M Hassan
Biographic Data
| ID | 47160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Hassan |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hassan |
| SIGNATURE | HASSAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0476-8792 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 314 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Synergy of Psychological Capital and Job Embeddedness
Psychological capital (PsyCap), comprising hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism, is a critical psychological resource that enhances employee retention (ER) in the hospitality industry. Grounded in the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this study examines the direct impact of PsyCap on ER and explores job embeddedness (JE) as a mediating factor. JE represents the psychological and social forces that keep employees attached to their …
Communication, coordination, and surveillance in the shadow of repression
Communication technology helps protesters organize, but also allows the government to monitor and repress their actions. We study this trade‐off in a model where protesters want to show up at the same time and place, but also want to avoid government forces. If leaders of a movement can send messages observed only by other protesters, they can successfully coordinate on a variety of sites and force the government to spread resources thin, helping…
Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity in the Architectural Landscape of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This research explores the role of religious moderation centers in Perguruan Tinggi Keagamaan Islam Negeri (PTKIN), focusing on the integration between faith and history to be applied to PTKIN students. The context of this research reflects a deep need to understand how the Religious Moderation Center contributes crucially to achieving harmony in the Islamic academic environment. The research questions are directed at two main aspects of the disc…
Coordinated Dis-Coordination
Dissidents mobilizing against a repressive regime benefit from using public information for tactical coordination since widespread knowledge about an upcoming event can increase participation. But public calls to protest make dissidents' anticipated activities legible to the regime, allowing security forces to better stifle mobilization. I examine collective action during Sudan's 2018-19 uprising and find that mobilization appeared to be publicly…
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism
Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local politicians' incentives to distribute government positions to partisan supporters. Other studies instead point to the role of bureaucratic managers in allocating government jobs to close contacts. We jointly consider the relative importance of each source of biased hiring as an allocation problem between managers and politicians who have different preferences regarding public sector hi…
Dismantling old or forging new clientelistic ties? Sudan’s civil service reform after uprising
Closing The Gap
Politicians and scholars alike have advocated for land reform as a tool to address political instability and poverty. Yet in many cases of land reform, governments provide land but withhold property rights. Why do leaders withhold these rights, and when do they grant previously withheld rights? The authors argue that land rights are a distributive good that leaders relinquish conservatively and selectively to build popular support. Using microlev…
New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past
Journal Article New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past Get access Mai Hassan Mai Hassan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 121, Issue 483, April 2022, Pages 321–333, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac002 Published: 07 April 2022 Article history Accepted: 04 April 2022 Corrected and typeset: 07 April 2022 Published: 07 April 2022
Regional Governance in Divided Societies
We argue that leaders employ one of two strategies to govern subnational regions. These governance strategies, in turn, condition how leaders appoint and manage the regional executives to whom they delegate authority. In the co-optation strategy, leaders advance local welfare by appointing locally embedded regional executives, who are drawn from the local population and enjoy relatively long tenures. In the suppression strategy, leaders ensure th…
Political Control
Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually, suggesting fundamental dissimilarities in underpinning logic and goals. We introduce political control as a concept that unifies these different tactics within a single framework and demonstrate the analytical utility of considering seemingly disparate strategies in conv…
The local politics of resource distribution
How have successive Kenyan governments distributed development resources since Independence? Resource distribution institutions during Kenya’s first five decades after Independence followed either a center-led or local-led track. Each president designed his own center-led resource distribution strategies, and distributed state resources disproportionately to his co-ethnic base in light of the group’s geographic location and representation in the …
Regime Threats and State Solutions
The administrative state is a powerful tool because it can control the population and, in moments of crisis, help leaders put down popular threats to their rule. But a state does not act; bureaucrats work through the state to carry out a leader's demands. In turn, leaders attempt to use their authority over the state to manage bureaucrats in a way that induces bureaucratic behavior that furthers their policy and political goals. Focusing on Kenya…
