Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries
Cambridge University Press, 11/16/2017
EAN 9781108405515, ISBN10: 1108405517
Paperback, 258 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical framework for development practitioners, policymakers, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries across a wide range of issues. Based on the classic policy sciences approach, the book offers over 100 diagnostic indicators keyed to identify problems of policy processes, policy content, bureaucratic behavior, stakeholder behavior, and national-subnational interactions. This multi-disciplinary framework is applied to a host of policy problems that particularly plague countries experiencing the 'under-development syndrome', including aborted programs and projects, policy impasses, distorted implementation, unnecessary harm and conflict, and shortsighted initiatives. These points are illustrated through cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Based on the developing countries' distinctive challenges, the book also offers recommendations on improving policy content and institutions to address the typical limitations.
1. Challenges to effective development policymaking
2. The policy process in developing countries really is different
3. The expert's risk
endorsing ill-fated initiatives
4. The expert's frustration
rejection of sound knowledge or recommendations
5. Overcoming the impasses that block sound initiatives
6. Inconsistent or incomplete enactment of initiatives
7. Inadequate accommodation for excessive deprivation
8. Reducing avoidable conflict
9. Minimizing shortsighted policies
10. Adapting policy initiatives and institutions
11. Conclusions.