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POLITICS OFDEVELOPMENT
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ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK
1. Read (on BB required reading)
- Fukuyama, What is Governance
- Governance is governance as a governments ability to
make and enforce rules, and to deliver services, regardless of
whether that government is democratic or not. Governance
is about the performance of agents in carrying out thewishes of principals, and not about the goals that principals
set.
- Governance analytics, the next steps
2. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w06x8Q_hdMU
- And write down your aha- moments October 14,2014
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Starting with concepts
For back-up: see BB Required reading
-Leftwich A (2010) Beyond Institutions
-Institutions and Development: A Critical Review
-Fukuyama, What is Governance
-Governance is
-Governance analytics
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THE WOOLLY CONCEPTS
DEVELOPMENTDEMOCRACY - GOVERNANCE
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What is development?
Narrow definitions
Economic growth (income, GDP, economics indicators):
simple, can measure it everywhere and compare countries
to each other. But lots of criticisim because it is not about
only income, and growth; e.g. Poverty reduction (lots of
growth but not everyone experience the same; inequality;happiness; democracy
Open definitions: multidimensionality
Poverty reduction
Decreasing inequality
Equality
Equity
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What is democracy? (e.g. election; freedom; human rights; accountability; seperation of
power; rule of law; jacksonville act for USA president) . No agreement on the definition of
democrart but its dimensions -> narrow definition: election, you can catalogue countries by
this definition, free and fair election; peaceful alternation power, seperation of 3 powers)
Narrow definitions
Procedural (Schumpeter)
Substantive qualifications
Alternation in power (more more alternation and peaceful power it becomes,
the more country democratic)
Open definitions (adding substantive qualifications)
Free and fair elections
Open, inclusive, transparent, accountable institutions
Participation, voice
Human rights (democracy can rely on the culture of tolerance)
Culture of tolerance
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Dahl - Polyarchy
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Models of Democracy (is an umbrela concept)
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Source: Smit & Oosthuizen 2011
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Substantive concernsideology
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Important: democracy can be looked at/assessed or idealized
from different perspectives (cfr Easton Political System)-Input: How to get into power (elections, electoral systems, voting rights, turnout,
but also role of money in campaigning, role of media in electoral campaigns) are
different (link between political elite and business elite/mixure between economics
and politics). Here you can qualify democracy i.e. more or less democratic.
-Throughput: How power is exercised and decisions are taken (majority rules, veto-rights, transparency, accountability, participation, responsiveness, access to justice,
how policies are enacted, implemented) - The functioning of state institutions
(meritocracy, effectiveness, efficiency)
-Outputs: fairness of decisions and implementation (that is the nature of policy and
act)
-Outcomes: impact on economy, on civil society, (how democracy has impact)
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What is governance?
Read
-Fukuyama, What is Governance
-Governance is
-Governance analytics, the next steps
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What is governance?
Leftwich 1996 distinguishes
1. Narrow, technocratic definition:
sound development management: set of rules and institutions and a system of publicadministration which is open, transparent, efficient and accountable
Needed because provides clarity, stability and predictability for the private sector(engine of economic development)
(World Bank position eschews political judgements)
2. Broad, political definition:
Narrow +
Democratic politics (system of competitive party politics, regular and fair elections,independent judiciary, free press and protection of human rights)
(Western governments position, UNDP)
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ANALYTICAL CONCEPTS
INSTITUTIONSINSTITUTIONAL ARENAS - POLITICS
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What are institutions?
Narrow: rules and norms that constrain human behaviour (Douglas North 1990)
More open: rules/norms and organisations that constrain and enable human behaviourThis course: institutions are the rules of the gameorganisations are the players of the game
(Leftwich 2010)
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What are institutional arenas?
State
Market
Civil society (organize themselves in a voluntary basis. You
join an organization based on similarity, identity that is more
value norm references)
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What are political institutions? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLWsvWIttjE
State (Power, rule of law and institutional accountability) vs
mordern stateAccountability:
Democratic Accountability: (to THE PEOPLE )
No-procedural acountability:
Moral accoutability: (more closely related to ideal type of CSO)
Being accountable is a behaviorwhat kind of incentive that
generates this behavior? (competitive appears here as an
influence to behavior as well).
