The Australian Federal government’s Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) to protect Aboriginal children deserves a closer analysis. Numerous studies and reports in the past have chronicled the plight of Indigenous Australians 1,2 . The Wild and Anderson report 3 commissioned by the Northern Territory Government attracted an unusually swift response from the Federal Government. Various a...

Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) are funding arrangements that channel money from central government directly to electoral constituencies for local infrastructure projects. Decisions about how these funds are allocated and spent are heavily influenced by elected members of parliament (MPs). The degree to which these funds are controlled by parliamentarians, and the degree to which local ci...

Although no significant changes in the tuberculosis indicators have been registered in Brazil in recent years, there is a clear shift in the political scenario regarding the manner this disease has been tackled, with the appearance of civil society standing out. Considerations about the conditions that contributed to its emergence are made, such as the origin, composition, actions, partners and...

“On 2 October 2012, birthday of the Mahatma (Gandhi), Sargun Masomait, a 35-year-old tribal woman . . . began marching toward New Delhi from Gwalior. She was part of a group of 40,000 people – tribals, Dalits, nomads, nowhere people with no land of their own, the wretched of the Indian earth, out to claim their dignity; or to reclaim it” (Pandey 2012). The March of the Landless led to the signi...

This essay examines how the United States Military Academy at West Point developed an explicitly “federal” Christianity to help train the antebellum officers of the United States Army. It begins by examining how the Episcopal Church was quietly “established” at West Point, and how the church allied with the federal government and US Army to encourage a potent Christian nationalism that collapse...

Decentralization is often a major part of health reform policies. However, there have been few attempts to comparatively study the degree of decentralization and the effects of decentralization on equity of allocations to health, so we do not know how best to implement this reform. This article uses an innovative comparative analysis of the "decision space" that was allowed to local municipalit...