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Regarding the Arab region, GDP per capita virtually stagnated for more than 20 years from 1980. During the same period, GDP per capita in the world's highly industrialized states further increased and the gap between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the highly develop…
Regarding the Arab region, GDP per capita virtually stagnated for more than 20 years from 1980. During the same period, GDP per capita in the world's highly industrialized states further increased and the gap between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the highly develop…
This book examines egalitarian social ideals and institutions that arose in preindustrial China and England, and in the process, uncovers China's forgotten role in the history of social justice debate and legislation during the eighteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of visu…
One of the problems facing Europe is that the building of institutional Europe and top-down efforts to get Europeans to imagine their common identity does not result in political and cultural unity.
Regional institutions are an increasingly prominent feature of world politics. Their characteristics and performance vary widely: some are highly legalistic and bureaucratic, while others are informal and flexible. They also differ in terms of inclusiveness, decision-making rule…
"As water scarcity increases, pressure to re-allocate water from agriculture to other uses mounts. With this mounting pressure comes the need for institutional arrangements that can manage and accommodate shifts to 'higher value' uses of water. These changes in resource allocati…
The interplay of American political institutions provides a comprehensive framework for understanding populism. It is proposed that populist outbreaks are the result of obstructed representation and political institutions' inability to respond to constituent demands. It is demon…
This dissertation aims at providing new insights into the possible role of history, institutions, and culture in shaping modern patterns of economic development. It consists of three core empirical studies. The first study (co-authored with Aldo Musacchio and Nidhiya Menon) expl…
This dissertation contains three papers that increase our understanding of the impacts of public policies, with a special focus on policies geared toward the poor. The first chapter considers the impact of the minimum wage, one of the most pervasive policy in existence today, to…
Native American reservations are often islands of poverty within the United States. Many scholars and policymakers are concerned with facilitating economic development on Native American lands, but despite federal and tribal development initiatives, growth has been slow and inco…