Format:
1 online resource (347 pages)
ISBN:
9780821395394
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 goals. Starting with the empirical puzzle of why corruption, rent seeking, and a lack of good governance emerge and persist in a host of countries and sectors the book reviews how collective action problems and the role of institutions, as well as a host of ancillary political economy concepts can affect the feasibility of different projects. However, the book is not just a one stop shop of political economy concepts, but also provides practical advice on how to organize and use this information via the introduction of stakeholder mapping tools and the development of an actionable political economy toolkit.In other words researchers, graduate students, and policy practitioners interested in understanding, the what, the why and the how of policy reform will find this book an essential tool.
Content:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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 -- 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 -- Reform Stories: Seeing the World through the Lens of Political Economy -- Deconstructing and Understanding Poverty Reduction Reform: An Empirical Puzzle -- 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? -- Common Symptoms of Malfunctioning Institutions: Corruption and Its Relatives -- Summary -- 3. The Collective Action Problem in Development: The Why Question -- Objectives of Chapter 3 -- Collective Action Problems: At the Heart of Development -- What Are Public Goods? -- What Factors Inhibit Collective Action? -- Social Dilemmas of Delivering Public Goods -- Identifying and Evaluating Collective Action Problems -- Game Theory and Collective Action: Modeling Social Dilemmas with Nash Equilibria -- Summary -- Exercise 3.1: The Unscrupulous Diner's Dilemma -- 4. Theories and Mechanisms of Political Economy: Institutions and Equilibria -- Objectives of Chapter 4 -- Institutions, Incentives, and Collective Action -- Institutional Origins, Stability, and Change -- Symptoms of Institutional Failure: Lack of Enforcement -- Modeling the Role of Institutions with Game Theory -- Summary -- Exercise 4.1: The Prisoner's Dilemma Game -- 5. Collective Choice and Agenda Setting -- Objectives of Chapter 5.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821395387
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821395387
Language:
English
