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Firm-Centered Approaches to Overcoming Semi-Peripheral Constraints 以企业为中心克服半边缘制约的方法

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09434-2

Sonja Avlijaš, Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni

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Beyond Dependent Development? The Unlikely Emergence of an Upgrading Alliance in the Case of InoBat in Slovakia 超越依赖性发展？斯洛伐克伊诺巴特公司案例中不可能出现的升级联盟

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09440-4

Alen Toplišek

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Semi-Peripheral Pathways to High-Technology Markets: How Organizational Origins Shape Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 通往高科技市场的半边缘之路：组织起源如何塑造创业生态系统

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-06-19 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09437-z

Alessandra Cicci, Darius Ornston

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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

IF 2.7 2区社会学

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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When Counterinsurgent Institutions Persist: Unpacking Local Wartime Legacies 当反叛乱机构持续存在时：解读地方战时遗留问题

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09427-1

Reo Matsuzaki, Rachel A. Schwartz

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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

IF 2.7 2区社会学

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

IF 2.7 2区社会学

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

IF 2.7 2区社会学

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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Permissive Regulations and Forest Protection 许可条例和森林保护

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09421-z

Candelaria Garay

{"title":"Permissive Regulations and Forest Protection","authors":"Candelaria Garay","doi":"10.1007/s12116-023-09421-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-023-09421-z","url":null,"abstract":"The subnational implementation of forest protection legislation is an important aspect of forest governance. In this article, I explore how competing interests regarding production and conservation affect forest protection at the local level in the Argentine Chaco Forest, which represents 60 percent of the Chaco Americano, the second largest forest in South America. Employing original and administrative data, I assess whether deforestation is associated with large producers, who seek to expand soy cultivation into forestlands, and the presence of indigenous communities, who favor forest protection. Quantitative analysis of the departments in the Chaco region suggests that overall deforestation is associated with soy cultivation and past deforestation. In contrast, forest loss in protected areas, which should be zero but represents almost half of total deforestation during the studied period, is positively associated with the number of indigenous communities in the department, the share of protected forestlands, the power of large producers, and past deforestation. Qualitative analysis suggests that lands inhabited by indigenous communities were generally granted protected status, as requested by national legislation and consistent with demands of indigenous groups and their allies. Yet, this protected status has been watered down by permissive regulations and the overall lax enforcement of forest protection legislation, which were in turn driven by large producers invested in cropland expansion.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139945623","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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Citizen-Led Environmental Governance: Regulating Urban Wetlands in South America 公民主导的环境治理：管理南美洲的城市湿地

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09420-0

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