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Open access Aug 2026

The politicization of public policy in Indonesia: A Global South perspective

This study examines the systemic politicization of public policy in Indonesia, rooted in its historical, political, and sociocultural contexts. Adopting a Global South perspective, it challenges Northern-centric frameworks by showing how political elites strategically set agendas to consolidate power, while bureaucra...

Isnaini Muallidin · Journal of Public Policy · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Rebalancing the Agenda: Power, Funding, and the Politics of Knowledge in Corruption Research

This article examines how global research funding systems and institutional hierarchies continue to marginalize scholars based in the Global South (GS) within corruption studies. While the GS is frequently the site of empirical research, agenda-setting power, authorship, and legitimacy remain concentrated in the Global...

Anwesha Chakraborty, Robert Gillanders, Giovanna Rodríguez-García et al. · American Behavioral Scientis... · 0 citations

Sep 2026

Global Governance and Small-State Agency: A Comparative Study of Nepal’s Efforts, Challenges, Innovations, and Future Strategies

Global governance is increasingly shaped by challenges that transcend national borders, including climate change,pandemics, migration, international economic instability, technological transformation, artificial intelligence, andsustainable development. These challenges have expanded opportunities for small states to e...

Madhukar Mani Acharya · International journal for de... · 0 citations

Sep 2026

Between Global Norms and Local Realities: The Institutional Dynamics of Anti-Corruption Agencies in the Global South

The global diffusion of anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) has become a central feature of governance reform across the Global South, yet agencies established under similar international “best practice” models display strikingly different levels of effectiveness. This article explains this variation by arguing that anti-c...

Ina Kubbe · American Behavioral Scientis... · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

Nation building in Pakistan: Governance failure, economic deprivation, and the crisis of substantive citizenship

Pakistan is continuously struggling to foster a cohesive national identity since its inception. This paper argues that the reasons lie more in governance and economic failure. While existing scholarship treats nation-building as an identity project shaped by religion, ethnicity, and history, this study treats it as fun...

Shakila Aslam, Rehana Saeed Hashmi, Abid Akbar · Journal of Emerging Trends i... · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Beyond “Best Practices”: A Historical-Sociological Critique of Privatization, Decentralization, and Anti-Corruption Discourse in 1990s Brazil

In the post-Cold War 1990s, a homogenizing package of neoliberal reforms—centered on privatization, deregulation, and fiscal austerity—was globally promoted as a universal blueprint for modernization and clean governance. This article critically examines how, in Brazil, this globally promoted agenda was selectively ada...

F. Forattini · American Behavioral Scientis... · 0 citations