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Making Politics Work for Development

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464807744
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Making Politics Work for Development written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.

Politics and Development

Author : Olle Törnquist
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761959342
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Development written by Olle Törnquist and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-02-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major textbook provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the main analytical approaches and their use in the study of third world politics and development. The author outlines the difficulties in the various analytical approaches to the study of development within political science; presents a critical overview of each of the main schools of thought and explores the contemporary issue of democratization to illustrate how students can apply a framework for research and critically develop a perspective on their own.

Society, Politics & Economic Development

Author : Irma Adelman
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society, Politics & Economic Development written by Irma Adelman and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of aspects of economic development in developing countries - covers political aspects, social change, patterns of economic growth, efficiency in government and public administration, etc., and includes the research methods and statistical methods used in the study. Bibliography pp. 293 to 297.

Understanding Political Development

Author : Myron Weiner
Publisher : Waveland PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9780881337945
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Political Development written by Myron Weiner and published by Waveland PressInc. This book was released on 1994 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics and Society in the South

Author : Earl Black
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674689596
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Society in the South written by Earl Black and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a systematic interpretation of the most important national and state tendencies in southern politics since 1920. The authors contend that, notable improvements in race relations aside, the central tendencies in southern politics are primarily established by the values, beliefs, and objectives of the expanding white urban middle class.

Political Development in the New States

Author : Edward Shils
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Political Development in the New States written by Edward Shils and published by De Gruyter Mouton. This book was released on 1962 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Political Lives of Information

Author : Janaki Srinivasan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262370379
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Political Lives of Information written by Janaki Srinivasan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development. Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in India—the circulation of price information in a fish market in Kerala, government information in information kiosks operated by a nonprofit in Puducherry, and a political campaign demanding a right to information in Rajasthan—to explore three uses of information to support goals of social change. Countering claims that information is naturally and universally empowering, Srinivasan shows how the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender. Srinivasan draws on archival and ethnographic research to challenge the idea of information as objective and factual. Using the concept of an “information order,” she examines how the meaning and value of information reflect the social relations in which it is embedded. She asks why casting information as a tool of development and solution to poverty appeals to actors across the political spectrum. She also shows how the power to label some things information and others not is at least as significant as the capacity to subsequently produce, access, and leverage information. The more faith we place in what information can do, she cautions, the less attention we pay to its political lives and to the role of specific social structures, individual agency, and material form in the defining, production, and use of that information.

Politics and Society in the Developing World

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134615906
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Society in the Developing World written by Mehran Kamrava and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a welcome new edition, which completely updates and revises the very popular first edition, Politics and Society in the Third World. Mehran Kamrava has brought the book in line with the major changes in global politics, and the politics and social issues of the developing world. The book examines key issues such as democratisation: civil society organisations and NGOs, 'political society', state collapse, democratic bargains and transition, consolidation and problems of legitimacy, elections, multi-party politics; industrial development; dependency theory and globalisation; the roles of the IMF and the World Bank, the GATT and other multinational institutions; urbanisation; social change; the increasing influence of western values, capital and institutions; urbanisation; social change; the increasing influence of western values, capital and institutions; political culture: its role and impact in newly democratic developing countries; revolution; and gives more examples from Africa, East Asia and rural societies.

Empowerment

Author : John Friedmann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1557863008
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Empowerment written by John Friedmann and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1992-07-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-thirds of the population of the world are poor, and their number is growing in the first as well as in the third world, despite billions of dollars of aid. The economic development policies of the last two decades, and the theory which gave rise to them, have been discredited. The rich are disillusioned, apprehensive or uninterested, while the poor are embittered and without hope, the victims and agents of ignorance, instability and environmental degradation. The need for radical rethinking is urgent: this book makes an important contribution towards that end. John Friedmann argues that poverty should be seen not merely in material terms, but as social, political and psychological powerlessness. He presents the case for an alternative development committed to empowering the poor in their own communities, and to mobilizing them for political participation on a wider scale. In contrast to centralized development policies devised and implemented at the national and international level, alternative development restores the initiative to those in need, on the grounds that unless people have an active role in directing their own destinies long-term progress will not be achieved. The author takes the household as the strategic starting-point - stressing its moral, political and economic potential - as a source of continuity and as a location for production. From this basis he propounds a politics of emancipation that would enable the disempowered poor to assert their rights. Empowerment provides a morally-informed theoretical framework for a development policy that meets the needs of its recipients rather than of its makers.

The Developing World

Author : E. Ike Udogu
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810884763
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Developing World written by E. Ike Udogu and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nation-states in the developing world have seen a renaissance in their political, social, and economic structures. Newly industrializing countries like Brazil, Mexico, China, and India are poised to claim the 21st century as their own. But economic conditions in many nations of the developing world still leave much to be desired, especially with respect to its marginalized citizens, whose incomes are often less than two dollars a day. Scholars continue to ask what academics, political actors, economic entrepreneurs, and others—committed to tackling the bane of underdevelopment in the developing world—can do to improve the plight of these nations’ destitute populations. The Developing World: Critical Issues in Politics and Society explores the challenges presented by political, cultural, religious, social, and economic practices to the future development of these nation-states. The essays gathered here—written by seasoned scholars with deep social, political, and academic roots in Africa, Asia, and Latin America—explain how improvements in politics, social arrangements, and information communication technologies contribute to the effectiveness of emerging nations’ internal politics and their influence on world affairs. Individual essays consider such key issues as how to develop more efficiently the processes of liberal democratization how to apply more uniformly the law enforcement policies of governments to all citizens in a society how the marginalization of women hampers national development how the political development of Mexico as a “linguistic regional power” has influenced the rest of Central America how development and protection of the environment are linked how an effective application of information communication technologies can enhance the quality of education and boost growth at all levels in a polity This work will interest scholars focused on the developing world, social and public policy, international politics, and social and political theory.

