Less Pretension, More Ambition : Development Policy in Times of Globalization

Lieshout, Peter van; Went, Robert; Kremer, Monique

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“…Finally, although the NAPA guidelines might blur our results, they may also be the very example of the development aid ways of dealing with recipient administration. The guidelines' ignorance of country‐specific administrative context might add to our conclusion that a context‐free or a blueprint approach prevails in foreign‐funded adaptation in Africa (see e.g., Lieshout et al, ; Rodrik, ).…”

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“…In terms of the implications of our results for climate adaptation policy, we follow development scholars like Rodrik (), Andrews (), and Lieshout and others () who signal the adverse or even devastating policy effects of the blueprint traditions in development aid approaches and donor administration. In line with these findings, we suggest that foreign‐funded adaptation runs the risk of adding to traditions of administrative blueprinting rather than encouraging adaptation that fits country‐specific traditions in administration.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Priorities are often set by (political) debate in the donor country or through routinized interaction patterns between administration and civil society (e.g., Western NGOs). The aligning of interventions with foreign administrative traditions has hindered the linking of interventions to recipient administrative operations and prioritization, jeopardizing the systemic effects of development aid (Ebrahim, ; Lieshout et al, ). We label the second way in which development aid approaches deal with administration as blueprinting administrative tradition. Many international development aid agendas have based their operations on causal theories on preferable types of governance in which public administration should play a specific role.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many international development aid agendas have based their operations on causal theories on preferable types of governance in which public administration should play a specific role. Donors made these administration models a precondition for funding (Lieshout et al, ; Rodrik, ). A pivotal ideology in this context has been the Washington Consensus, a doctrine adopted by most Breton Woods institutes during the 1980s and 1990s for allocating financial support, mainly to African and Latin American states.…”

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Foreign‐Funded Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Mirroring Administrative Traditions or Traditions of Administrative Blueprinting?

Vink

Schouten

2018

Review of Policy Research

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Climate change impacts are most severe in developing countries with limited adaptive capacity. Accordingly, in Africa, climate change adaptation has become an issue of international funding and practice. As suggested in the Introduction to this special issue, administrative traditions could play a role in how adaptation plays out. This, however, raises questions about how foreign funding regimes coincide with recipients' administrative traditions, especially on the African continent where administrative traditions are often meagerly established. To address these questions, this article takes an explorative approach. From a literature review of African state governance and development aid approaches, we take colonial legacy as the most distinctive factor responsible for African administrative traditions. In addition, we define three ways in which foreign aid programs have dealt with African administration: (1) aligning with donor administration, (2) blueprinting administration, and (3) ignoring administration. Using 34 African countries' National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs), we analyze how African governments actually frame adaptation as a governance challenge. We contrast these frames with: (1) administrative traditions based on colonial legacy and (2) the ways in which development aid programs have historically dealt with recipient African administrations. Our findings indicate that NAPAs only meagerly refer to the administrative tradition that could be expected based on colonial legacy, but extensively refer to blueprint ideas common among international donors, or ignore administration altogether. We discuss the implications for adaptation to climate change.

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2018

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“…That says nothing, however, about how that resource must be provided. The means and methods for the provision of a global public good may differ from one case to the next and can be undertaken by private or public parties, or combinations of the two (Lieshout, Went and Kremer 2010). The same can be said to apply to the Internet as a network and infrastructure.…”

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The Public Core of the Internet: An international Agenda for Internet Governance

Broeders¹

2016

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It advised the Dutch government to make cyberspace and Internet governance a serious priority for its foreign policy. The successful organisation of the Global Conference on Cyber Space in April 2015 (gccs2015) in The Hague provided the Dutch government with an excellent stepping stone to promote its goals of a safe and open Internet through the global arena of cyber diplomacy. Dutch cyber diplomacy will be intensified in the wake of this conference, building -amongst others-on the insights and recommendations put forward in this report.The core messages in the original report and in this book are not limited to the Netherlands however, but have a global appeal. Its main argument is that the Internet's infrastructure and core protocols should be regarded as a global public good that is in need of protection against unwarranted interventions by states and other parties. Its main policy recommendation is that states should work towards establishing an international standard that identifies the Internet's core protocols as a neutral zone in which governments, pursuing their national interests, are prohibited from interfering. This is a goal that is of crucial importance for all states whose societies and economies depend on the integrity and functionality of the Internet. Increasingly, that is the vast majority of states.The original report was drawn up by a project team headed by Dennis Broeders, senior research fellow at the Council and professor of Technology and Society at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The other members of the group were Erik Schrijvers and Lisa Vermeer, both research fellows at the Council. Member of the Council Mark Bovens was also involved in the project.While writing this report, the project group consulted numerous experts in the fields of Internet governance and cybersecurity. Their comments were extremely valuable and the Council would like to thank the interviewees for their time and effort. The Council would also like to thank Jan van den Berg, Nico van Eijk, Marieke de Goede, Erik Huizer and Corien Prins, who commented on earlier versions of the Dutch report. Prof. André Knottnerus Chairman Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy summaryThe Internet's core of key protocols and infrastructure can be considered a global public good that provides benefits to everyone in the world. Countering the growing state interference with this public core requires a new international agenda for Internet governance that departs from the notion of a global public good.internet governance between the technical and the political Everyday life without the Internet has become unimaginable. It is inextricably interwoven with our social lives, our purchasing behaviour, our work, our relationship with the government and, increasingly, with our everyday objects, from smart meters to the cars we drive and the moveable bridges we cross en route. For a long time, Internet governance was the exclusive domain of what is known in Internet circles as the 'technical community'. That community laid the fo...

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Less Pretension, More Ambition : Development Policy in Times of Globalization

Cited by 33 publications

References 130 publications

Foreign‐Funded Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Mirroring Administrative Traditions or Traditions of Administrative Blueprinting?

Foreign‐Funded Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Mirroring Administrative Traditions or Traditions of Administrative Blueprinting?

The Public Core of the Internet: An international Agenda for Internet Governance

The Netherlands: Merchant and Clergyman

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