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Pathways towards power shifts: state-society synergy (2023)
Journal Article
Fox, J., Robinson, R. S., & Hossain, N. (2023). Pathways towards power shifts: state-society synergy. World Development, 172, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106346

Policy reformers often make bold promises to improve government responsiveness to citizen demands. Yet such proclaimed openings from above often fall short, get diverted, or are blocked. This study uses the state-society synergy approach to analyze e... Read More about Pathways towards power shifts: state-society synergy.

The politics of complaint: a review of the literature on grievance redress mechanisms in the global South (2023)
Journal Article
Hossain, N., Joshi, A., & Pande, S. (2024). The politics of complaint: a review of the literature on grievance redress mechanisms in the global South. Policy Studies, 45(2), 139-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2193387

Institutionalized complaint systems are notable features of improving public programmes and government practice. This article reviews literature on formal grievance redress mechanisms in the global South to understand whether these mechanisms help th... Read More about The politics of complaint: a review of the literature on grievance redress mechanisms in the global South.

An Exploration of the Association Between Fuel Subsidies and Fuel Riots (2022)
Journal Article
McCulloch, N., Natalini, D., Hossain, N., & Justino, P. (2022). An Exploration of the Association Between Fuel Subsidies and Fuel Riots. World Development, 157, Article 105935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105935

Between 2005 and 2018, 41 countries had at least one riot directly associated with popular demand for fuel. We make use of a new international dataset on fuel riots to explore the effects of fuel prices and price regimes on fuel riots. In line with p... Read More about An Exploration of the Association Between Fuel Subsidies and Fuel Riots.

The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh (2021)
Journal Article
Hossain, N. (2021). The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh. Third World Quarterly, 42(11), 2706-2723. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1954902

This article explores how the people and landscape of the Bay of Bengal came to be cast in terms of what Giorgio Agamben called ‘bare life’ – a people without the protection or mandate of sovereign law – in the international discourse of the early 19... Read More about The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh.

The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Hunger and Poverty in the Global South (2021)
Journal Article
Hossain, N., & Oosterom, M. (2021). The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Hunger and Poverty in the Global South. Global Policy, 12(S5), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12979

Concerns about closing civic space have focused on human rights, and little to date has been known of the impacts on development. This article traces impacts of closing civic space on civil society and social movements addressing poverty and hunger i... Read More about The Implications of Closing Civic Space for Hunger and Poverty in the Global South.

The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, T. O., Hassan, M., & Hossain, N. (2021). The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19. World Development, 137, Article 105216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105216

As the Covid-19 pandemic spread in 2020, the government of Bangladesh ordered a lockdown and promised a program of relief. Citizens complied at first, but soon returned to economic and social life; relief proved slow and uncertain, and citizens could... Read More about The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19.

The SDGs and the empowerment of Bangladeshi women (2020)
Book Chapter
Hossain, N. (2020). The SDGs and the empowerment of Bangladeshi women. In S. Chaturvedi, H. Janus, S. Klingebiel, X. Li, A. de Mello e Souza, E. Sidiropoulos, & D. Wehrmann (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda: Contested Collaboration (453-474). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57938-8_21

This chapter describes Bangladesh’s successes with advancing gender equality in the period of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), locating their origins in elite commitment to including women in the development process, and in the partnerships a... Read More about The SDGs and the empowerment of Bangladeshi women.