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The Governance and Local Development Institute (GLD) is a research institute based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and at Cornell University, US. GLD aims to explain variations in governance and local development to promote global human welfare.
🚨New Policy Brief No. 28 written by @svshen.bsky.social is a fresh answer to a classic governance challenge—the principal-agent problem: How can principals deploy regularized campaigns to reduce discretion, curb capture, and reshape agent incentives—with lasting effects?
Learn More: bit.ly/GLDPB28
CALL FOR PROPOSALS | Open Worldwide 🌍
9th Annual GLD Conference
📍 Aspenäs Herrgård, Gothenburg, Sweden
📅 June 10-12, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Participation and Decision-Making: Studies on Citizen Engagement and Mobilization in Local Governance"
Apply Here: bit.ly/4gxyjdO
CALL FOR PROPOSALS | Open Worldwide 🌍
9th Annual GLD Conference
📍 Aspenäs Herrgård, Gothenburg, Sweden
📅 June 10-12, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Participation and Decision-Making: Studies on Citizen Engagement and Mobilization in Local Governance"
Apply Here: bit.ly/4gxyjdO
Join us for the GLD Virtual Annual Conference 2025!
Our fall series covers the big topics: Conflict, Climate Change, Pandemic response & Political Reform.
Open to all attendees. Join discussions on critical global issues with leading researchers and practitioners
Register now 👉 bit.ly/VACGLD25
The Comparative Politics Newsletter Is Out Now!
♦️Four interviews with Pathbreaking Women in Comparative Politics: Valerie Bunce, Barbara Geddes, Margaret Levi and Susan Rose-Ackerman
♦️2025 Section Awards
♦️Announcements
…and more: bit.ly/PBWiPGLD
New Episode Alert🚨
In this special edition of Governance Uncovered Nyché Andrew and Manasi Rao sit down with Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman. Come join us in exploring her impactful career and her pioneering research on corruption and democratic accountability.
Listen Here: bit.ly/4lpVxDl
🎙️NEW FELLOW INTERVIEW🎙️
Meet Dongshu Liu, Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Chinese politics and political behavior in authoritarian regimes. Liu also studies political survival, and public opinion in China.
Click here for more: bit.ly/FIDLGL
GLD Summer Newsletter
📅 GLD Virtual Annual Conference: Register now!
📝 Working Paper No. 81: The Costs of Exit: Female Labour Migration and Gender Equality in Source Countries
📗Ellen Lust’s Everyday Choices is now available in Spanish!
📰 GLD Fellow Interviews
... and more: bit.ly/ksf76
New Episode of Governance Uncovered is Live!
In this episode, we are joined by Ryan Knox, Souraya Hammoud, and Gunnar Andersson
Their insights highlight the ongoing efforts to build local governance from the ground up.
Listen Here: bit.ly/GLDGU68
GLD June Newsletter Highlights
📊Join our Dataset Initiative
📑 NEW Working Paper No.80 explores new patterns of urban political reform in Southeast Asia
🎙️New Governance Uncovered podcast on lessons on decentralization and Inequality in the MENA region
... and more: bit.ly/GLDJUN25
🌍 Excited to share that our paper on local context and mobilization in poor communities has been published in World Development. Grateful to the collaboration with Ellen Lust and support from @gldinstitute.bsky.social
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🖊️ Meet GLD Fellow Ashrakat Elshehawy, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s King Center on Global Development, whose work combines political economy with computational social science across Western and Arabic languages.
Read more: bit.ly/3Hke19W
New Governance Uncovered episode🔊
In this episode we discuss "Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World" with author Steve Monroe. Uncovering the gap between reform rhetoric and reality in Arab economies from Jordan to Morocco. Listen now! bit.ly/3SKOZTU
Working Paper 79 “Territorial Regimes Meet Crisis Management” analyzes Colombia's COVID-19 traffic-light system, revealing that effective territorial crisis governance requires more than smart frameworks. It demands robust informational capacity.
Read more 🔗: bit.ly/4jz6i5X
GLD May Newsletter Highlights
📝 NEW Working Paper No.79 explores Colombia's COVID-19 strategy and territorial governance approaches
🎙️ Latest New Governance Uncovered podcast on protectionism in the MENA
🖋️ Apply by June 8 for our Fall WiP Workshop Series!
