Governance And The Depoliticisation Of Development

Author : Wil Hout,Richard Robison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134037971

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Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development by Wil Hout,Richard Robison Pdf

This book is about the way ‘governance’ has become the new orthodoxy of development, following earlier failed attempts at building working market economies through policy reform in developing countries. Considering how its proponents define ‘good governance’, the contributors to this volume assess why programmes of governance building in developing countries have proven to be no less problematic than the previous agendas of market reform. Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development challenges ideas that deeper political and social problems of development may be addressed by institutional or governance fixes. It examines the principles and prescriptions of ‘good’ governance as part of larger conflicts over power and its distribution. The volume provides: a series of case studies from Latin America, Middle East and Asia a link to current theorising on neoliberalism and the post-Washington Consensus a focus on governance at the global and national levels from a comparative perspective The collection will be essential reading for researchers and scholars of international political economy, governance studies and political science.

Author : Wil Hout,Richard Robison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134037988

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Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development by Wil Hout,Richard Robison Pdf

This book is about the way ‘governance’ has become the new orthodoxy of development, following earlier failed attempts at building working market economies through policy reform in developing countries. Considering how its proponents define ‘good governance’, the contributors to this volume assess why programmes of governance building in developing countries have proven to be no less problematic than the previous agendas of market reform. Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development challenges ideas that deeper political and social problems of development may be addressed by institutional or governance fixes. It examines the principles and prescriptions of ‘good’ governance as part of larger conflicts over power and its distribution. The volume provides: a series of case studies from Latin America, Middle East and Asia a link to current theorising on neoliberalism and the post-Washington Consensus a focus on governance at the global and national levels from a comparative perspective The collection will be essential reading for researchers and scholars of international political economy, governance studies and political science.

Author : Flinders, Matt,Wood, Matt
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447334583

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Tracing the political by Flinders, Matt,Wood, Matt Pdf

Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or ‘quangos’, and portrayed the associated issues, like monetary or drug policy, as technocratic or managerial. At the same time an increasing number of important political decisions are being removed from democratic public debate altogether, leading many commentators to argue that they are part of a ‘crisis of democracy’, marking the ‘end of politics’. Tracing the political uses a broad range of international case studies to chart the politicising and depoliticising dynamics that shape debates about the future of governance and the liberal democratic state. The book is part of the New perspectives in policy and politics series, and will be an important text for students of politics and policy, as well as researchers and policy makers.

Author : Ahmed Shafiqul Huque,Habib Zafarullah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351562508

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International Development Governance by Ahmed Shafiqul Huque,Habib Zafarullah Pdf

The establishment of good governance is a major challenge for the developing world, along with the need to sustain the progress resulting from developmental efforts. Although there are numerous studies on the development and governance of emerging nations, few volumes make a serious effort to bring together these two critical concepts. International Development Governance combines the two concepts - development and governance - by examining the issues and problems faced by nations in their attempts to establish sustainable governance. This textbook also initiates discussions on the concept of development governance in an international context. The book fills the gap in existing literature by drawing upon the experience and expertise of scholars from a broad spectrum of knowledge. Their views explain the issues and problems with reference to a number of tools that could establish "development governance" and sustain it. The text offers in-depth examinations of developmental sectors, resulting in a textbook that will inspire future public officials, policy makers, and consultants to contribute to the betterment of life for citizens of developing countries.

Author : Paul Fawcett,Matthew Flinders,Colin Hay,Matthew Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192537799

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Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance by Paul Fawcett,Matthew Flinders,Colin Hay,Matthew Wood Pdf

There is a mounting body of evidence pointing towards rising levels of public dissatisfaction with the formal political process. Depoliticization refers to a more discrete range of contemporary strategies that add to this growing trend towards anti-politics by either removing or displacing the potential for choice, collective agency, and deliberation. This book examines the relationship between these two trends as understood within the broader shift towards governance. It brings together a number of contributions from scholars who have a varied range of concerns but who nevertheless share a common interest in developing the concept of depoliticization through their engagement with a set of theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and empirical questions. This volume explores these questions from a variety of different perspectives and uses a number of different empirical examples and case studies from both within the nation state as well as from other regional, global, and multi-level arenas. In this context, this volume examines the potential and limits of depoliticization as a concept and its position and contribution in the nexus between the larger and more established literatures on governance and anti-politics.

