Studies in Comparative International Development最新文献

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

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

Gerald A. McDermott, Belem Avendaño Ruiz

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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

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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

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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

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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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Votes for Water: Ethnic Service Delivery and Criminality in Karachi, Pakistan 为水投票：巴基斯坦卡拉奇的种族服务提供与犯罪行为

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09424-4

Erum A. Haider, Niloufer A. Siddiqui

{"title":"Votes for Water: Ethnic Service Delivery and Criminality in Karachi, Pakistan","authors":"Erum A. Haider, Niloufer A. Siddiqui","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09424-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09424-4","url":null,"abstract":"How do voters in ethnically polarized settings evaluate coethnic candidates in an environment of hybrid provision of public goods, especially where such hybrid provision includes links to criminal actors? In numerous urban settings around the world, local public goods provision involves a complex mix of private vendors, state services, and criminal actors. This paper explores how voters in Karachi, Pakistan evaluate candidates making distinct claims to water provision. We present findings from a survey experiment of over 2000 Karachi residents surveyed in 2021–2022. We find that while voters generally prefer coethnic candidates regardless of their ability to provide water, a non-coethnic candidate’s access to the state water bureaucracy can decrease the coethnic advantage and increase the credibility of a non-coethnic candidate. This is particularly the case among voters least satisfied with their water supply and most reliant on private sources of water. However, contrary to literature that finds that criminality can signal competence or the likelihood of goods and services being directed to coethnics, ties to the illegal water mafia do not offer either coethnic or non-coethnic candidates any additional advantage.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932029","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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Governance by Patching: A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Policy Implementation 修补治理：适应性政策实施的比较分析

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09425-3

Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Atul Pokharel

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Reimagining Transcalar Civil Society Advocacy Collaborations: Starting from the Global South 重新构想跨部门民间社会宣传合作：从全球南部开始

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09426-2

Margit van Wessel

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Opportunities and Choices During Environmental Licensing: Community Participation in Latin America’s Extractive Sectors 环境许可过程中的机遇与选择：拉丁美洲采掘业中的社区参与

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-02-24 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09416-w

Maiah Jaskoski

{"title":"Opportunities and Choices During Environmental Licensing: Community Participation in Latin America’s Extractive Sectors","authors":"Maiah Jaskoski","doi":"10.1007/s12116-023-09416-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-023-09416-w","url":null,"abstract":"In many Latin American countries, the state is to inform communities about proposed large-scale development that affects them, often in a public hearing on the environmental impact study (estudio de impacto ambiental, EIA). This article explores the role of the EIA public hearing in environmental governance, specifically in terms of local community participation in extractives. Analysis of nine mining and hydrocarbon conflicts in Colombia and Peru reveals that sometimes the public hearing is a space for project opponents alone to participate intensively, with a focus on altering development outcomes; in other cases, activists and project supporters compete at hearings; and, finally, some communities eschew the hearing entirely. The study points to two factors to explain this variation: first, whether the public hearing is a mandatory stage in environmental licensing, and second, the cohesion of impacted communities. Running counter to existing criticisms of the structures that govern public hearings in Colombian environmental licensing, the article finds that the hurdle for Colombian communities of requesting the hearing has contributed to effective organizing by movements opposed to large-scale development.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"132 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139945634","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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Civil Society Under Attack: The Consequences for Horizontal Accountability Institutions 受到攻击的公民社会：横向问责机构的后果

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09423-x

Hannah Smidt, Jessica Johansson, Thomas Richter

{"title":"Civil Society Under Attack: The Consequences for Horizontal Accountability Institutions","authors":"Hannah Smidt, Jessica Johansson, Thomas Richter","doi":"10.1007/s12116-023-09423-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-023-09423-x","url":null,"abstract":"Existing research shows that the activity of independent civil society organizations (CSOs) is an important ingredient of democratization and democratic consolidation. Yet, what happens when governments impose restrictions on CSO activity? This manuscript investigates how restrictions on CSOs affect the quality of horizontal accountability institutions like parliaments and courts. CSOs monitor and mobilize against violations of democratic norms. Thus, if governments impose restrictions on CSO activity, they may face fewer barriers (i.e., less scrutiny and criticism) to dismantling horizontal checks and balances. In addition, when restrictions prevent CSOs from supporting horizontal accountability institutions (e.g., with monitoring and expertise), the latter’s ability to control and constrain governments likely declines. Our large-N cross-country analysis supports this argument, suggesting that the imposition of restrictions on CSOs diminishes the quality of horizontal accountability institutions. We examine alternative explanations (i.e., prior autocratization trends and the authoritarian nature of governments) and offer qualitative evidence from Kenya and Turkey to illustrate the expected causal pathways. Our results imply that a crackdown on CSOs serves as a warning sign of deteriorating horizontal oversight.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139658901","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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