Pathways to development from politics to power
'Pathways to Development' draws on a major comparative research effort to present new answers to the question of how politics shapes development.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press
[2024]
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| Colección: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009844138306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- 1. Pathways to Development: Introduction
- Puzzles and an Argument
- The Rise of Politics in International Development
- 2. Reconceptualizing the Politics of Development: The Power Domains Approach
- From New Institutional Economics to the Politics of Elite Bargaining and State-Society Relations
- Rethinking Political Settlements Analysis: Incorporating a Sense of the Social and the Ideational
- Power Domains: Towards a New Conceptual Approach
- Methodological Approach and Country Cases
- 3. Political Economy Puzzles: How Do Countries Grow and How Can They Avoid the Natural-Resource Curse?
- How Do Countries Grow?
- How Can Countries Avoid the Natural-resource Curse?
- 4. Rights and Recognition Puzzles: When Do Elites Commit to Protecting Vulnerable Citizens?
- Social Assistance: When Do Elites Support Policy against Poverty and Vulnerability?
- Anti-domestic-violence Legislation: When Do Elites Support Policy Protecting Vulnerable Groups?
- 5. Social Provisioning Puzzles: How Can Countries Move from Providing Access to Providing High-Quality Social Services?
- From Schooling to Learning? The Politics of the Learning Crisis
- When Do Governments Commit to Improving the Quality of Health-service Provisioning? The Case of Maternal Mortality
- 6. The Politics of Governance and State Capacity
- What Explains the Wide Variation in the Success of Public-sector Reform across African Countries?
- The 'pockets of effectiveness' Phenomenon in Africa
- 7. Conclusions and Implications
- What Does This Mean for Rethinking the Politics of Development?
- Context, Coalitions, and Capacity: The Strategic Implications of Taking Politics Seriously
- Final Thoughts
- Appendices.
- Appendix I: Key Country Contexts
- Competitive Political Settlements
- Dominant Political Settlements
- Appendix II: Pockets of Effectiveness: Methodological Approach
- References
- Index.
