Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana, Barry Driscoll
Автор: Barry Driscoll Название: Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana ISBN: 0896803287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780896803282 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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How have the waves of democracy and decentralization that swept the developing world in recent decades affected states—among the most important drivers of poverty and prosperity—at national and local levels in Ghana and beyond?
State actors beneath the national level—what Barry Driscoll calls the local state—have considerable responsibility for carrying out state functions, but they are also forced to compete for these local state offices. How does a local state actually work in poor twentieth-century countries?
This book offers a descriptive account, as well as a causal explanation, of how political competition affects the local state in Ghana. Driscoll shows how closely fought elections drive local state institutions to provide patronage. The source of these demands for patronage comes not from rent-seeking bureaucrats or landed elites but from the government’s own party volunteers. Driscoll explains how electoral competition affects how local state actors are insulated from such patronage demands.
Moreover, these highly competitive, patronage-providing local governments actually have relatively better-qualified senior civil servants at their disposal. Driscoll makes sense of this paradox by introducing the logic of building administrative capacity in order to provide patronage. He then abstracts from the case of Ghana to generalize about how the effect of political competition is shaped by the locally salient variety of clientelism, which in turn is conditioned by the strength of the party system.
The book draws on fourteen months of fieldwork in six of Ghana’s districts, far from the nation’s capital city. Ethnographic and interview data come from time spent with market traders, tax collectors, politicians, and other figures in local state offices. Quantitative data come from a survey covering almost all local governments. The result is a detailed account of Ghana’s local state power dynamics that has relevant implications for states across the developing world.
Автор: Browne Stephen Название: Aid and Influence: Patronage, Power and Politics ISBN: 0367681552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367681555 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5205.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book turns the argument about aid effectiveness on its head. Since development assistance is inherently self-interested, a source of soft power, political manipulation and commercial opportunity, its real effectiveness could arguably be judged by the strength of donor influence and not by development impact.
Автор: Browne Stephen Название: Aid and Influence: Patronage, Power and Politics ISBN: 0367681528 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367681524 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 19906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book turns the argument about aid effectiveness on its head. Since development assistance is inherently self-interested, a source of soft power, political manipulation and commercial opportunity, its real effectiveness could arguably be judged by the strength of donor influence and not by development impact.
Описание: In the seventeenth century, previously peaceful relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth deteriorated into a series of military confrontations over the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Although scholars have generally interpreted this rivalry in terms of conflicting geopolitical interests, this state-centred approach ignores one of the most important developments of the period: the devolution of power away from rulers and formal institutions towards political factions. Drawing on Ottoman, Polish and Romanian sources, The Ottomans and Eastern Europe explores the complex interplay between regional politics and the rise of factionalism, focusing on cross-border patronage between Ottoman, Polish-Lithuanian and Moldavian elites. By approaching the history of the region from a factional, rather than state-centred perspective, this book investigates an alternative geography of power, defined by personal interactions that straddled religious, political and social boundaries between the elites. Wasiucionek reveals the way in which these interactions not only shaped the Ottoman-Polish rivalry over Moldavia, but also influenced political culture throughout the region.Published in Association with the British Institute at Ankara.
