Originating from a disenfranchisement with the contemporary definition and realisation of Westernised architecture as a commodity and product, this thesis seeks to explore alternative examples of positive socio-spatial practice and agency. These alternative spatial practices and methodologies are drawn from participatory and grass-roots development agency in informal settlements and contexts of...

In his work on a Welsh border village, Ronald Frankenberg showed how cultural performances, from football to carnival, conferred agency on local actors and framed local conflicts. The present article extends these themes. It responds to invocations by politicians and policy makers of ‘community cohesion’ and the failure of communal leadership, following riots by young South Asians in northern B...

A growing body of literature points to the role of vested interests as a barrier to the implementation of effective public health policies. Corporate political activity by the alcohol industry is commonly used to influence policy and regulation. It is important for policy makers to be able to critique alcohol industry claims opposed to improved alcohol marketing regulation. The Australian Natio...

This paper investigates whether improvements in women’s political representation are associated with higher child survival, and whether any improvements are greater for girls. It also differentiates the caste of both the child and the political leader. We use within-district variation in electoral outcomes for 286 districts across 31 years and within-mother variation in survival outcomes for 0....

This paper analyzes political agency with endogenous information collection and revelation by third-party auditors. While increasing incentives for auditors to provide information straightforwardly improves political control, a small amount of pro-incumbent bias can also be useful for maintaining high levels of control. When the equilibrium level of control is high, most investigations uncover ...

A model of political contribution of dynamic common agency where state-contingent agreements must be self-enforced is considered. Two issues are mainly examined; punishment strategy on deviation and the limit and scope of implicit agreements. The punishment strategy on the principals takes a form of two-phase scheme in general and, more specifically, it is either an “Exclusion-type”, on which t...

my purpose in this article is not to offer any original insights into hegel’s ethics, but merely to provide a brief overview that draws upon the most reliable secondary sources. in order to help organize the material, i compare hegel’s views with the communitarian critique of liberalism. following this, there is a brief account of the relation between hegel’s ethical and religious thought. hege...