NGOs, Politics and Grassroots Mobilisation

Devine, Joe

doi:10.1177/097317410500100104

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“…If place has any impact, it is at a very localised and familiar level. This is a relevant finding for our study as local communities in Bangladesh are often the primary source of informal support for individuals and also the primary point of access to higher level organisations or institutions (Devine 2006). As our data was collected from six different sites, in our analysis we introduce site dummies using Shantipur as the reference site to account for the 'place' effects on wellbeing.…”

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Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness

2017

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Research into the relation between religion and happiness offers inconclusive evidence. Religion seems to matter but it is not entirely clear how and why. Moreover much of the research to date is rooted in western experiences. This article analyzes primary data from Bangladesh to examine how religion figures in people's wellbeing and life chances. It identifies differences in reported happiness between the country's two largest religious populations: Muslims and Hindus. Our main argument is that the significance of religion is only really understood when considered alongside social, economic and political processes. The data and analysis make an important contribution to the limited knowledge we have of the relation between religion, political connectedness and happiness in non-western societies. It also highlights the need to incorporate more contextualizing analyses into our assessments of the relation between religion and happiness.

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Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness

2017

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“…NGOs offer Northern funders the means to engage with a wider spectrum of civil interest groups (Mercer, 2002) and they have succeeded in gaining access to policy makers and getting their ideas implemented through activism, campaigning and policy dialogue (Clarke, 1998). (Devine, 2006;Gray et al, 2006;Lehman, 2007). Nevertheless, NGOs are not universally acclaimed.…”

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Globalisation, accounting and developing countries

Hopper

Lassou

Soobaroyen

2017

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

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Accounting is an instrument and an object in globalisation but its impact and manifestation is not uniform across Northern developed countries and Southern developing countries (DCs). This paper reviews contributions on globalisation and its influence on accounting in DCs, and identifies important research gaps. It examines the role of accounting in changing development policies, from state capitalism through neo-liberal market-based to good-governance policies. It then considers specific accounting issues, namely the diffusion of International Accounting Standards (now International Financial Reporting Standards) and how they promote global neo-liberalism; the development of the accounting profession in DCs in the face of competition from Northern global accounting firms and professional associations; accounting issues in state-owned organisations, and privatised and multinational corporations; government accounting reforms and the resurrection of the state in DCs; social and environmental accounting issues; and the rise of non-governmental organisations and their accounting and accountability. The discussion and conclusions reflect on achievements to date and important areas requiring further development.

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“…The government had in theory allocated this land to local landless farmers, but it was frequently illegally occupied by local elites who undermined attempts to develop horizontal forms of collective resistance by providing workers with jobs on this land in return for political loyalty that strengthened patron-client relationships. During local elections held under military rule in 1985 Samata, which had 12,000 members at the time and was seen as a potential source of votes by political candidates, refused to endorse the ruling party candidate who had "won" the election and as a result was subjected to serious reprisals (Devine 2006).…”

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Organising and Representing the Poor in a Clientelistic Democracy: the Decline of Radical NGOs in Bangladesh

Lewis

2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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Abstract:-This paper examines the political role of radical development NGOs that emerged in Bangladesh to challenge the marginalization of subordinate groups and strengthen democratic processes. After briefly introducing the political context of Bangladesh and its NGOs, the paper identifies and defines a radical NGO sub-sector. It then reviews the activities of these organizations during the pre-1990 military government era and during the subsequent period of electoral democracy. Some important achievements are identified, but also many failures that have led to decline, leaving behind an NGO sector dominated by credit and service delivery organizations. The paper then explains this decline by focusing on three inter-related factors: (i) an institutional setting dominated by clientelistic structures that have undermined efforts to build horizontal alliances among excluded groups in civil society, or links between NGOs and political parties; (ii) a shift in donor support from mobilization to market-based service delivery agencies; and (iii) internal structures that have generated legitimacy and accountability problems by encouraging elite capture, co-option and personalised leadership in the radical sub-sector. It concludes with some brief reflections on the main implications of these failures.

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NGOs, Politics and Grassroots Mobilisation

Cited by 41 publications

References 25 publications

Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness

Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness

Globalisation, accounting and developing countries

Organising and Representing the Poor in a Clientelistic Democracy: the Decline of Radical NGOs in Bangladesh

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