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Under what conditions do governments become committed to and capable of delivering development? How can these processes be conceptualized and researched? And what (if anything) can be done to ‘get the politics right’ for development? This book draws on a major comparative research effort to present new answers to the question of how politics shapes development. It develops and applies a ‘power domains’ framework across multiple countries in the global south to uncover the political drivers of development across a wide range of policy areas, including economic growth, gender equity, health, and education. We find that a country’s pathway to development is shaped less by institutional type than by the nature of the politics and power relations that underpin these institutions and that shape how they actually function in practice within different policy domains. Our comparative analysis reveals two alternative pathways to developmental outcomes, each of which is defined by different configurations of power. The first involves a dominant ruling coalition with a strong developmental vision that faces an existential threat from social forces; the second involves competitive settlements within which the short-term vision of ruling elites and the politicization of the public bureaucracy are offset by the presence of strong and coherent coalitions within particular policy domains. We use these insights to generate innovative, practical suggestions for policy actors seeking to promote inclusive development that are aligned to critical differences in political context, the importance of state capacity, and the critical role played by reform coalitions.
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Keywords
- Africa
- Development
- economic growth
- Gender Equity
- governance
- Human development
- political settlements
- Politics
- Power domains
- South Asia
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophy
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DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198872566.001.0001Editions