most powerful authoritarian regime.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"60 3","pages":"655-689"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12549419/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145373230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Development NGOs, Domestic Politics, and Foreign Aid Allocations 非政府发展组织、国内政治和外援分配

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09442-2

Esol Cho

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Regulating to Exclude or to Enable: Institution Building and Transnational Standard Adoption in Mexican Food Safety 监管是为了排斥还是为了扶持？墨西哥食品安全的机构建设与跨国标准采用

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-07-27 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09438-y

Gerald A. McDermott, Belem Avendaño Ruiz

{"title":"Regulating to Exclude or to Enable: Institution Building and Transnational Standard Adoption in Mexican Food Safety","authors":"Gerald A. McDermott, Belem Avendaño Ruiz","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09438-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09438-y","url":null,"abstract":"A key challenge for integrating new transnational regulations into a semi-periphery country is creating institutional capacities for effective dissemination and monitoring of the standards and for upgrading a broad base of firms to implement and benefit from them. Instilled by NAFTA, Mexico embraced transnational food value chains, yet the results were rather mixed, as the vast majority of producers cannot implement new standards and participate. New rules and practices are not adopted on a tabula rasa but layered on prior socio-political institutions that are raw materials for new collaboration and blockage. We argue that improvements in both regulatory institutions and firm capabilities are driven by the creation of public–private learning communities, which in turn are shaped by prior institutional legacies at the public–private divide. The ability of producers to undertake organizational experiments with one another and key public actors is greatly constrained by the legacies of corporatism. Refashioned producer associations could initiate with certain local public institutions regulatory and technological upgrading for a limited number of firms, which became gatekeepers for certification.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141784053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From Rust to High-Tech Hubs: FDI-Led Upgrading of Urban Economies in East Central Europe 从锈迹斑斑到高科技中心：外国直接投资带动中东欧地区城市经济升级

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09433-3

Gergő Medve-Bálint

{"title":"From Rust to High-Tech Hubs: FDI-Led Upgrading of Urban Economies in East Central Europe","authors":"Gergő Medve-Bálint","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09433-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09433-3","url":null,"abstract":"In the semi-peripheral-dependent market economies (DME) of East Central Europe (ECE), foreign investors are major contributors to economic growth and tend to establish low value-added operations. At the same time, they enjoy superior bargaining power over central governments. The domination of FDI constrains domestic agency in shaping economic outcomes, thereby locking DMEs into the semi-periphery. Moving to the sub-national level, this paper challenges these views by arguing that there is considerably more scope for local development agency in DMEs than the comparative political economy literature suggests. Moreover, FDI-led upgrading, defined as multinational companies engaging in high value-added activities, can take place at the local level even without the direct involvement of the state. The paper draws on fieldwork conducted in two formerly declining industrial cities in ECE (Cluj and Gdańsk) that have recently emerged as knowledge-intensive hubs targeted by high value-added FDI. The paper shows that FDI-led upgrading in Gdańsk occurred with the active contribution and cooperation of both local private and public economic actors, whereas in Cluj, upgrading took place with the contribution of local universities and through the forging of business links between foreign capital and local firms established by expatriates and local engineers.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141784048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Development Pathways and the Political Economy of Maladaptation: The Case of Bioenergy as a Climate Strategy in Brazil 发展道路与适应不良的政治经济学：巴西将生物能源作为气候战略的案例

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09439-x

Jorge Ernesto Rodriguez Morales

{"title":"Development Pathways and the Political Economy of Maladaptation: The Case of Bioenergy as a Climate Strategy in Brazil","authors":"Jorge Ernesto Rodriguez Morales","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09439-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09439-x","url":null,"abstract":"Although it is well known that large-scale bioenergy expansion erodes different environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainable development, in countries like Brazil, bioenergy is institutionalized as a flagship climate strategy aimed to cut down CO2 emissions in transport. These trade-offs have serious implications for climate change governance and sustainable development; however, conventional approaches have not yet properly explained this seeming paradox. This article addresses this gap from a critical development pathways approach to bioenergy as a maladaptive strategy in Brazil. I propose an analytical framework to observe how different ideas, interests, and institutions interplay in the historical institutionalization of bioenergy as a climate strategy. The analysis shows that bioenergy institutionalization has been driven by the endemic economic crisis in the sugar sector and governmental interests associated with security and developmental imperatives. The unsustainable co-evolution of development pathways and bioenergy, marked by deforestation, land colonization, and agricultural expansion, has narrowed the adaptation space in agriculture, gearing current climate policy towards path-dependent maladaptive strategies like bioenergy. Paradoxically, framing bioenergy as a climate strategy has been useful to justify more expansive policies in favor of the sugarcane industry, and to greenwash the Brazilian climate policy in the international arena of climate governance.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"2012 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141718770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Production Networks and Innovation in the Semi-periphery: The Transition to Electric Vehicles in South Korea and Spain 半边缘地区的生产网络与创新：韩国和西班牙向电动汽车的过渡

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09436-0

Angela Garcia Calvo

{"title":"Production Networks and Innovation in the Semi-periphery: The Transition to Electric Vehicles in South Korea and Spain","authors":"Angela Garcia Calvo","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09436-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09436-0","url":null,"abstract":"What determines the ability of firms based in New Advanced Economies to generate innovation in the transition to electric vehicles (EVs)? Under what conditions are they more likely to break with their established pattern as fast followers to create innovation that is new to the world? To address these questions, we introduce a meso-level framework focused on the organization of global production networks. The framework examines three aspects of such networks: the position of the firm within the network, the number of lead firms, and the links between lead firms and suppliers. We illustrate the explanatory power of our framework through the cases of South Korea and Spain, the two New Advanced Economies with the largest automotive sectors. We characterize Korea’s production network as a unipolar, captive structure and Spain’s as part of an EU-wide multipolar, modular production network. We argue that contrary to common perceptions, Korea’s structure delayed the transition to EV’s and strengthened Korea’s role as a fast follower. Meanwhile, Spain’s embeddedness in the EU production network offered significant opportunities for turnkey suppliers to generate novel innovation despite the absence of a domestic lead firm.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141576047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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