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View article: Capturing the disruptive nature of green energy transitions: A political economy approach
Capturing the disruptive nature of green energy transitions: A political economy approach Open
This paper seeks to develop a new analytical framework for understanding the disruptive dynamics of green energy transitions. While the empirical reality of such disruptions is widely recognised, the only literature within which disruption…
View article: Rights and Recognition Puzzles
Rights and Recognition Puzzles Open
This chapter explores what drives ruling elites to offer protection to vulnerable and excluded groups. It focuses on two different types of response: the adoption of non-contributory forms of social assistance targeted at vulnerable groups…
View article: Political Economy Puzzles
Political Economy Puzzles Open
This chapter discusses two critical puzzles. Why do some countries achieve higher and more consistent rates of economic growth than others? And why do some countries avoid the so-called resource curse? Our work on economic growth focuses o…
View article: Social Provisioning Puzzles
Social Provisioning Puzzles Open
There is a growing appreciation that social provisioning in the global south is closely shaped by politics, particularly in terms of the level of public expenditure that governments are willing to commit to sectors such as education and he…
View article: The Politics of Governance and State Capacity
The Politics of Governance and State Capacity Open
The question of what role the state should play in delivering and enabling development has long been at the heart of development theory and policy debates. The mainstream response from the 1990s until the late 2000s was dominated by the ‘g…
View article: APPENDICES
APPENDICES Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: Conclusions and Implications
Conclusions and Implications Open
This chapter summarizes the book’s key findings and discusses the theoretical and strategic implications that arise from these. It confirms that politics plays a critical role in shaping developmental processes and outcomes, argues that a …
View article: Pockets of Effectiveness
Pockets of Effectiveness Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: Reconceptualizing the Politics of Development
Reconceptualizing the Politics of Development Open
The first decade of the twenty-first century saw the emergence of a shift from ‘institutions matter’ to ‘politics matters’ within discussions of why some countries have managed to achieve higher levels of development than others. A key foc…
View article: Pathways to Development
Pathways to Development Open
This chapter introduces the core question of the book, namely: ‘Under what conditions do governments become committed to and capable of delivering development?’ It critiques what has been the dominant response to this question within inter…
View article: Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa
Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa Open
The role of bureaucratic ‘pockets of effectiveness’ (PoEs) in delivering development is generating renewed interest within development studies and development policy. In summarizing the state-of-the art in the field, this chapter shows tha…
View article: The Politics of PoEs in Uganda
The Politics of PoEs in Uganda Open
Uganda’s impressive level of economic performance over much of the past three decades has often been linked to the performance of certain ‘pockets of effectiveness’ (PoEs), including the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Uganda, and, more u…
View article: Reconceptualizing the Politics of Pockets of Effectiveness
Reconceptualizing the Politics of Pockets of Effectiveness Open
This previous chapter argued that existing studies of PoEs have struggled to specify the forms of politics that shape how PoEs emerge and perform PoEs over time. To help address this problem, this chapter outlines the new conceptual and me…
View article: The Khan and Levy Approaches
The Khan and Levy Approaches Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: Political Settlements and Development
Political Settlements and Development Open
Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development communities in recent years as powerfully as the idea of a ‘political settlement’. At its most ambitious, ‘political settlements analysis’ (PSA) promises to explain…
View article: Survey Countries’ Periodic Movement in the Political Settlement Space
Survey Countries’ Periodic Movement in the Political Settlement Space Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: A List of Archetypal Political Settlements
A List of Archetypal Political Settlements Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: Copyright Page
Copyright Page Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: A Few Simple Game Models of Collective-action Problems Related to Political Settlements
A Few Simple Game Models of Collective-action Problems Related to Political Settlements Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: Measuring Political Settlements
Measuring Political Settlements Open
Chapter 4 moves to measurement and testing. A lack of clear guidelines for measurement has bedevilled political settlements analysis (PSA) and limited its acceptance by the social scientific mainstream. Here, the authors discuss how to ide…
View article: Political Settlement Survey Instrument and Coder Notes
Political Settlement Survey Instrument and Coder Notes Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: Unbundling the Social Foundation over Time in Democratic-era South Africa
Unbundling the Social Foundation over Time in Democratic-era South Africa Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: Collective-action Problems and Development
Collective-action Problems and Development Open
This chapter takes a further step towards enhancing political settlement analysis’s formal rigour. It offers a framework that permits systematic inquiry into relationships between distributions of power, institutional evolution, and prospe…
View article: Alternative Regression Analysis Results
Alternative Regression Analysis Results Open
Subject Economic Development and Growth Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
View article: Testing the Relations between Political Settlements, Conflict, and Development
Testing the Relations between Political Settlements, Conflict, and Development Open
This chapter bolsters the external validity of the authors’ findings by subjecting them to large-N analysis, using the 2,718 country-years in their forty-two-country dataset, helping to address some of the challenges to PSA outlined in Cha…
View article: Summary, Policy Implications, and Future Research
Summary, Policy Implications, and Future Research Open
This chapter concludes, summarizing the argument, the main findings, and considering the implications. The advice given should be treated as a set of ‘first bets’, or ‘compass bearings’ for policymakers, especially development partners, wh…