Representative bureaucracy, role congruence, and Kenya's gender quota
This article examines the subnational determinants of descriptive representation. Agency managers may be hesitant to hire women uniformly across all localities if they perceive geographic variation in role congruence, or the degree to which a position's duties match gender roles. We expect managerial perceptions to affect hiring patterns even after the adoption of a gender quota intended to improve descriptive representation, as managers will dif…
An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries
Developing nations demand a different scholarly approach in the field of public administration. We advance an agenda for research that stands on four pillars. First, in the absence of easily accessible data scholars of developing world public administration must assemble it for themselves. Second, building and testing theory plays a paramount role because researchers face limited information. Third, in developing countries, multi‐national and non…
Sudan's Uprising
This article traces the reign and downfall of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's longtime autocrat. Like other autocrats, al-Bashir attempted to prevent coups against his rule by crafting a personalistic regime that weakened important political actors and tied their fates to his own. But Sudan's 2018–19 popular uprising, which resulted in al-Bashir's ousting by his own security forces, suggests that, under pressure, personalistic regimes may quickly evolve …
Uneven accountability in the wake of political violence
The government faces a principal-agent problem with lower-level state officers. Officers are often expected to use the state coercive capacity endowed to them to politically benefit the government. But officers can shirk from the government's demands. An officer's actions during bouts of large-scale and highly visible electoral violence reveal the officer's type, thereby providing the government with the information necessary to solve its princip…
Executive–Legislative Relations, Party Defections, and Lower Level Administrative Unit Proliferation
Over the past 25 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of subnational administrative units within developing countries. Existing literature argues that presidents create new units to deliver patronage to citizens. But proliferation at lower tiers of the state, that are too administratively distant from the president to credibly serve as patronage, does not follow this logic. We build from the premise that the creation of a new l…
The Strategic Shuffle
For autocrats facing elections, officers in the internal security apparatus play a crucial role by engaging in coercion on behalf of the incumbent. Yet reliance on these officers introduces a principal‐agent problem: Officers can shirk from the autocrat's demands. To solve this problem, autocrats strategically post officers to different areas based on an area's importance to the election and the expected loyalty of an individual officer, which is…
A State of Change
Many developing countries have recently increased the number of their sub-national administrative units. Existing literature explains this phenomenon by suggesting that because new units serve as patronage to an area, they can help a leader meet local demand for state resources or divide opposition elites. These explanations, however, overlook the costs of new administrative units to a leader facing competitive reelection, in part, because they r…
Continuity despite change
What explains the continuation of strong executive power despite the introduction of new formal constraints on presidents? This article focuses on the elites working within the state agencies that execute presidential power, who benefit materially from their authority and have incentives to defy formal constraints placed on their own power. To evaluate this claim, I examine Kenya's 2010 constitution, which intended to reduce the power of Kenya's …
Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys
Why Do Migrant Workers Intend to Extend Their Stay in Host Countries? The Case of Bangladeshi Workers in Malaysia's Manufacturing Sector
This article explores various factors resulting in temporary migrant workers' decisions to extend their stay in host countries by means of a case study of Bangladeshi factory workers in Malaysia. The employment mediation and passage fees paid to brokers and agents by Bangladeshi workers are very large compared with general living standards in Bangladesh. These large sums are increasing steadily as the number of persons desiring to work overseas i…
Filosofía práctica y teoría de la sociedad
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
The Strategic Shuffle
For autocrats facing elections, officers in the internal security apparatus play a crucial role by engaging in coercion on behalf of the incumbent. Yet reliance on these officers introduces a principal‐agent problem: Officers can shirk from the autocrat's demands. To solve this problem, autocrats strategically post officers to different areas based on an area's importance to the election and the expected loyalty of an individual officer, which is…
Political Control
Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually, suggesting fundamental dissimilarities in underpinning logic and goals. We introduce political control as a concept that unifies these different tactics within a single framework and demonstrate the analytical utility of considering seemingly disparate strategies in conv…
An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries
