Review Article: Good Governance, Institutions and Economic Development: Beyond the Conventional Wisdom

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Dellepiane-Avellaneda
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Human Learning ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The Political ◽  
Credible Commitment ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Political Foundations

This article reviews comparative research on institutions and economic performance, identifying analytical gaps in the political economy of growth literature. It also examines core assumptions underpinning the good-governance approach to development. Contrasting experiences of conceptual and policy issues in East Asia and Latin America are discussed. The author suggests future scholarship in this field should distinguish between the rules and the play of the game; move beyond the property rights approach to development; stress the distributional, endogenous nature of institutions; investigate the role of informal constraints and human learning; and consider sources of credible commitment and self-enforcing growth. Focusing on some uncertainties in the accepted wisdom on good governance and development, this article furthers the consolidation of research on the political foundations of prosperity.

“There is such a situation that Comrade Svoboda is under pressure”. The Soviet leadership and the settlement of relations with Czechoslovakia. May 1969

2019 ◽  
pp. 512-519
Author(s):  
Teymur Dzhalilov ◽  
Nikita Pivovarov
Keyword(s):  
Central Committee ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Soviet Leadership ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

The published document is a part of the working record of The Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee on May 5, 1969. The employees of The Common Department of the CPSU Central Committee started writing such working records from the end of 1965. In contrast to the protocols, the working notes include speeches of the secretaries of the Central Committee, that allow to deeper analyze the reactions of the top party leadership, to understand their position regarding the political agenda. The peculiarity of the published document is that the Secretariat of the Central Committee did not deal with the most important foreign policy issues. It was the responsibility of the Politburo. However, it was at a meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee when Brezhnev raised the question of inviting G. Husák to Moscow. The latter replaced A. Dubček as the first Secretary of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia in April 1969. As follows from the document, Leonid Brezhnev tried to solve this issue at a meeting of the Politburo, but failed. However, even at the Secretariat of the Central Committee the Leonid Brezhnev’s initiative at the invitation of G. Husák was not supported. The published document reveals to us not only new facets in the mechanisms of decision-making in the CPSU Central Committee, the role of the Secretary General in this process, but also reflects the acute discussions within the Soviet government about the future of the world socialist systems.

The (Mixed) Times of Revolution

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Rodríguez Matos
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Jose Lezama Lima ◽  
Difficult Question ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Political Foundations ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the role of Christianity in the work of José Lezama Lima as it relates to his engagement with Revolutionary politics. The chapter shows the multiple temporalities that the State wields, and contrasts this thinking on temporality with the Christian apocalyptic vision held by Lezama. The chapter is concerned with highlighting the manner in which Lezama unworks Christianity from within. Yet its aim is not to prove yet again that there is a Christian matrix at the heart of modern revolutionary politics. Rather, it shows the way in which the mixed temporalities of the Revolution, already a deconstruction of the idea of the One, still poses a challenge for contemporary radical thought: how to think through the idea that political change is possible precisely because no politics is absolutely grounded. That Lezama illuminates the difficult question of the lack of political foundations from within the Christian matrix indicates that the problem at hand cannot be reduced to an ever more elusive and radical purge of the theological from the political.

Néstor Kirchner, Santa Cruz, and the Hielos Continentales Controversy 1991–1999

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURENCE ALLAN
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Potential Utility ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Political Controversy

AbstractThis article traces the development of the political controversy in Argentina over the resolution of border issues between Argentina and Chile during the 1990s, examining provincial opposition to the Menem government's proposals for the Hielos Continentales zone in the far southern Andes. It argues that territorial perceptions held by Argentine opponents of the proposals, whilst highly significant, are insufficient to explain domestic opposition to the territorial accords. Instead it suggests that the sensitivity and longevity of the controversy reflected both specific territorial perceptions and anti-Menem dynamics in Argentina. Whilst the article highlights citizen opposition to government policy, it also points to the key role of Néstor Kirchner, at the time governor of the province of Santa Cruz, and subsequently Argentina's president. Kirchner's role in the decade-long controversy highlights two key factors. First, the potential utility of foreign policy issues, and particularly those centred on territory, as a resource in the domestic political environment, and, second, the fact that Kirchner's opposition itself responded at least in part to disputes within Peronism during the 1990s.

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Assessments

The afterword to this volume argues that seeking a triumph of anticorruption smacks of rosy self-assessments that situate us at the end of history. It continues to explain that there are at least two other major fallacies in the ways we commonly understand corruption problems. One is to assume that the standards against which we judge political actors are more or less permanent aspects of the political landscape. The second fallacy is to assume that thanks to modern conceptions of “good governance” and the role of the “neutral” state and technological innovations we have now got anticorruption figured out. The afterword concludes by emphasizing that we would be well-served if we were to look to the past, as well as to other parts of the world, with the more modest goal of learning how to ask, and seek answers for, better questions.

