The CapX Podcast: Ben Ansell on Why Politics Fails
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The UK's Prosperity Trap
National Swing Man, the British electorate’s new-old tribe
POSTPONED: Agrarian Questions of Gendered Labour in Global South Development Trajectories
For the ODS Annual Lecture 2023, Professor Lyn Ossome examines concerns around the structures, trajectories and gendered outcomes of capitalist development in the agrarian south, with the aim also of outlining a feminist decolonial critique of economic development.
Members of the Oxford Constitutional Studies Forum
Susan Way
Sue Way joined DPIR in April 2023 as Deputy Finance Manager to support the Finance Manager in managing the department’s annual budgeting processes, as well as the day-to-day finances. Sue works part–time for DPIR (Thurs and Fri). The rest of the week she works at the Oxford Martin School supporting the HAF in managing the OMS’s finances.
Prior to this, she worked as a management accounts assistant in the Central Finance department of the University supporting all the different sections of the Central Administration.
Weaponized Interdependence: Global Monopolies as the Sources of Power
This paper focuses on the weaponization of interdependences among states. Weaponization refers to one state restricting its international economic relationships (or ‘interdependences’) to inflict economic or political costs on another state. Recent examples include Western sanctions against Russia over Ukraine and Russia’s retaliatory restriction of gas supplies to several European states. We know surprisingly little about two related questions: what determines whether a particular international economic relationship can be weaponized effectively?
Pakistan: Political Economy of an Elite Captured State
Many Pakistani colonial institutions such has the bureaucracy, the judiciary and especially the army have evolved into self-perpetuating elite institutions that resist change and seek to maintain the status quo. And over the years they have co-opted politicians, religious leaders, the landed gentry and also large industrial conglomerates and together they have neither pursued inclusive economic growth nor a liberal, tolerant society. Resultantly Pakistan is falling behind all its peer nations in South Asia in income and human development.