Developing nations demand a different scholarly approach in the field of public administration. We advance an agenda for research that stands on four pillars. First, in the absence of easily accessible data scholars of developing world public administration must assemble it for themselves. Second, building and testing theory plays a paramount role because researchers face limited information. Third, in developing countries, multi‐national and non…
Sudan's Uprising
This article traces the reign and downfall of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's longtime autocrat. Like other autocrats, al-Bashir attempted to prevent coups against his rule by crafting a personalistic regime that weakened important political actors and tied their fates to his own. But Sudan's 2018–19 popular uprising, which resulted in al-Bashir's ousting by his own security forces, suggests that, under pressure, personalistic regimes may quickly evolve …
Continuity despite change
What explains the continuation of strong executive power despite the introduction of new formal constraints on presidents? This article focuses on the elites working within the state agencies that execute presidential power, who benefit materially from their authority and have incentives to defy formal constraints placed on their own power. To evaluate this claim, I examine Kenya's 2010 constitution, which intended to reduce the power of Kenya's …
A State of Change
Many developing countries have recently increased the number of their sub-national administrative units. Existing literature explains this phenomenon by suggesting that because new units serve as patronage to an area, they can help a leader meet local demand for state resources or divide opposition elites. These explanations, however, overlook the costs of new administrative units to a leader facing competitive reelection, in part, because they r…
Regional Governance in Divided Societies
We argue that leaders employ one of two strategies to govern subnational regions. These governance strategies, in turn, condition how leaders appoint and manage the regional executives to whom they delegate authority. In the co-optation strategy, leaders advance local welfare by appointing locally embedded regional executives, who are drawn from the local population and enjoy relatively long tenures. In the suppression strategy, leaders ensure th…
Executive–Legislative Relations, Party Defections, and Lower Level Administrative Unit Proliferation
Over the past 25 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of subnational administrative units within developing countries. Existing literature argues that presidents create new units to deliver patronage to citizens. But proliferation at lower tiers of the state, that are too administratively distant from the president to credibly serve as patronage, does not follow this logic. We build from the premise that the creation of a new l…
Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys
Uneven accountability in the wake of political violence
The government faces a principal-agent problem with lower-level state officers. Officers are often expected to use the state coercive capacity endowed to them to politically benefit the government. But officers can shirk from the government's demands. An officer's actions during bouts of large-scale and highly visible electoral violence reveal the officer's type, thereby providing the government with the information necessary to solve its princip…
Representative bureaucracy, role congruence, and Kenya's gender quota
This article examines the subnational determinants of descriptive representation. Agency managers may be hesitant to hire women uniformly across all localities if they perceive geographic variation in role congruence, or the degree to which a position's duties match gender roles. We expect managerial perceptions to affect hiring patterns even after the adoption of a gender quota intended to improve descriptive representation, as managers will dif…
Coordinated Dis-Coordination
Dissidents mobilizing against a repressive regime benefit from using public information for tactical coordination since widespread knowledge about an upcoming event can increase participation. But public calls to protest make dissidents' anticipated activities legible to the regime, allowing security forces to better stifle mobilization. I examine collective action during Sudan's 2018-19 uprising and find that mobilization appeared to be publicly…
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism
Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local politicians' incentives to distribute government positions to partisan supporters. Other studies instead point to the role of bureaucratic managers in allocating government jobs to close contacts. We jointly consider the relative importance of each source of biased hiring as an allocation problem between managers and politicians who have different preferences regarding public sector hi…
Closing The Gap
Politicians and scholars alike have advocated for land reform as a tool to address political instability and poverty. Yet in many cases of land reform, governments provide land but withhold property rights. Why do leaders withhold these rights, and when do they grant previously withheld rights? The authors argue that land rights are a distributive good that leaders relinquish conservatively and selectively to build popular support. Using microlev…
Dismantling old or forging new clientelistic ties? Sudan’s civil service reform after uprising
Why Do Migrant Workers Intend to Extend Their Stay in Host Countries? The Case of Bangladeshi Workers in Malaysia's Manufacturing Sector
