Welcome to the QoG podcast – a podcast brought to you by the Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg. In this series, we have conversations with well-known experts to try to make sense of politics and governments around the world.

Hosting this show is Professor Victor Lapuente, and in this episode, he is joined by Akshay Mangla Associate Professor in International Business at the University of Oxford, UK. They are discussing Mangala’s first book, Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India (Cambridge University Press), where he investigates why and how state agencies implement universal primary education programs (more or less) effectively in India. The book advances a theoretical framework centered on informal bureaucratic norms, the unwritten rules of the game that guide the behavior of state officials and their relations with citizens and non-state agencies.

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Welcome to the QoG podcast – a podcast brought to you by the Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg. In this series, we have conversations with well-known experts to try to make sense of politics and governments around the world.

Hosting this show is Professor Victor Lapuente, and in this episode he is joined by Mattias vom Hau, a sociologist by training currently working at IBEI in Barcelona.

Matthias’ research is centrally concerned with the relationship between identity politics, institutions, and development, with a comparative-historical focus on Latin America. He has published widely on how states construct a sense of national belonging, how civil society actors negotiate and contest official nationalisms, and the extent to which ordinary citizens subscribe to official and counter-state identity projects.

The episode was recorded during the Science Festival in Gothenburg in May 2023.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the QoG podcast – a podcast brought to you by the Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg.

In this series, we have conversations with well-known experts to try to make sense of politics and governments around the world.

Hosting this show is Professor Victor Lapuente, and in this episode he is joined by Jenifer L. Selin, Attorney Advisor at the Administrative Conference of the United States. Prior to joining ACUS, Dr. Selin was a professor at the Universities of Illinois and Missouri and most recently served as Co-Director of Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy’s Washington, DC Office. Her published research illustrates that the legal structure of the administrative state has important implications for the functioning of the American separation of powers system.

The views expressed in this podcast are those of the scholars and do not represent the position of ACUS or the federal government of the United States. 

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