Latest working paper
Is Extraction Bad? Encomienda And Development In Colombia Since 1560Faguet, J.P., F. Sánchez and C. Matajira. 2017. “Is Extraction Bad? Encomienda and Development in Colombia Since 1560.” LSE Manuscript.
Latest publication
The Perversion Of Public Land Distribution By Landed Elites: Power, Inequality And Development In ColombiaFaguet, J.P., F. Sánchez and J. Villaveces. Forthcoming. “The Perversion of Public Land Distribution by Landed Elites: Power, Inequality and Development in Colombia.” World Development.
Invited lectures and conference papers
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About the Governance from Below website
This website supports Decentralization and Popular Democracy, and related research projects by Jean-Paul Faguet and his colleagues. It includes additional material from the book project, such as a bonus web chapter on seven further case studies, graphs, charts, PPT presentations, and video and audio from lectures. It also provides detailed research materials that may be of use to readers, such as databases, questionnaires, video, and images. New material on the book, and from new research projects, will be added gradually as it becomes available.
Awards this research has won
- LSE Historic Theses Project – selected as an LSE PhD thesis of historic significance, 2010
- Corporación Andina de Fomento International Research Paper Prize, 2008
- LSE-STICERD New Researcher Award, 2006-2008
- British Academy Small Research Grant, 2006-2008
- DFID-Crisis States Programme Research Grant, 2001-2005
- World Bank Research Committee Award for Participatory Planning and Decentralization in Bolivia, 1997-2001
- William Robson Memorial Prize for best PhD dissertation at the LSE, 2002
- Overseas Research Scholarship - national (UK) PhD award, 1996-98
This website and much of the research on it are supported by the generosity of Niko Vardapetyan. The Niko Vardapetyan Research Award supports studies of the evolution and reform of economic and political systems. Niko Vardapetyan, the CFO of Geotransgaz Group, studied Global Market Economics at the LSE. He is a firm believer that the challenges of global instability call for imaginative thinking about our economies and institutions through research unconstrained by traditional paradigms.