This article explores various factors resulting in temporary migrant workers' decisions to extend their stay in host countries by means of a case study of Bangladeshi factory workers in Malaysia. The employment mediation and passage fees paid to brokers and agents by Bangladeshi workers are very large compared with general living standards in Bangladesh. These large sums are increasing steadily as the number of persons desiring to work overseas i…
New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past
Journal Article New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past Get access Mai Hassan Mai Hassan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 121, Issue 483, April 2022, Pages 321–333, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac002 Published: 07 April 2022 Article history Accepted: 04 April 2022 Corrected and typeset: 07 April 2022 Published: 07 April 2022
Communication, coordination, and surveillance in the shadow of repression
Communication technology helps protesters organize, but also allows the government to monitor and repress their actions. We study this trade‐off in a model where protesters want to show up at the same time and place, but also want to avoid government forces. If leaders of a movement can send messages observed only by other protesters, they can successfully coordinate on a variety of sites and force the government to spread resources thin, helping…
Filosofía práctica y teoría de la sociedad
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Why Do Migrant Workers Intend to Extend Their Stay in Host Countries? The Case of Bangladeshi Workers in Malaysia's Manufacturing Sector
This article explores various factors resulting in temporary migrant workers' decisions to extend their stay in host countries by means of a case study of Bangladeshi factory workers in Malaysia. The employment mediation and passage fees paid to brokers and agents by Bangladeshi workers are very large compared with general living standards in Bangladesh. These large sums are increasing steadily as the number of persons desiring to work overseas i…
Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys
Continuity despite change
What explains the continuation of strong executive power despite the introduction of new formal constraints on presidents? This article focuses on the elites working within the state agencies that execute presidential power, who benefit materially from their authority and have incentives to defy formal constraints placed on their own power. To evaluate this claim, I examine Kenya's 2010 constitution, which intended to reduce the power of Kenya's …
A State of Change
Many developing countries have recently increased the number of their sub-national administrative units. Existing literature explains this phenomenon by suggesting that because new units serve as patronage to an area, they can help a leader meet local demand for state resources or divide opposition elites. These explanations, however, overlook the costs of new administrative units to a leader facing competitive reelection, in part, because they r…
Executive–Legislative Relations, Party Defections, and Lower Level Administrative Unit Proliferation
Over the past 25 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of subnational administrative units within developing countries. Existing literature argues that presidents create new units to deliver patronage to citizens. But proliferation at lower tiers of the state, that are too administratively distant from the president to credibly serve as patronage, does not follow this logic. We build from the premise that the creation of a new l…
The Strategic Shuffle
For autocrats facing elections, officers in the internal security apparatus play a crucial role by engaging in coercion on behalf of the incumbent. Yet reliance on these officers introduces a principal‐agent problem: Officers can shirk from the autocrat's demands. To solve this problem, autocrats strategically post officers to different areas based on an area's importance to the election and the expected loyalty of an individual officer, which is…
Uneven accountability in the wake of political violence
The government faces a principal-agent problem with lower-level state officers. Officers are often expected to use the state coercive capacity endowed to them to politically benefit the government. But officers can shirk from the government's demands. An officer's actions during bouts of large-scale and highly visible electoral violence reveal the officer's type, thereby providing the government with the information necessary to solve its princip…
Sudan's Uprising
This article traces the reign and downfall of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's longtime autocrat. Like other autocrats, al-Bashir attempted to prevent coups against his rule by crafting a personalistic regime that weakened important political actors and tied their fates to his own. But Sudan's 2018–19 popular uprising, which resulted in al-Bashir's ousting by his own security forces, suggests that, under pressure, personalistic regimes may quickly evolve …
The local politics of resource distribution
How have successive Kenyan governments distributed development resources since Independence? Resource distribution institutions during Kenya’s first five decades after Independence followed either a center-led or local-led track. Each president designed his own center-led resource distribution strategies, and distributed state resources disproportionately to his co-ethnic base in light of the group’s geographic location and representation in the …
Regime Threats and State Solutions
The administrative state is a powerful tool because it can control the population and, in moments of crisis, help leaders put down popular threats to their rule. But a state does not act; bureaucrats work through the state to carry out a leader's demands. In turn, leaders attempt to use their authority over the state to manage bureaucrats in a way that induces bureaucratic behavior that furthers their policy and political goals. Focusing on Kenya…
