Developmental States, Effective States, and Poverty Reduction: The Primacy of Politics

Leftwich, Adrian

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“…High levels of state capacity have been a central feature in all successful cases of long-run development witnessed in the post-World War II era, whether in terms of growth (e.g. Evans, 1995;Leftwich, 1995;Vu, 2007;World Bank, 2008), social provisioning (Leftwich, 2008;Walton, 2010) or broader forms of democratic development involving rights and redistribution (Sandbrook et al, 2007). However, and given that states can be highly capable without necessarily being committed to development, the commitment of political elites to delivering development has also proved critical (Booth, 2011;Hossain and Moore, 2001;Leftwich, 1995;Vu, 2007).…”

Section: Introduction 'What Kinds Of Politics Can Help To Secure Inclmentioning

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Thinking About the Politics of Inclusive Development: Towards a Relational Approach

Hickey

2013

SSRN Journal

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Moving beyond the mantra that 'politics matters', a range of conceptual approaches have recently emerged within international development thinking that seek to capture the specific ways in which politics shapes development. This paper critically assesses whether these approaches, including work on 'limited access orders' and 'political settlements', can underpin research into how developmental forms of state capacity and elite commitment emerge and can be sustained. It suggests that these new approaches offer powerful insights into certain elements of this puzzle, particularly through a focus on the relational basis of elite behaviour and institutional performance. However, these approaches are also subject to serious limitations, and insights from broader and (in particular) more critical forms of political theory are also required in order to investigate how the politics of development is shaped by ideas as well as incentives, popular as well as elite forms of agency, transnational as well as national factors, and in dynamic as well as more structural ways. The paper proposes an initial conceptual framework that can be operationalized and tested within a programme of primary research to be established by the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre.

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Section: Introduction 'What Kinds Of Politics Can Help To Secure Inclmentioning

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Thinking About the Politics of Inclusive Development: Towards a Relational Approach

Hickey

2013

SSRN Journal

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“…This means (re)politicising analysis of participation and exploring in what contexts and under what conditions of conflict, cooperation and negotiation (Leftwich, 2008) can different forms of participation contribute to both local level improvements in policy outcomes and higher level changes in governance.…”

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Understanding participation in development: towards a framework

Holland¹,

Jones²,

Kardan³

2015

International Development Planning Review

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“…However, since the 1990s we have witnessed in Botswana a challenge to the dominance of the state, ironically initiated by the Botswana state itself. Neoliberal orthodoxies today dominate policy in all major international institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organisation (WTO) (Leftwich 2008), all being institutions that call for a less interventionist state. These organisations, the first two in particular, have since the 1990s been very active in Botswana, offering policy advice and we are seeing a conscious and deliberate integration of neo-liberal thinking into national and social development planning.…”

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The state, markets and higher education reform in Botswana

Tabulawa

Polelo

Silas

2013

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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Market forces are being introduced in public spheres such as higher education and public health, which hitherto were closed to such forces. Ironically, it is the state that is responsible for this process of marketisation. Some see this state action as leading to a growing influence of the state in public policy while others see an attenuation of its role. Critiquing this marketÁstate incompatibility thesis from a geo-spatial perspective on globalisation, this paper calls for an articulation of stateÁmarket relations that emphasises their interpenetration. Using Botswana as a case study, the paper argues that although on-going tertiary education reforms in the country are characterised by the state's promotion of market forces this does not mean that the state is retreating, leaving the sub-sector to the vagaries of the market. Contrarily, the state is employing marketisation to reform the sub-sector so that it is responsive to labour and skills demands of an economy aspiring to be knowledge-based.

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Developmental States, Effective States, and Poverty Reduction: The Primacy of Politics

Cited by 48 publications

References 26 publications

Thinking About the Politics of Inclusive Development: Towards a Relational Approach

Thinking About the Politics of Inclusive Development: Towards a Relational Approach

Understanding participation in development: towards a framework

The state, markets and higher education reform in Botswana

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