Lastly, we show that exposure to violence attenuates the perceived effectiveness of *all* types of natural resource governance, suggesting that no system can be truly resilience in the face of ongoing violence. (6/6)

Interestingly, members of local ethnic out-groups also prefer community based governance. This result is a bit surprising if we think that local elites might be biased against this out-group, but this bias still might be preferred to the governance of a distance or ineffective state. (5/6)

The answer to the first question is yes: respondents overwhelmingly prefer community natural resource governance. While they would also prefer a state-led system to the status quo, the comparison isn’t close—it’s community-led governance all the way. (4/6)

To answer this questions, we administered a vignette experiment ito about 3,000 household heads in rural Mali and Niger. We presented respondents with one of three hypothetical natural resource systems: the status quo (the control condition), a state-led system, and the community led system. (3/6)

Both African governments and donor organizations have focused on community-based natural resource governance in recent years: devolving control, the argument goes, helps local communities manage resources in a way best suited to local circumstances. But when does this strategy work? (2/6)

Even the business meeting had folks standing in the back this year!

I’m just waiting for the Trump admin to announce its bilateral aid agreement with the kingdom of Prester John.

Ah, you mean more money overall, not more money for reviews. You’re probably right.

Wouldn’t that just incentivize the journals to concentrate more to avoid paying larger fees for more junior/contingent faculty?

Congrats!

A new paper on at least the first question slipped under my radar, it may have slipped under your’s: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bummed to have missed it!

Reminds me of the French army returning to the trace italienne fortifications during Operation Barkhane.

And let’s not forget administrator of USAID.

Yes, it is very well documented that M**k and the sneering staffers who did his bidding causes mass death all over the world, deaths that continue to mount each day that the illegal closure of USAID continues.

Or destroys an independent agency created by congress, a la USAID

This also might depend on the outcome of 26 Jane Does v Musk on the USAID separation of powers question.

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

Same—this was a helpful list!