Author : Marieke Louis,Lucile Maertens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429883262

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Why International Organizations Hate Politics by Marieke Louis,Lucile Maertens Pdf

Building on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO everyday activities while allowing them to remain engaged in politics, even when they pretend not to. Delving into the inner dynamics of global governance, this book develops an analytical framework on why IOs "hate" politics by bringing together practices and logics of depoliticization in a wide variety of historical, geographic and organizational contexts. With multiple case studies in the fields of labor rights and economic regulation, environmental protection, development and humanitarian aid, peacekeeping, among others this book shows that depoliticization is enacted in a series of overlapping, sometimes mundane, practices resulting from the complex interaction between professional habits, organizational cultures and individual tactics. By approaching the consequences of these practices in terms of logics, the book addresses the instrumental dimension of depoliticization without assuming that IO actors necessarily intend to depoliticize their action or global problems. For IO scholars and students, this book sheds new light on IO politics by clarifying one often taken-for-granted dimension of their everyday activities, precisely that of depoliticization. It will also be of interest to other researchers working in the fields of political science, international relations, international political sociology, international political economy, international public administration, history, law, sociology, anthropology and geography as well as IO practitioners.

Author : Eris D. Schoburgh,John Martin,Sonia Gatchair
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137558367

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Developmental Local Governance by Eris D. Schoburgh,John Martin,Sonia Gatchair Pdf

The primary purpose of this edited collection is to evaluate critically the relationship between local government and national economic development. It focuses on how the relationship between local government and development is structured, and the specific institutional arrangements at national and subnational levels that might facilitate local government's assumption of the role of development agent. In light of the contradictory outcomes of development and implied experimentation with new modalities, post-development discourse provides a useful explanatory framework for the book. Schoburgh, Martin and Gatchair's central argument is that the pursuit of national developmental goals is given a sustainable foundation when development planning and strategies take into account elements that have the potential to determine the rate of social transformation. Their emphasis on localism establishes a clear link between local government and local economic development in the context of developing countries.

Author : Japhy Wilson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748683000

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Post-Political and its Discontents by Japhy Wilson Pdf

Our age is celebrated as the triumph of liberal democracy. Yet it is also marked by a narrowing of party differences, a decline in voter participation, a rise in nationalist and religious fundamentalisms and an explosion of popular protests that challenge technocratic governance and the power of markets in the name of democracy itself. This book seeks to make sense of this situation by critically engaging with the influential theory of 'the post-political' developed by Chantal Mouffe, Jacques Ranciere, Slavoj Zizek and others. Through a multi-dimensional and fiercely contested assessment of contemporary depoliticization, 'The Post-Political and Its Discontents' urges us to confront the closure of our political horizons, and to re-imagine the possibility of emancipatory change.

Author : Jim Buller,Pınar E. Dönmez,Adam Standring,Matthew Wood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319642369

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Comparing Strategies of (De)Politicisation in Europe by Jim Buller,Pınar E. Dönmez,Adam Standring,Matthew Wood Pdf

This book investigates the extent to which depoliticisation strategies, used to disguise the political character of decision-making, have become the established mode of governance within societies. Increasingly, commentators suggest that the dominance of depoliticisation is leading to a crisis of representative democracy or even the end of politics, but is this really true? This book examines the circumstances under which depoliticisation techniques can be challenged, whether such resistance is successful and how we might understand this process. It addresses these questions by adopting a novel comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Scholars from a range of European countries scrutinise the contingent nature of depoliticisation through a collection of case studies, including: economic policy; transport; the environment; housing; urban politics; and government corruption. The book will be appeal to academics and students across the fields of politics, sociology, urban geography, philosophy and public policy.