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Fukuyama: (based a lots on Weber)
Political institutions: 3 groups State power
Rule of law
Accountability
Definition of a modern state (Weber )
Monopoly on forcehas the right and ability to use violence, in legally defined
instances, against members of society, or against other states (state has monopoly
on violence and force e.g. arm forces. some countries in the reality doesnt have this
monopoly of force. This is the problem of Weber: at that time he doesnt have the
example of interest state: groups or region challenging the state)
Legitimacyits power is recognized by members of society and by other states asbased on law and some form of justice. (this is related a little bit accountability. A
helps to construct legitimacy
Territoriality and the populationthe state exists in a defined territory (which
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What is politics ?
Narrow definition
Open definition
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What is politics?
all the many activities of cooperation, conflict and negotiation
involved in decisions about the use, production and distributionof resources
Formal, informal, public, private, national local activities
All collective human activity: families, farms, companies,churches, sectors, issues.
Politics may be messy, stable, get in the way, but it isunavoidable, necessary and pervasive unique to the humanspecies
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Levels of politics
1) Rules of the game
Formal institutional arrangements Informal arrangements
Agreement on the basic rules of the games, and agreement on how tochange the rules lead to stable polities
Lengthy and conflict ridden process
Interaction between formal and informal institutional arrangements Complementarity
Undermining formal arrangements (patron-client)
Replacing dysfunctional formal arrangements
The critical level of politics because it establishes the regime, the
fundamental settlement
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Levels of politics
2) Games within the rules (how you play with the rule) this is the
second level of politics (e.g. country as an institution (the rule ofthe game) and then looks at individual cell within that country
e.g. hospitalhas its own rule and regulation)
The daily debates and contestations over policy and practice: = normalpolitics
Within the established rules of the game
Stability of rulesgradual change => predictable environment
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Rules of the game vs games within rules
Example: Olympic games
Rules of the game:
Rules are set per sport, formal and informal - No discussion, only interpretation
(arbiters, juries) - No respect for the rules: sanctions
Changing of the rules linked to specific procedures
Games within rules
Competition strategies (defensive play, aggressive play)
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The politics of development
Is about changing:
How resources are being produced, used and distributed
How decisions are taken about such changes and about the
politics which sustain, implement and extend them
States/governments which deploy such politics AND are able to
produce developmental results are DEVELOPMENTAL STATES (as
a concept are actually those state deliver development results
within a certain timeframe; state has sustain growth rate
overtime but they are not democratic e.g. Ethiophia, Ruanda,guranda..)
Are developmental states democratic? (
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Developmentdemocracy combined
Developmental Non-developmental
Democratic
Non-democratic
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WHY OUR FOCUS ON POLITICS AND
INSTITUTIONS ?
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P liti il?
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Politics: a necessary evil?
Associated with Corruption and dirty business
Inefficiency
Ineffectiveness
Trust in politicians has decreased everywhere
In Africa: political institutions are the least trusted (african
trust business more than politic)
Fantasies of statelessnessanti-politics atmosphere A curious blindness to the importance of political institutions
L and R: Marx - Anti-globalists - Global economy replacing sovereign states
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Nonetheless
Political institutions are vital
and politics are unescapable
WHY ?
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Political institutions are vital because
A market economy rests on:
Institutional arrangements regarding property rightsRule of law
A basic political order
Democracy rests on:
Vigorous civil society
Free market
But most importantly: a strong hierarchical gvt that is Legitimate
Rule bound
Accountable
Poor countries are not poor because they lack resources, but because they lackeffective political institutions
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And politics are unescapable because
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And politics are unescapable because
most dimensions in our lives are affected by the actions of
others human interaction is fully rule-based
establishment (and enforcement) of rules is what politics is
about
If politics are th problem, then it is exactly there where
solutions must be found.
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Why dont we appreciate politics and political
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institutions?
A complex story of principles, expectations and reality
Worldwide an increased preference for democratic
principles
Transition to democratic governance raises theexpectations of population
Performance of democratically elected governments
remains problematic Critical citizens
Underperforming governments
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Where do institutions come from? How do you
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get to Denmark?
Mythical Denmark
How do you get Somalia, Haiti, Nigeria, DRC, Afghanistan
to Denmark? international community imports Denmarksinstitutions
Problems:
- Time horizon
- Cultural values
- History
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