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Format: pages cm.

ISBN: 1-283-94162-7 , 0-8213-9539-4

Series Statement: World Bank e-Library.

Content: How does the social and political context in which decision-makers find themselves in affect their ability to realize their reform goals? How does this context facilitate or inhibit specific reform agendas and projects? How can we operationalize and evaluate these risks and opportunities in order to decide what reforms and projects are feasible given the circumstances? This book provides the reader with the full panoply of political economy tools and concepts necessary to understand, analyze, and integrate how political and social factors may influence the success or failure of their policy...

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; What Is This Handbook About?; A Guide for Reformers, Journalists, and Civil Society Activists; The Main Theoretical Narrative and the Guiding Principle of the Handbook; Collective Action: The How To Change Solution; Figures; O.1 Institutional Constraints That Affect Collective Action; The Rest of This Book; Summary; 1. Political Economy: What It Is and What It Is Not; Objectives of Chapter 1; Political Economy Analysis, Diagnostics, and Tools; 1.1 Political Economy: The Intersection of Politics and Economics , Reform Stories: Seeing the World through the Lens of Political Economy Deconstructing and Understanding Poverty Reduction Reform: An Empirical Puzzle; 1.2 Implementation Gaps-Spending versus Outcomes in Selected Countries, 1980's and 1990's; The Limits, Perils, and Promises of Political-Economy Analysis; Summary; PART I; 2. Accountability and Corruption: The What Question; Objectives of Chapter 2; What Is Accountability?; 2.1 Conceptual Map of Accountability, Corruption, and Related Governance Problems; Concepts in Practice; 2.1 Democratic Institutions, Famines, and Food Shortages , 2.2 The Path between Citizen Preferences and Policy Outcomes Tables; 2.1 Modes of Accountability and Time Horizon for Performance Evaluation; 2.3 Varieties of Accountability; Common Symptoms of Malfunctioning Institutions: Corruption and Its Relatives; 2.2 The Case of Budgetary Decisions in Iran; 2.3 Prebendalism and Artisanal Gold Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo; 2.4 Clientelism, Ethnicity, and Gender in Benin; 2.4 The Link between per Capita Income and Corruption; Summary; 2.5 The "New Public Management"-from New Zealand to the World , 3. The Collective Action Problem in Development: The Why Question 3.1 Conceptual Map of Collective Action Problems; Objectives of Chapter 3; Collective Action Problems: At the Heart of Development; What Are Public Goods?; 3.2 Impact of Individual and Collective Incentives on a Public Good; 3.1 Goods Quadrant-Public Goods versus Club (Toll) Goods, Common-Pool Resources, and Private Goods; What Factors Inhibit Collective Action?; Social Dilemmas of Delivering Public Goods; Identifying and Evaluating Collective Action Problems; 3.1 Prices of Agricultural Products in Sub-Saharan Africa , Game Theory and Collective Action: Modeling Social Dilemmas with Nash Equilibria 3.2 Political Parties as Collective Action Problem Solvers; Summary; Exercise 3.1: The Unscrupulous Diner's Dilemma; 4. Theories and Mechanisms of Political Economy: Institutions and Equilibria; 4.1 Conceptual Map: Understanding Institutions and Their Influence in Development; Objectives of Chapter 4; Institutions, Incentives, and Collective Action; 4.2 Influence of Collective Action on Institutional Change; 4.1 Constitutions and Individual Rights to Public Goods-Water Access and Health Care , 4.2 Water Resource Management Reforms in Zimbabwe , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8213-9538-6

Language: English