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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.

The Politics of Government Growth

Author : William C. Lubenow
Publisher : [Newton Abbot, Eng.] : David & Charles ; [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780715351598
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Government Growth written by William C. Lubenow and published by [Newton Abbot, Eng.] : David & Charles ; [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Explaining the Growth of Government

Author : J.A. Lybeck
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483294978
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Explaining the Growth of Government written by J.A. Lybeck and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explain the post-war growth of the public sector in a number of developed economies. The purpose is to see whether scientists familiar with their respective countries' institutional, political and economic framework, but still working as a group, can advance some common factors behind the growth of government.

More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America

Author : Robert M. Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198021526
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America written by Robert M. Collins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored the economy to focus on cultural, social, and political themes, from the birth of modern feminism to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now a scholar has stepped forward to place the economy back in its rightful place, at the center of his historical narrative. In More, Robert M. Collins reexamines the history of the United States from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, focusing on the federal government's determined pursuit of economic growth. After tracing the emergence of growth as a priority during FDR's presidency, Collins explores the record of successive administrations, highlighting both their success in fostering growth and its partisan uses. Collins reveals that the obsession with growth appears not only as a matter of policy, but as an expression of Cold War ideology--both a means to pay for the arms build-up and proof of the superiority of the United States' market economy. But under Johnson, this enthusiasm sparked a crisis: spending on Vietnam unleashed runaway inflation, while the nation struggled with the moral consequences of its prosperity, reflected in books such as John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. More continues up to the end of the 1990s, as Collins explains the real impact of Reagan's policies and astutely assesses Clinton's "disciplined growthmanship," which combined deficit reduction and a relaxed but watchful monetary policy by the Federal Reserve. Writing with eloquence and analytical clarity, Robert M. Collins offers a startlingly new framework for understanding the history of postwar America.

Governments, Markets, and Growth

Author : John Zysman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801492525
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Governments, Markets, and Growth written by John Zysman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zysman demonstrates that there is a direct relationship between a nation's financial system and its government's ability to restart the growth engine.

The Politics of Uneven Development

Author : Richard F. Doner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139475657
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Uneven Development written by Richard F. Doner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some middle-income countries diversify their economies but fail to upgrade – to produce world-class products based on local inputs and technological capacities? Why have the 'little tigers' of Southeast Asia, such as Thailand, continued to lag behind the Newly Industrializing Countries of East Asia? Richard Doner goes beyond 'political will' by emphasizing institutional capacities and political pressures: development challenges vary; upgrading poses tough challenges that require robust institutional capacities. Such strengths are political in origin. They reflect pressures, such as security threats and resource constraints, which motivate political leaders to focus on efficiency more than clientelist payoffs. Such pressures help to explain the political institutions – 'veto players' – through which leaders operate. Doner assesses this argument by analyzing Thai development historically, in three sectors (sugar, textiles, and autos) and in comparison with both weaker and stronger competitors (Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Brazil, and South Korea).

See Government Grow

Author : Gareth Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book See Government Grow written by Gareth Davies and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian's pathbreaking book uses federal education policy from the Great Society to Reagan's New Morning to demonstrate how innovative policies become entrenched irrespective of who occupies the White House.

The Growth of Government in Developed Economies

Author : Johan A. Lybeck
Publisher : Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Growth of Government in Developed Economies written by Johan A. Lybeck and published by Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower. This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Budgets and Bureaucrats

Author : Thomas E. Borcherding
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Budgets and Bureaucrats written by Thomas E. Borcherding and published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally these essays were developed as papers given at the ... Workshop on Non-market Bureaucracy held at V.P.I.'s Center for the Study of Public Choice during the academic year 1972-73."

Understanding United States Government Growth

Author : William Dale Berry
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding United States Government Growth written by William Dale Berry and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987-10-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding United States Government Growth develops and tests alternative explanations of government growth since World War II. It opens with an analysis of debate about the causes and consequences of government growth, including the excessive government view that the public sector has grown beyond the scope demanded by citizens due to its own structural defects, and the responsive interpretation that government has gown because it has reacted appropriately to external public demands. The authors review the major political and economic explanations for government growth and criticize earlier empirical attempts to test these explanations. In the second half of the book, they distinguish four components of government growth: growth in the cost of government and growth in the scope of government activities in three domains--transfer payments, domestic purchases, and defense purchases. Both responsive and excessive explanations of each of these components of growth are developed and tested to allow an evaluation of the validity of the two contrasting views about big government.

Pork Barrel Politics

Author : Andrew H. Sidman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550405
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Pork Barrel Politics written by Andrew H. Sidman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom holds that legislators who bring “pork”—federal funds for local projects—back home to their districts are better able to fend off potential challengers. For more than four decades, however, the empirical support for this belief has been mixed. Some studies have found that securing federal spending has no electoral effects at best or can even cost incumbent legislators votes. In Pork Barrel Politics, Andrew H. Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization affects the electoral influence of district-level federal spending. He argues that the average voter sees the pork barrel as an aspect of the larger issue of government spending, determined by partisanship and ideology. It is only when the political world becomes more divided over everything else that the average voter pays attention to pork, linking it to their general preferences over government spending. Using data on pork barrel spending from 1986 through 2012 and public works spending since 1876 along with analyses of district-level outcomes and incumbent success, Sidman demonstrates the rising power of polarization in United States elections. During periods of low polarization, pork barrel spending has little impact, but when polarization is high, it affects primary competition, campaign spending, and vote share in general elections. Pork Barrel Politics is an empirically rich account of the surprising repercussions of bringing pork home, with important consequences in our polarized era.

