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  • Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa

    Edited by Sam Hickey ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-BC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Why do certain parts of the state in Africa work so effectively despite operating in difficult governance contexts? How do 'pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness' emerge and ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Political Settlements and Development

    Theory, Evidence, Implications

    by Tim Kelsall, Nicolai Schulz, William D. Ferguson, Matthias vom Hau, Sam Hickey, Brian Levy ...
    Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development community in recent years as powerfully as the idea of a 'political settlement'. At its most ambitious, 'political settlements analysis' (PSA) promises to explain why conflicts occur and states collapse, the conditions for their successful rehabilitation, different developmental pathways from peace, and how to better fit ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

    Edited by Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Jeremy Seekings, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice. Promoted as an integral dimension of the post-Washington Consensus all major international development agencies and bilateral donors now include a strong focus on social protection in their advocacy and programmatic ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Government of Chronic Poverty

    From the politics of exclusion to the politics of citizenship?

    Edited by Sam Hickey ...
    What are the underlying causes of chronic poverty? Can ‘development beyond neoliberalism’ offer the strategies required to challenge such persistent forms of poverty, particularly through efforts to promote citizenship amongst poor people? Drawing on case-study evidence from Africa, Latin America and South Asia, the contributions critically examine different attempts to ‘govern’ chronic poverty ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Politics of Education in Developing Countries

    From Schooling to Learning

    Edited by Sam Hickey, Naomi Hossain ...
    Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also that educational outcomes in developing countries are shaped by political as well as socio-economic and other factors. The Politics ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South

    The Politics of Domestic Violence Policy

    Edited by Sohela Nazneen, Sam Hickey, Eleni Sifaki ...
    Series series Routledge ISS Gender, Sexuality and Development Studies
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351245623, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.The fact that women have achieved higher levels of political inclusion within low- and middle-income countries has generated much speculation about whether this is reaping broader benefits in tackling gender ... Read more

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    Edited by Pragna Rugunanan, Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access Regional Reader proposes new ways of theorizing migration in Southern Africa by arguing that traditional western forms of theorizing do not adequately fit the South-South migration context. It explores the existing definitions of a ‘migrant’ with a view to conceptualise a definition which will speak to the complexities, envisioning a more inclusive Southern African region. The ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and Foreign Aid

    For Love or Money?

    by Bethany Barratt ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights
    By trying to alleviate poverty abroad, foreign development assistance tries to meet, among other things, basic human needs, which some schools of thought classify as basic human rights. However, because development abroad has often been treated as a tool for the pursuit of donor interests, rather than as an end to itself, it often ends up not only neglecting basic human rights, but making them ... Read more

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  • Beyond Gridlock

    by Thomas Hale, David Held ...
    It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in ... Read more

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    Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

    by Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
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  • Public Policy and Research in Africa

    Edited by E. Remi Aiyede, Beatrice Muganda ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book responds to the need for a specifically African focus on public policy. It outlines the fundamental principles of public policy research, and engages with major issues in the study of public policy from an African perspective, covering essential topics such as the location and centrality of social sciences in relation to public policy, leadership, methodology, institutions, ... Read more

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    Making Participation and Accountability Count

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