Representative bureaucracy, role congruence, and Kenya's gender quota
This article examines the subnational determinants of descriptive representation. Agency managers may be hesitant to hire women uniformly across all localities if they perceive geographic variation in role congruence, or the degree to which a position's duties match gender roles. We expect managerial perceptions to affect hiring patterns even after the adoption of a gender quota intended to improve descriptive representation, as managers will dif…
An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries
Developing nations demand a different scholarly approach in the field of public administration. We advance an agenda for research that stands on four pillars. First, in the absence of easily accessible data scholars of developing world public administration must assemble it for themselves. Second, building and testing theory plays a paramount role because researchers face limited information. Third, in developing countries, multi‐national and non…
Regional Governance in Divided Societies
We argue that leaders employ one of two strategies to govern subnational regions. These governance strategies, in turn, condition how leaders appoint and manage the regional executives to whom they delegate authority. In the co-optation strategy, leaders advance local welfare by appointing locally embedded regional executives, who are drawn from the local population and enjoy relatively long tenures. In the suppression strategy, leaders ensure th…
Political Control
Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually, suggesting fundamental dissimilarities in underpinning logic and goals. We introduce political control as a concept that unifies these different tactics within a single framework and demonstrate the analytical utility of considering seemingly disparate strategies in conv…
New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past
Journal Article New Insights On Africa’s Autocratic Past Get access Mai Hassan Mai Hassan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 121, Issue 483, April 2022, Pages 321–333, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac002 Published: 07 April 2022 Article history Accepted: 04 April 2022 Corrected and typeset: 07 April 2022 Published: 07 April 2022
Dismantling old or forging new clientelistic ties? Sudan’s civil service reform after uprising
Closing The Gap
Politicians and scholars alike have advocated for land reform as a tool to address political instability and poverty. Yet in many cases of land reform, governments provide land but withhold property rights. Why do leaders withhold these rights, and when do they grant previously withheld rights? The authors argue that land rights are a distributive good that leaders relinquish conservatively and selectively to build popular support. Using microlev…
Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity in the Architectural Landscape of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This research explores the role of religious moderation centers in Perguruan Tinggi Keagamaan Islam Negeri (PTKIN), focusing on the integration between faith and history to be applied to PTKIN students. The context of this research reflects a deep need to understand how the Religious Moderation Center contributes crucially to achieving harmony in the Islamic academic environment. The research questions are directed at two main aspects of the disc…
Coordinated Dis-Coordination
Dissidents mobilizing against a repressive regime benefit from using public information for tactical coordination since widespread knowledge about an upcoming event can increase participation. But public calls to protest make dissidents' anticipated activities legible to the regime, allowing security forces to better stifle mobilization. I examine collective action during Sudan's 2018-19 uprising and find that mobilization appeared to be publicly…
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism
Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local politicians' incentives to distribute government positions to partisan supporters. Other studies instead point to the role of bureaucratic managers in allocating government jobs to close contacts. We jointly consider the relative importance of each source of biased hiring as an allocation problem between managers and politicians who have different preferences regarding public sector hi…
The Synergy of Psychological Capital and Job Embeddedness
Psychological capital (PsyCap), comprising hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism, is a critical psychological resource that enhances employee retention (ER) in the hospitality industry. Grounded in the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this study examines the direct impact of PsyCap on ER and explores job embeddedness (JE) as a mediating factor. JE represents the psychological and social forces that keep employees attached to their …
Communication, coordination, and surveillance in the shadow of repression
Communication technology helps protesters organize, but also allows the government to monitor and repress their actions. We study this trade‐off in a model where protesters want to show up at the same time and place, but also want to avoid government forces. If leaders of a movement can send messages observed only by other protesters, they can successfully coordinate on a variety of sites and force the government to spread resources thin, helping…
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