A rich and growing literature illustrates the paradox of COVID-19 responses by governments across the world. States with higher levels of authority and capacity have struggled to respond effectively to COVID-19, while states with low capacity and authority have been more effective in containing...

Introduction : against false binaries -- Poverty, democracy and political spaces -- From clientelism to citizenship? : the politics of supplications -- From moral vocabularies to languages of stateness? : the politics of applications -- From backwardness to improvement? : the politics of...

"This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. China's resurgence has spawned anxieties about an impending...