While consultants have crept into various aspects of municipal governance, a selected few transcended the others reaching status urban gurus. Although are often perceived as depoliticizing affairs, research shows that guru instigates politicization. Research on gurus does thus highlight distinctions between and ‘lay’ consultants, but it has paid insufficient attention to describing how, through...

We estimate an equilibrium model of decision-making in the US Supreme Court which takes into account both private information and ideological differences between justices. We measure the value of information in the court by the probability that a justice votes differently from how she would have voted without case-specific information. Our results suggest a sizable value of information: in 44% ...

This article discusses the ways of politicization ethno-tribal component in Sudan. And it proves that manipulation these factors by political actors contributed to emergence conflicts and instability country. The author analyzes historical context which ethnicity tribalism were first politicized Sudan, how used justify perpetuate various forms violence discrimination. Finally, comes conclusion ...

Discussions of chronic poverty emphasize the extent to which poverty endures because of the social relationships and structures within which particular social groups are embedded. In this sense chronic poverty is a socio-political relationship rather than a condition of assetless-ness. Understood as such, processes of social mobilization become central to any discussion of chronic poverty becau...