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Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan

Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak, editors
Although scholars and practitioners have identified explicit structural impediments that constrain countries' efforts to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable social development, there has been limited research conducted to identify the specific barriers to development that prevail in Pakistan today. The authors of Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan go far toward filling this  More >

Development Methods and Approaches: Critical Reflections

Deborah Eade, editor
Many aid agencies advocate approaches to development that are people-centered, participatory, empowering, and gender-fair. This volume explores the middle ground between such values-based approaches and the methods and techniques that the agencies adopt. Contributors argue that tools and methods will contribute to a values-based approach only if those using them have a serious commitment to a  More >

Development NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement

Deborah Eade and Alan Leather, editors
While NGOs and unions will naturally pursue diverse strategies and tactics, neither sector can afford to go it alone. The authors of Development NGOs and Labor Unions elucidate some of the underlying tensions between the two and illustrate the scope for constructive dialogue—and potential partnership—between them.  More >

Development with Women

Deborah Eade, editor
Drawn from the contents of the acclaimed journal Development in Practice, this book explores such issues such as "mainstreaming" versus specialization, methodologies for incorporating gender analysis into planning and evaluation, the limitations of gender training, the unintended impacts of women-focused credit programs, and how institutional policies to promote gender equity are often  More >

Development, Social Policy, and Community Action: Lessons From Below

Leila Patel and Marianne S. Ulriksen, editors
Solutions to poverty and inequality are often designed, implemented, and evaluated in a top-down manner. The authors of this book turn things around, using a range of research approaches to show how social-assistance policies can be crafted to support local communities to effect positive change. Though based on studies conducted in the urban area of Doornkop, South Africa, the work applies equally  More >

Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential

Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, editor
For some time in diaspora studies, attention to remittances has overshadowed the growing impact of emigrant groups both within the social and political arenas in their homelands and with regard to fundamental economic development. The authors of Diasporas and Development redress this imbalance, focusing on three core issues: the responses of diasporas to homeland conflicts, strategies for  More >

Different Responses to Violence in Japan and America

John P.J. Dussich, Paul C. Friday, Takayuki Okada, Akira Yamagami, and Richard D. Knudten

Dilemmas of Democratic Consolidation: A Game-Theory Approach

Jay Ulfelder
Why have so many attempts at democracy in the past half-century failed? Confronting this much discussed question, Jay Ulfelder offers a novel explanation for the coups and rebellions that have toppled fledgling democratic regimes and that continue to threaten many new democracies today. Ulfelder draws on an original dataset of 110 democratic failures spanning 1955–2007 and also presents  More >

Dilemmas of Reform in Jiang Zemin's China

Andrew J. Nathan, Zhaohui Hong, and Steven R. Smith, editors
As China enters a stage of economic reform more challenging and risky than any that has gone before, the pressure for political liberalization grows apace. This volume explores the dilemmas of this new phase of complex change. The authors—most of whom write with the insight that comes from having lived and worked within the Chinese system—analyze how the evolution of China’s  More >

Direct Democracy: A Double-Edged Sword

Shauna Reilly
Direct democracy typically is lauded for putting power in the hands of the people. But is it really as democratic as it seems? To what extent, and in what circumstances, is it less about citizen power and more about external influences seeking to manipulate outcomes? Addressing these issues, Shauna Reilly draws on and compares case studies of referendums, recall elections, and initiatives  More >
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