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Book Chapter | 2011

Introduction

Peter Burnell, Vicky Randall and Lise Rakner (2011)
in Peter Burnell, Vicky Randall and Lise Rakner, eds.: Politics in the developing world. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press pp. 1-10
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Lise Rakner

Professor at University of Bergen and Associated Research Professor
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Appears in:

Politics in the developing world. 3rd ed.
Burnell, Peter, Vicky Randall and Lise Rakner, eds.

Also in this volume:

  • Institutional perspectives
    Rakner, Lise and Vicky Randall
  • From conflict to peace-building
    Suhrke, Astri, Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary
  • Governance and aid conditionality in a globalizing world
    Rakner, Lise, Peter Burnell
  • Guatemala: enduring underdevelopment
    Sieder, Rachel

Also by this author:

Journal Article | Mar 2026

Democratic resilience in Africa: elections, opposition, and social movements

Gichohi, Matthew and Rakner, Lise

Democratization

CMI Insight | 2025

Imagined solidarity around tax practices in Namibia

Johanna Söderström and Lise Rakner

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Journal Article | May 2026

Tax Salience: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

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International Tax and Public Finance

CMI Brief | May 2026

When taxes become visible: Behavioral responses to mobile money taxation in Tanzania

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Sunniva Nygård Ingholm, Lucas Katera, Emil Løstegård, Ingrid Hoem Sjursen, Vincent Somville, Jasmin Vietz

CMI Working Paper | May 2026

Tax Salience: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania.

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Sunniva Nygård Ingholm, Lucas Katera, Emil Løstegård, Ingrid Hoem Sjursen, Vincent Somville, Jasmin Vietz

Journal Article | May 2026

The Political Ecology of Resource Corruption: Co-constituting Legality and Territoriality at the Frontier  

David Aled Williams, Achiba Andrew Gargule

Political Geography

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