Автор: Kunibert Raffer; M.A. Mohamed Salih Название: The Least Developed and the Oil-Rich Arab Countries ISBN: 1349125601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349125609 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9362.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Notes on the Contributors - List of Abbreviations - Rich Arabs and Poor Arabs: An Introduction to Intra-Arab Issues; K.Raffer & M.A.Mohamed Salih - The Effects of Changes of Oil-Prices on Peripheral Net-Importers: A Crude Estimate with Special Reference to LDACs; K.Raffer - Some Aspects of the Gulf Cooperation Council's Relationship with LDACs; S.Koppers - Maghreb Conflicts, Socio-Economic Crisis and Unity; T.Melasuo - The Effects of the Lom Conventions on LDACs; V.Wulf - Agricultural Development in the Arab World: Achievements and Constraints; H.F.Jumah - Food Security in the Sudan: The Need for a Regional Approach; M.P.van Dijk - Survival Strategies and the State in Somalia; G.Braun - Somalia: The Gulf Link and Adjustment; V.Jamal - 'Structural Adjustment' or Debt Relief: The Case of Arab LLDCs; K.Raffer - Migration from Rural Sudan to the Oil-Rich Arab Countries; M.A.M.Alnagarabi - Impacts of Male Outmigration on Women: A Case Study of Kutum; E.Grawert - The Two Yemens: Ideology and Variations in Socio-Economic Development; M.A.M.Salih - Some Aspects of Islamic Banking in LDACs, Reflections on the Faisal Islamic Bank, Sudan; B.A.Ibrahim - A Comparison of the Health Sector in Kuwait and Somalia; A.Klaas & M.Galaty - Index
Автор: Park Название: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa ISBN: 1108025978 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108025973 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Mungo Park (1771-1806) was a Scottish surgeon and explorer. He made two expeditions to the interior of Africa in 1795-7 and 1805-6. This illustrated account of his first journey was an immediate best-seller in 1799, and includes descriptions of the geography, peoples and languages he encountered.
Автор: Ismailbekova Aksana Название: Blood Ties and the Native Son: Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan ISBN: 0253025397 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253025395 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in rural northern Kyrgyzstan, and of how his relations with clients and kin shaped the economic and social life of the region. Many observers of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia have assumed that corruption, nepotism, and patron-client relations would forestall democratization. Looking at the intersection of kinship ties with political patronage, Aksana Ismailbekova finds instead that this intertwining has in fact enabled democratization--both kinship and patronage develop apace with democracy, although patronage relations may stymie individual political opinion and action.
Автор: Aksana Ismailbekova Название: Blood Ties and the Native Son: Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan ISBN: 0253025281 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253025289 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10032.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in rural northern Kyrgyzstan, and of how his relations with clients and kin shaped the economic and social life of the region. Many observers of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia have assumed that corruption, nepotism, and patron-client relations would forestall democratization. Looking at the intersection of kinship ties with political patronage, Aksana Ismailbekova finds instead that this intertwining has in fact enabled democratization—both kinship and patronage develop apace with democracy, although patronage relations may stymie individual political opinion and action.
Описание: In Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India.
Описание: Probing the apartheid government's contentious resettlement policy, Capricious Patronage and Captive Land transcends a mere enquiry into the apartheid government's policy in shaping South Africa's human settlement - it provides a multifaceted scrutiny of forces that moulded this process. Zoning into the inner precincts of the Eastern Cape, Professor Wotshela demonstrates how its land became captive as apartheid design galvanised a spatial and demographic cataclysm in the traumatic displacement and relocation of African families. Resettlement was not exclusively swayed by actions of Afrikanerdom's influential National Party: contrived tribal authorities, serving at the base of the government pyramid, dispensed land and linked basic services to loyalists of homeland political parties. This process of territorial manipulation fostered new social and political patronage networks. But civil movements from marginalised and disgruntled groups ardently contested the homeland policy. Within a post-apartheid landscape, politics of remobilising communities expanded social boundaries of the Ciskei, the western parts of the Transkei and the adjacent white farming Border district. Capricious Patronage and Captive Land demonstrates in detail how these polygonal demands for land extended newer residential settlements as much as they tested the early forms of land reform in the early phases of South Africa's democracy.
Описание: A history of Oregon`s North Santiam Canyon, which traverses topics as varied as the interaction between Native and non-Native peoples throughout time, railroad development, land fraud in the nineteenth century, changing fortunes in the timber industry, and questions about economic and environmental sustainability into the twenty-first century.
Автор: Levy Peck, Linda Название: Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England ISBN: 0415093686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415093682 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6889.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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