Politics, power and community development

Author : Meade, Rosie
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447317408
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Politics, power and community development written by Meade, Rosie and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing impact of neoliberalism across the globe means that a complex interplay of democratic, economic and managerial rationalities now frame the parameters and practices of community development. This book explores how contemporary politics, and the power relations it reflects and projects, is shaping the field today. This first title in the timely Rethinking Community Development series presents unique and critical reflections on policy and practice in Taiwan, Australia, India, South Africa, Burundi, Germany, the USA, Ireland, Malawi, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia and the UK. It addresses the global dominance of neoliberalism, and the extent to which practitioners, activists and programmes can challenge, critique, engage with or resist its influence. Addressing key dilemmas and challenges being navigated by students, academics, professionals and activists, this is a vital intellectual and practical resource.

The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development

Author : Carol Lancaster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199981817
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development written by Carol Lancaster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many discussions of nations' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broad mass of the public? The process of development policy implementation, however, is always and inevitably political. Put simply, regime type matters when it comes to deciding on a course of development to follow. Further, political institutions matter. When a government's institutional capacity is low, the chances of success severely decline, regardless of the merits of the development plan. In The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development, two of America's leading political scientists on the issue, Carol Lancaster and Nicolas van de Walle, have assembled an international cast of leading scholars to craft a broad, state-of-the-art work on this vitally important topic. This volume is divided into five sections: major theories of the politics of development, organized historically (e.g. modernization theory, dependency theory, the Washington consensus of 'policies without politics,' etc.); key domestic factors and variables; key international factors and variables; political systems and structures; and geographical perspectives, inclusive of regional dynamics. A comprehensive and cross-regional examination on key issues of political development, this Handbook not only provides an authoritative synthesis of past scholarship, but also sets the agenda for future research in this discipline.

An Introduction to Politics, State and Society

Author : James W McAuley
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803979321
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Politics, State and Society written by James W McAuley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-06-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new textbook will equip students with a complete understanding of contemporary politics, state and society in the United Kingdom today. Key underlying themes include: The differences between traditional and alternative sites of power and what we mean by political the relationships between politics, society and how individuals become and remain engaged with politics the rapid transformations in contemporary social structures and their impact on social and political life the role of human agency and its significance to social and political action and movements contemporary cultural and social dislocations and their impact on some of the major contested areas of political life today. Key features include: Key concepts and issues Key theorists and writers Discussion questions Comprehensive and accessible, An Introduction to Politics, State & Society is an essential text for all undergraduate students of politics, the contemporary state, power and political sociology.

Political Development and Social Change

Author : Jason Leonard Finkle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Political Development and Social Change written by Jason Leonard Finkle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1971 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of writings on political aspects of social change and economic development in developing countries - covers such topics as traditional and transitional societies, nationalist ideology, military government, industrialization, urbanization, social participation, social structure, cultural factors, interest groups, political party systems, social integration, individualism and the role of the government and of intellectuals in economic growth, etc. References and statistical tables.

Markets and Development

Author : Toby Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131735852X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Markets and Development written by Toby Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markets and Development presents a series of critical contributions focused on the political relationship between citizens, civil society, and neoliberal development policy’s latest form. The dramatic increase of ‘access to finance’ investments, newly gender-sensitive approaches to building neoliberal labour markets, the universal promotion of public-private partnerships, and the ‘development financing’ of extractive industries, have all seen citizens, social movements, and NGOs variously engaged in, and against, neoliberalism like never before. The precise form that this engagement takes is conditioned by both the perceived and real opportunities, and the risks, of an agenda which seeks to intern ‘emerging’ and ‘frontier markets’ deep within a concretising world market, with transformative repercussions for both those involved and, notably, for state-society relations. The contributors to this volume focus on essential aspects of the contemporary neoliberal development agenda and its relationship to and with citizens and civil society, tackling questions related to the roles that various actors within civil society in the underdeveloped world are playing under late capitalism, and how these roles relate to current efforts to establish and extend markets, and market society more broadly, in a neoliberal image. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Politics in the Developing World

Author : Peter J. Burnell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198737432
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Politics in the Developing World written by Peter J. Burnell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook deals with central political themes and issues in the developing world, including globalisation, inequality, identity, religion, the military, democracy, the environment and policy development.

Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World

Author : Jeffrey Haynes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745666965
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World written by Jeffrey Haynes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an accessible account of popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World. Focusing on poor and marginalized groups within developing countries, it shows how these groups have been stimulated into action by recent demands for political and economic change. Haynes describes the growing interest in democratic change in the Third World during the 1980s and 1990s, and argues that demands for democracy, human rights and economic change were a widespread catalyst for the emergence of hundreds of thousands of popular movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Sometimes these took the form of demands for more political representation and greater economic development; others were concerned with environmental protection, the broad position of women and the establishment of Islamic states and societies. Haynes argues that these emerging popular organizations are best regarded as building blocks of civil society that, in time, will enhance the democratic nature of many political environments in the Third World. The book will be welcomed by students and researchers in development studies, politics and sociology.