England's "Prussian Minister"

Author : Anthony Brundage
Publisher : University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book England's "Prussian Minister" written by Anthony Brundage and published by University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This political biography offers a fresh critical assessment of one of the major reformers of nineteenth-century Britain. Edwin Chadwick, lawyer, journalist, and protégé of the great Utilitarian sage Jeremy Bentham, spent the next twenty two years after Bentham's death in 1832 in government service. As a member of various royal commissions investigating such social problems as child labor in factories, the poor laws, crime, and public health, Chadwick held the post of secretary to the Poor Law Commissioners (1834-47) and served as a member of the General Board of Health (1848-54). Brundage investigates the process of government growth and modernization in Britain during these critical years. He traces the relationship between Chadwick's ideas and his policy, and the interaction of personal ambition with both. By looking in detail not only at Chadwick's ideas and their sources, but at his political strategies and maneuvers as well, the author offers a substantially new interpretation of the man and the period. The work reflects careful research in the voluminous Chadwick manuscripts at University College, the letters and papers of those connected with Chadwick, and the numerous official reports written entirely or partially by Chadwick. The result, in the words of one reviewer, is a work "several levels beyond" the two earlier biographies of Chadwick. Previous historians have seen Chadwick as a doctrinaire Benthamite, determined to apply his master's blueprints to the ramshackle institutions of British government in order to make them rational, efficient, and responsive to the problems resulting from rapid industrialization and urbanization. While not refuting this assessment, the author reveals other sides of Chadwick's character. Chadwick is shown to have been a deeply ambitious, often devious figure whose strategies frequently backfired, causing damage not only to his own career but to the reforms he espoused. Intensely jealous of rivals, resentful of superiors, and contemptuous of those who valued local self-government, Chadwick made many enemies and was denounced for his "Prussian" tendencies. The opposition to him and his policies finally led to his ouster from the General Board of Health in 1854, and he never again held public office. This full-bodied portrait of a brilliant and dedicated man will be of value to specialists and others interested in nineteenth-century British political, social, and administrative history. Brundage demonstrates that the process of governmental reform was less tidy and straightforward than is sometimes thought, and that the traditional paternalist ethos of government, directed by an aristocratic parliament, did not crumble under Chadwick's Benthamite assault on its structure and methods.

Coalition Politics and Economic Development

Author : Irfan Nooruddin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494023
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Coalition Politics and Economic Development written by Irfan Nooruddin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalition Politics and Economic Development challenges the conventional wisdom that coalition government hinders necessary policy reform in developing countries. Irfan Nooruddin presents a fresh theory that institutionalized gridlock, by reducing policy volatility and stabilizing investor expectations, is actually good for economic growth. Successful national economic performance, he argues, is the consequence of having the right configuration of national political institutions. Countries in which leaders must compromise to form policy are better able to commit credibly to investors and therefore enjoy higher and more stable rates of economic development. Quantitative analysis of business surveys and national economic data together with historical case studies of five countries provide evidence for these claims. This is an original analysis of the relationship between political institutions and national economic performance in the developing world and will appeal to scholars and advanced students of political economy, economic development and comparative politics.

Deals and Development

Author : Lant Pritchett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192521667
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Deals and Development written by Lant Pritchett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few of these countries been able to sustain growth over decades? Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes seeks to answer these questions and many more through a novel conceptual framework built from a political economy of business-government relations. Economic growth for most developing countries is not a linear process. Growth instead proceeds in booms and busts, yet most frameworks for thinking about economic growth are built on the faulty assumption that a country's economic performance is largely stable. Deals and Development explains how growth episodes emerge and when growth, once ignited, is maintained for a sustained period. It applies its new framework to examine the growth of countries across a range of institutional and political contexts in Africa and Asia, using the examples of Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Through these country analyses it demonstrates the explanatory power of its framework and the importance of feedback cycles in which economic trends interact with political behaviour to either sustain or terminate a growth episode. Offering a lens through which to analyse complex scenarios and unwieldy amounts of information, this book provides actionable levers of intervention to bring around reform and improve a country's chance at achieving transformative economic growth.

Big-city Politics, Governance, and Fiscal Constraints

Author : George E. Peterson
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 : 9780877665731
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Big-city Politics, Governance, and Fiscal Constraints written by George E. Peterson and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1994 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big-city mayors and other political leaders face the triple challenge of assembling a winning political coalition; translating this into an effective governing coalition; and coping with a tightening local budget constraint. The challenge is still greater when elections have produced a change in ethnic control of local government, bringing into power new groups that want to use government spending to serve their constituents' demands but are resisted by those controlling the economic resources. This volume explores the political transition now going on in big cities. One group of chapters examines recent electoral politics in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Antonio, where different types of ethnic and class lines have been drawn, and where different strategies have been employed to adjust political machines to the new realities. A second group of chapters considers the business of governing under the conflicting pressures of community organizations, the press, the business community, and higher levels of government. A final group of chapters examines the fiscal and budgetary constraints upon big-city governments, and the difficulty that these governments, no matter how well motivated, face in generating jobs and economic opportunity for their political constituents.

Politics and Economic Growth

Author : Aymo Brunetti
Publisher : Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Economic Growth written by Aymo Brunetti and published by Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond Politics

Author : Randy T. Simmons
Publisher : Independent Institute
ISBN 13 : 1598130595
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Politics written by Randy T. Simmons and published by Independent Institute. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing students of economics, politics, and policy with a concise explanation of public choice, markets, property, and political and economic processes, this record identifies what kinds of actions are beyond the ability of government. Combining public choice with studies of the value of property rights, markets, and institutions, this account produces a much different picture of modern political economy than the one accepted by mainstream political scientists and welfare economists. It demonstrates that when citizens request that their governments do more than it is possible, net benefits are reduced, costs are increased, and wealth and freedom are diminished. Solutions are also suggested with the goal to improve the lot of those who should be the ultimate sovereigns in a democracy: the citizens.