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Changing paths : international development and the new politics of inclusion / edited by Peter P. Houtzager and Mick Moore.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: x, 300 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0472030973
  • 9780472030972
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.6 21
LOC classification:
  • HD87 .C418 2003
Contents:
1. Introduction: From Polycentrism to the Polity / Peter P. Houtzager -- 2. Political Capabilities over the Long Run / Laurence Whitehead and George Gray-Molina -- 3. Beyond the Political Impossibility Theorem of Agrarian Reform / Ronald J. Herring -- 4. Coalition Building from Below / Peter P. Houtzager and Jonathan Pattenden -- 5. Grounds for Alliance?: Overlapping Interests of Poor and not so Poor / Joan M. Nelson -- 6. The Boundaries of Antipoverty Policy: Economic Ideas, Political Coalitions, and the Structure of Social Provision in Chile and Mexico / Marcus J. Kurtz -- 7. Polity Qualities: How Governance Affects Poverty / Mick Moore, Jennifer Leavy and Howard White -- 8. Do Political Regimes Matter?: Poverty Reduction and Regime Differences Across India / John Harriss -- 9. Does Decentralization Contribute to Poverty Reduction?: Surveying the Evidence / Richard C. Crook and Alan S. Sverrisson -- 10. Arguing the Politics of Inclusion / Mick Moore.
Summary: "After two decades of marketizing, an array of national and international actors have become concerned with growing global inequality, the failure to reduce the numbers of very poor people in the world, and a perceived global backlash against international economic institutions. This new concern with poverty reduction and the political participation of excluded groups has set the stage for a new politics of inclusion within nations and in the international arena. The essays in this volume explore what forms the new politics of inclusion can take in low- and middle-income countries by using a polity-centered approach that focuses on the political capacities of societal and state actors to negotiate large-scale collective solutions and that highlights a variety of possible strategies to lift large numbers of people out of poverty and political subordination. The contributors suggest there is little basis for the radical polycentrism that colors so much contemporary development thought. They focus on how the political capabilities of different societal and state actors develop over time and how their development is influenced by state action and a variety of institutional and other factors. The final chapter draws insightful conclusions about the political limitations and opportunities presented by current international discourse on poverty. Peter P. Houtzager is Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. Mick Moore is Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: From Polycentrism to the Polity / Peter P. Houtzager -- 2. Political Capabilities over the Long Run / Laurence Whitehead and George Gray-Molina -- 3. Beyond the Political Impossibility Theorem of Agrarian Reform / Ronald J. Herring -- 4. Coalition Building from Below / Peter P. Houtzager and Jonathan Pattenden -- 5. Grounds for Alliance?: Overlapping Interests of Poor and not so Poor / Joan M. Nelson -- 6. The Boundaries of Antipoverty Policy: Economic Ideas, Political Coalitions, and the Structure of Social Provision in Chile and Mexico / Marcus J. Kurtz -- 7. Polity Qualities: How Governance Affects Poverty / Mick Moore, Jennifer Leavy and Howard White -- 8. Do Political Regimes Matter?: Poverty Reduction and Regime Differences Across India / John Harriss -- 9. Does Decentralization Contribute to Poverty Reduction?: Surveying the Evidence / Richard C. Crook and Alan S. Sverrisson -- 10. Arguing the Politics of Inclusion / Mick Moore.

"After two decades of marketizing, an array of national and international actors have become concerned with growing global inequality, the failure to reduce the numbers of very poor people in the world, and a perceived global backlash against international economic institutions. This new concern with poverty reduction and the political participation of excluded groups has set the stage for a new politics of inclusion within nations and in the international arena. The essays in this volume explore what forms the new politics of inclusion can take in low- and middle-income countries by using a polity-centered approach that focuses on the political capacities of societal and state actors to negotiate large-scale collective solutions and that highlights a variety of possible strategies to lift large numbers of people out of poverty and political subordination. The contributors suggest there is little basis for the radical polycentrism that colors so much contemporary development thought. They focus on how the political capabilities of different societal and state actors develop over time and how their development is influenced by state action and a variety of institutional and other factors. The final chapter draws insightful conclusions about the political limitations and opportunities presented by current international discourse on poverty. Peter P. Houtzager is Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. Mick Moore is Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex."--Publisher description.

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