... and more: bit.ly/GLDMAY25
📣 Seeking feedback on your governance or local development research? Join GLD's Fall 2025 Work-in-Progress Workshop Series! These hour-long sessions spotlight YOUR research, helping you build valuable connections while strengthening your work.
Apply by June 8, 2025, 11:59 PM CEST: bit.ly/3HkdZik
Are you looking for data on governance and service delivery in Tunisia? Check out our Local Governance Performance Index 2015 - Tunisia!
Access data: bit.ly/3YyKUWa
Supplemental Materials: bit.ly/3G9kXq1
Need data on parliamentary representation in Malawi? Check out our GLD Malawi Member of Parliament Survey Dataset - 2021-2022
Access data: bit.ly/4lztF12
Supplemental Materials: Policy Brief bit.ly/4jd7sEx
Need comprehensive governance data from Malawi? Explore our Local Governance Performance Index 2016 - Malawi
Access data: bit.ly/4cJ52uY
Supplemental Materials: bit.ly/3EiVxFX
Looking for Covid-19 impact data in Zambia? Check out our GLD-SAIPAR Covid-19 Survey in Zambia - 2020-2021
Access data: bit.ly/3Y7GhlT
Supplemental Materials: bit.ly/3EiWj5P, bit.ly/4ifbcnp
Interested in pandemic response data during political transitions? Discover insights from our GLD-IPOR Malawi Covid Panel Survey - 2020-2021
Access data: bit.ly/3EzMSPm
Supplemental Materials: bit.ly/3GnIvaB, bit.ly/4ifbcnp
Are you researching voter behavior during political transitions? Learn more about our Zambian Election Panel Survey - 2021
Access data: bit.ly/4ijLrTf
Supplemental Materials: bit.ly/42tx5cP
🌍 Are you looking for comparative governance insights across African nations? Take a look at the findings from our Local Governance Performance Index 2019 - Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia
Access data: bit.ly/4cE3hPy
LGPI Video: bit.ly/44oTQkL
📰NEW FELLOW INTERVIEW
Meet Anustubh Agnihotri from Ashoka University. Agnihotri offers unique insights as his research explores public bureaucracies, service delivery, and tech adoption in resource-limited settings.
Read More ➡️: bit.ly/4ilEYqJ
Last chance to register for "Decentralization, Local Governance, and Inequality in the MENA region."book launches:
Stockholm (Apr 22): SALAR International
Register: bit.ly/44ojFkW
London (Apr 24): Chatham House
Virtual: bit.ly/3XZ18YA
In-person: RSVP to NElgallal@chathamhouse.org by Apr 23
Fieldwork roadblocks? Join our research data exchange network! Share your datasets or request data from peers worldwide. All academic levels are welcome.
Submit via our form: bit.ly/42FcLWi.
Browse our public data at Harvard Dataverse: bit.ly/4jfbFaJ
Questions? contact@gld.gu.se
GLD's April Newsletter Is Out Now!
🔹 Upcoming Book launches for "Decentralization, Local Governance, and Inequality in MENA"
🔹 Apr 24 Workshop: Iraq’s Hydrosocial Conflicts w/ Ariel Ahram
🔹 New Dataset Initiative: Share or request research data through our network
…and more: bit.ly/3GbhNlJ
In the latest GLD Working Paper Blair Welsh and Prabin B. Khadka investigate Somalia's public acceptance patterns toward former armed group members. Study reveals critical gender and age dynamics for successful reintegration and countering violent extremism.
Read the full paper 🔗 bit.ly/4jz6i5X
Don’t miss out! Join us on April 22nd for a discussion hosted by the GLD Institute, at University of Gothenburg, & Cornell University in partnership with SALAR International on their open-access volume, "Decentralization, Local Governance, and Inequality in the MENA region."
Register: bit.ly/3FDXRYw
We are thrilled to share that Kristen Kao and Ellen Lust recently appeared on the @pomeps.bsky.social podcast, sharing insights from their new book, a product of a GLD project funded by the Hicham Alaoui Foundation. They explored local governance in MENA and shared compelling findings.
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