Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information

Kruks-Wisner, Gabrielle

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“…The third shift, albeit not limited to fragile contexts, is the increasing attention within political science being paid to the role of governance intermediaries in connecting the poor to public services (Kirk, 2023; Kruks‐Wisner, 2022) and in conceptualising this more broadly than longstanding understandings of political brokers in electoral networks (e.g. Kitschelt & Wilkinson, 2007; Stokes et al., 2013).…”

Section: The Public Authority Lens and The Local Turnmentioning

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“…Kitschelt & Wilkinson, 2007; Stokes et al., 2013). A wider category of ‘social brokerage’ by intermediaries Kruks‐Wisner (2022: 2386) argues, is a ‘conceptually distinct set of activities, that unfold without the presumption of an exchange of electoral support for public resources’. Such social brokerage involves both mobilising citizens and framing their claims on the one hand, as well as motivating public officials to respond by ‘framing needs as urgent and legitimate’ (Kruks‐Wisner, 2022: 2386).…”

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Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan

Joshi,

Anderson,

Barnes

et al. 2024

Global Policy

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Drawing upon ‘governance diaries,’ a method which used repeated interviews with a set of households and intermediaries in three countries—Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan—to understand how marginalised groups meet their daily governance needs, we argue that local governance networks constitute a form of public authority. The networks we examine encompass a range of local actors (state and non‐state), who help develop and enforce rules and ensure social coordination. We highlight the role of intermediaries who constitute the first point of contact for people seeking to resolve various issues. We show how these intermediaries and their networks are specific to each context, not just at a national level, but down to a granular local level. Decision‐making and the exercise of power moves around within the networks, blurring formal/informal boundaries. We conclude that in these contexts of fragility, public authority is embedded in and exercised through local governance networks.

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Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan

Joshi,

Anderson,

Barnes

et al. 2024

Global Policy

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Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective

Gallagher,

Kruks-Wisner,

Taylor

2024

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Claim-making – the everyday strategies through which citizens pursue rights fulfilment – is often overlooked in studies of political behavior, which tend to focus on highly visible, pivotal moments: elections, mass protests, high court decisions, legislative decisions. But what of the politics of the everyday? This Element takes up this question, drawing together research from Colombia, South Africa, India, and Mexico. The authors argue that claim-making is a distinct form of citizenship practice characterized by its everyday nature, which is neither fully programmatic nor clientelistic; and which is prevalent in settings marked by gaps between the state's de jure commitments to rights and their de facto realization. Under these conditions, claim making is both meaningful (there are rights to be secured) and necessary (fulfillment is far from guaranteed). Claim-making of this kind is of critical consequence, both materially and politically, with the potential to shape how citizens engage (or disengage) the state.

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Resilience, Vulnerability, and Social Isolation: Barriers to Poverty Reduction in War

Lake,

Pierotti,

Alik-Lagrange

2023

International Studies Quarterly

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The majority of the world’s ultra-poor live in conflict-affected environments. Poverty reduction efforts are increasingly attempting to target the most vulnerable inhabitants of these settings. Few studies have so far examined their impacts. Against the backdrop of one of the largest humanitarian crises in recent years, survey data from the Central African Republic demonstrates that a year after the conclusion of a large social safety net program, the poorest female participants did not benefit proportionately to other women and men. We draw on 257 in-depth qualitative interviews in extremely difficult-to-access conflict-affected sites across the country to explore the puzzle of why the most vulnerable inhabitants of conflict-affected settings may fail to benefit equally from poverty reduction programs. We demonstrate that conditions of social isolation—rather than poverty itself—create two specific barriers to long-term benefits. First, social isolation means that the poorest women recipients lack the social support networks that permit others to respond to conflict-related shocks without draining all their new income on emergency spending. Second, small social networks create a shortage of labor and higher start-up costs for new revenue-generating activities, thereby preventing spending on investment opportunities. These factors highlight the social barriers to poverty reduction, which are often intensified by shocks born from war, that material aid alone fails to redress.

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Social Brokerage: Accountability and the Social Life of Information

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Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan

Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan

Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective

Resilience, Vulnerability, and Social Isolation: Barriers to Poverty Reduction in War

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