Author : John Harriss
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9781843310495

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Depoliticizing Development by John Harriss Pdf

The idea of social capital, meaning, most simply put, "social connections" was unheard of outside a small circle of sociologists until very recently. Now it is proclaimed by the World Bank to be the "missing link" in international development and it has become the subject of a flurry of books and research papers. This book explores the origins of the idea of social capital and its diverse meanings in the work of James Coleman, Pierre Bourdieu and of Robert Putnam, who is responsible, more than any other, through his work on Italy and the United States, for its extraordinary rise. John Harriss then asks why this notion should have taken off in the dramatic way that it has done and finds, in its uses by the World Bank the attempt systematically to obscure class relations and power. Social capital has thus come to play a significant part in "the anti-politics machine" that is constituted by the discourses of international development. This powerful and lucid critique will be of immense value to all those interested in development studies, including sociologists, economists, planners, NGOs and other activists.

Author : Pranab K. Bardhan,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre
Publisher : Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020700055

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The Role of Governance in Economic Development by Pranab K. Bardhan,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre Pdf

Author : Haroon A. Khan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317567196

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The Idea of Good Governance and the Politics of the Global South by Haroon A. Khan Pdf

One of the major objectives of good governance is human development. Many worry that without good governance, many developing countries may become failed states. Using one of the worst industrial disasters in Bangladesh to date, Haroon A. Khan helps further our understanding of the importance of bureaucratic capacity for achieving good governance and offers a new paradigm for a merit system to improve governance. In doing so, he introduces the reader to the concept of good governance and its importance by investigating its relationship with failed states, globalization, bureaucratic effectiveness, and human development. The Idea of Good Governance and the Politics of the Global South will be useful for the students interested in political science, public administration and international relations.

Author : Mark Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351910453

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Policy Transfer in Global Perspective by Mark Evans Pdf

The world of public policy is becoming increasingly small due to dramatic changes in global communications, political and economic institutional structures, and to nation states themselves. This book evaluates the implications of these changes and challenges for both the study and the practice of policy transfer, and provides a unique understanding of the relationship between systemic globalizing forces and the increasing scope and intensity of policy transfer activity. It provides: an explanation of policy transfer as a process of organizational learning; an insight into how and why such processes are studied by policy scientists; an evaluation of its use by policy practitioners; and the first published collection of policy transfer case studies between developed countries, from developed to developing countries, and from developing countries.

Author : David Alan Craig,Doug Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134363759

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Development Beyond Neoliberalism? by David Alan Craig,Doug Porter Pdf

Development’s current focus – poverty reduction and good governance – signals a turn away from the older neoliberal preoccupation with structural adjustment, privatization and downsizing the state. For some, the new emphases on empowering and securing the poor through basic service delivery, local partnership, decentralization and institution building constitute a decisive break with the past and a whole set of new development possibilities beyond neoliberalism. Taking a wider historical perspective, this book charts the emergence of poverty reduction and governance at the centre of development. It shows that the Poverty Reduction paradigm does indeed mark a shift in the wider liberal project that has underpinned development: precisely what is new, and what this means for how the poor are governed, are described here in detail. This book provides a compelling history of development doctrine and practice, and in particular offers the first comprehensive account of the last twenty years, and development’s shift towards a new political economy of institution building, decentralized governance and local partnerships. The story is illustrated with extensive case studies from first hand experience in Vietnam, Uganda, Pakistan and New Zealand.

Author : Brian Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137062185

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Good Governance and Development by Brian Smith Pdf

An exploration of the implications of the 'good governance' agendas for developing and newly democratized countries. The book assesses the 'good governance' agenda and examines the view of the international development agencies. Finally it considers the contribution political science can make to an understanding of each dimension of governance.