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Blending Top-down Federalism With Bottom-up Engagement To Reduce Inequality In Ethiopia [PDF]
Khan, Q., J.P. Faguet, and A. Ambel. 2017. “Blending Top-Down Federalism with Bottom-Up Engagement to Reduce Inequality in Ethiopia.”World Development, 96: 326–342.
Decentralisation’s Effect On Education And Health: Evidence From Ethiopia [PDF]
Jean-Paul Faguet, Qaiser Khanand Devarakonda Priyanka Kanth
Transformation From Below In Bangladesh: Decentralization, Local Governance, And Systemic Change [PDF]
Faguet, J.P. 2017. “Transformation from Below in Bangladesh: Decentralization, Local Governance, and Systemic Change.” Modern Asian Studies, 51 (6): 1668–1694.
Institutions and Long-Run Development
The Perversion Of Public Land Distribution By Landed Elites: Power, Inequality And Development In Colombia [PDF]
Faguet, 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.
Is Extraction Bad? Encomienda And Development In Colombia Since 1560 [PDF]
Faguet, J.P., F. Sánchez and C. Matajira. 2017. “Is Extraction Bad? Encomienda and Development in Colombia Since 1560.” LSE Manuscript.
Political System Stability and Change
Revolution From Below: Cleavage Displacement And The Collapse Of Elite Politics In Bolivia [PDF]
Faguet, J.P. 2019. “Revolution From Below: Cleavage Displacement and the Collapse of Elite Politics in Bolivia.” Politics & Society, 47(2): 205–250.
The Lessons Of Bolivia [PDF]
Faguet, J.P. 2018. “The Lessons of Bolivia.” Journal of Democracy, 29 (4): 89-101.
Awards the research used in Decentralization and Popular Democracy has received
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