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Who wrote the unpublished paper 'Understanding Variations in Political Systems in Developing Countries: A Practical Framework'?
What is the title of the paper written by Nash, Hudson, and Luttrell in 2006?
Who edited the book 'The African State and the AIDS Crisis'?
What is the title of the 1997 report by the UNDP?
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Who wrote the chapter 'How Reform Worked in China' in the book 'In Search of Prosperity'?
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What is the title of the paper by Dominique Moran?
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Who wrote the paper 'The Donors and the State in Africa: How Much Has Changed?'?
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What is the title of the 2005 paper by USAID?
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What is the title of the 2000 World Bank strategy?
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What is the title of the 1997 World Bank report?
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Study Notes
State Characteristics
- Weak states are characterized by low structural/institutional stability, low organizational capacity, and strongly questioned legitimacy
- Stronger states demonstrate higher levels of structural/institutional stability, organizational capacity, and legitimacy
Assessing State Strength
- Practitioners should assess the strength and coherence of the state in a particular country to successfully introduce and carry out governance interventions
- Mick Moore's typology of political systems characterizes different kinds of states, their institutional, organizational, and legitimacy characteristics, and the kinds of policies they are likely to have in place
Reform Process
- The reform process includes how issues come to be part of public agendas, how they are designed, what factors affect how they are negotiated, agreed to, or rejected, and what conditions influence whether they can be implemented and sustained over time
- Each phase of the reform process is an arena in which characteristics of the context and of the content of the initiative come into play
Good Governance
- The current good governance agenda is additive rather than analytic
- Development practitioners confront long lists of 'things that must be done' to achieve good governance, with little guidance about how to pick and choose among them as priorities
- Adopting the concept of good enough governance can help to target fewer, more useful, and more feasible interventions
Governance Interventions
- In collapsed states, governance interventions may have no effect, and humanitarian assistance or strengthening non-governmental forms of governance may be better choices for scarce resources
- Practitioners should understand the content of the changes they propose, assess the requirements of those reforms, and then, if possible, alter their content to be more feasible or appropriate to the context
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Test your knowledge of Grindle's concepts on political systems, including the role of media, bureaucratic interests, and capacity of public sector.