The Reality of International Law

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Falk
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
Political Foundations ◽  
United Nations Charter ◽  
European Regional

Machiavelli begins his Discourses by observing that “the curious nature of men, so prompt to blame and so slow to praise, makes the discovery and introduction of any new principles and systems as dangerous almost as the exploration of unknown seas and continents.” The Political Foundations of International Law runs this hazard, as it is both a splendid pioneering venture and vulnerable to all sorts of criticism. Although it most suggestively studies the theoretical interaction of law and politics, it provides scant doctrinal support. Although it brilliantly applies systems analysis and prudently uses decision-making theory, structural functional approaches, institutional studies, and a subtle form of historicism, it flirts outrageously with the relevance of game theory to the role of law in international affairs. Although it advances its views of international jurisdiction with unprecedented sophistication, it resorts to amateurish simplification when it discusses the United Nations Charter or the major European regional organizations. In sum, Political Foundations is at once profoundly provocative and frustratingly unrealized. However, its achievements are so much greater than its defects that it warrants high praise and mild rebuke.

scholarly journals Peace and War With Endogenous State Capacity

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McBride ◽  
Gary Milante ◽  
Stergios Skaperdas
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Collective Good ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
External Actors ◽  
Peace And War ◽  
Commitment Problems

We explore how peace or war can occur in the presence of commitment problems. These problems can be reduced by institutions of good governance or, alternatively, state capacity which (a) can be considered a collective good and (b) can be improved through investments. We show how the likelihood of a peace agreement depends on the level of state capacity and on investments in state capacity made by adversaries. In accordance with existing evidence but contrary to various theories of conflict, we find that income levels unambiguously increase the chance of peace. Among other issues, we discuss the critical role of external actors in encouraging or discouraging commitment and in developing good governance institutions.

Adam Smith's Advisory Style as Illustrated by his Trade Policy Prescriptions

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Endres
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Political Economist ◽  
Wealth Of Nations ◽  
Extensive Reference ◽  
Policy Discussion

The purpose of this paper is to recover Adam Smith's conception of the appropriate rules of argumentation for the political economist in public policy discussion. Our interest will be in Smith's attempt to model the advisory style which he thought appropriate for an economist writing on public policy issues, advising the legislature and debating constitutional problems. Inferences will be drawn from the scope and tone of Smith's work on some selected issues of economic policy reform discussed in The Wealth of Nations (hereafter WN). Extensive reference will be made to Smith's admission of the vital role of rhetoric in human affairs in his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, and to Smith's view of the legislator's perspective on policy as enunciated in the Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Cyclones in cyberspace: Information shaping and denial in the 2008 Russia–Georgia war

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Deibert ◽  
Rafal Rohozinski ◽  
Masashi Crete-Nishihata
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cyber Warfare ◽  
Strategic Communications ◽  
South Ossetia ◽  
Information Operations ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Cyber War ◽  
The Impact

While the rhetoric of cyber war is often exaggerated, there have been recent cases of international conflict in which cyberspace has played a prominent role. In this article, we analyze the impact of cyberspace in the conflict between Russia and Georgia over the disputed territory of South Ossetia in August 2008. We examine the role of strategic communications, information operations, operations in and through cyberspace, and conventional combat to account for the political and military outcomes of the conflict. The August 2008 conflict reveals some emergent issues in cyber warfare that can be generalized for further comparative research: the importance of control over the physical infrastructure of cyberspace, the strategic and tactical importance of information denial, the emergence of cyber-privateering, the unavoidable internationalization of cyber conflicts, and the tendency towards magnifying unanticipated outcomes in cyber conflicts – a phenomenon we call ‘cyclones in cyberspace’.

scholarly journals Creating a Bureaucratic Culture to Promote Good Governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Rohim Yunus ◽  
Annissa Rezki ◽  
Taryono Taryono
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Order ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Work Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Good Government ◽  
Control Work

Bureaucracy is a modern organization that by default enforces the division of labor in its work process. The realization of good governance in Indonesia cannot be separated from the success or failure of the performance of the bureaucracy. The concept of governance simply refers to the decision-making process and its implementation. The realization of good governance or the effectiveness of local government can be seen from its ability to realize programs related to public services. During the new order, the bureaucracy had a big hand in the development process. In the public sector, the concept of bureaucracy is defined as processes and systems that are created rationally to ensure regular, definite and easy-to-control work mechanisms and systems. The role of the bureaucracy in providing services to the community is still not in accordance with the expectations and desires of the community. Bureaucracy develops in line with the political and economic development of a society. In this paper, the author uses a descriptive qualitative methodology.Keywords: Bureaucratic Culture; Good Government; Public AbstrakBirokrasi merupakan organisasi modern yang secara baku memberlakukan pembagian kerja dalam proses kerjanya. Terwujudnya good governance di Indonesia tidak dapat dilepaskan dari berhasil tidaknya kinerja birokrasi. Konsep governance secara sederhana merujuk pada proses pembuatan keputusan dan dan implementasinya. Realisasi good governance atau efektivitas pemerintah daerah dapat dilihat dari kemampuannya dalam mewujudkan program-program yang berkaitan dengan pelayanan publik. Selama orde baru, birokrasi memiliki andil besar dalam proses pembangunan. Dalam bidang publik konsep birokrasi di maknai sebagai proses dan sistem yang diciptakan secara rasional untuk menjamin mekanisme dan sistem kerja yang teratur, pasti dan mudah di kendalikan. Peran birokrasi memberikan pelayanan kepada masyarakat masih belum sesuai dengan harapan dan keinginan masyarakat. Birokrasi berkembang sejalan dengan perkembangan politik maupun ekonomi suatu masyarakat. Dalam penulisan ini, penulis menggunakan metodologi kualitatif deskriptif.Kata Kunci: Budaya Birokrasi; Good Government; Publik 

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