This article examines efforts to regulate private military and security companies (PMSCs) in different UN fora since 2005, in order to understand the processes that led to a significant dilution of initial regulatory ambitions. The analysis of the proceedings of the three working groups relevant...
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
Strong state, weak society: state capacity, economic development and clientelism in modern Russia
This paper provides a comparative analysis of how highly differentiated regions of Russia perform in terms of economic development, public services delivery and overall quality of governance while linking these factors to levels of political support for the current incumbent during the latest presidential electoral campaign in 2018. It introduces...
Monday, August 22nd, 2022
Natural resource dependency & its effects on governance quality
Based on the equilibrium theory of control of corruption, The research built a statistical model to show the relationship between natural resources dependent economies and control of corruption. The model has the feature of using a composite indicator of governance quality, enabling the creation of a composite analysis based on...
Friday, October 9th, 2015
Government engagement in co-operative service delivery in Romania: knowledge and acknowledgement
This paper approaches the engagement of successive Romanian governments with service delivery by third sector organisations and uses policy discourse to assess governance practices associated with collaborative service delivery. The topic is approached by a theoretically-informed qualitative analysis of policy documents spanning a decade. Results point out that the most...
