Edited by Jean-Paul Faguet, Professor of the Political Economy of Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Caroline Pöschl, PhD student, London School of Economics and Political Science

Jean-Paul Faguet is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the London School of Economics. He is also Chair of the Decentralization Task Force at Columbia University's Initiative for Policy Dialogue. His research blends quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the institutions and organizational forms that underpin rapid development. He has published extensively in the academic literature, including Governance from Below: Decentralization and Popular Democracy in Bolivia, which won the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize for best political science book of 2012. His teaching and research focus on comparative political economy, new institutional economics, economic development and economic history.

Caroline Pöschl is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her dissertation explores the relationship between taxation and accountability at the local government level in Mexico. Caroline has experience working on decentralisation, subnational management, and taxation at the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. Her research interests include local governance and decentralisation.

Mani Shankar Aiyar, Government of India
Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas J. Bossert, Harvard School of Public Health
Giorgio Brosio, University of Turin
Joseph J. Capuno, University of the Philippines
Ali Cheema, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Vigile Marie B. Fabella, University of the Philippines
Jean-Paul Faguet, London School of Economics
Ashley M. Fox, Harvard University
Matteo Grazzi, Inter-American Development Bank
Fidel Jaramillo, Inter-American Development Bank
Juan Pablo Jimenez, ECLA
Adnan Q. Khan, London School of Economics
Stuti Khemani, World Bank
Aleli D. Kraft, University of the Philippines
Bingqin Li, London School of Economics
Sandip Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University
Roger Myerson, University of Chicago
Caroline Pöschl, London School of Economics
Stella A. Quimbo, University of the Philippines
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, ex-President of Bolivia
Abhirup Sarkar, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Carlos Antonio R. Tan, Jr., University of the Philippines
Barry R. Weingast, Stanford University
Yongmei Zhang, Lanzhou University