Allies or Adversaries
Cambridge University Press, 8/18/2016
EAN 9781107162983, ISBN10: 110716298X
Hardcover, 292 pages, 23.5 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Governments throughout the developing world have witnessed a proliferation of non-governmental, non-profit organizations (NGOs) providing services like education, healthcare and piped drinking water in their territory. In Allies or Adversaries, Jennifer N. Brass explains how these NGOs have changed the nature of service provision, governance, and state development in the early twenty-first century. Analyzing original surveys alongside interviews with public officials, NGOs and citizens, Brass traces street-level government-NGO and state-society relations in rural, town and city settings of Kenya. She examines several case studies of NGOs within Africa in order to demonstrate how the boundary between purely state and non-state actors blurs, resulting in a very slow turn toward more accountable and democratic public service administration. Ideal for scholars, international development practitioners, and students interested in global or international affairs, this detailed analysis provides rich data about NGO-government and citizen-state interactions in an accessible and original manner.
List of figures and tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. NGOs and state development
2. Theorizing NGOs and the state
territoriality, governance, capacity, legitimacy
3. Kenya as case study
historical portraits of NGOs and the state
4. Territoriality
NGOs and the broadcasting of state power
5. NGOs' role in governance
changing patterns of policymaking and implementation
6. NGOs, service provision and administrative capacity
isomorphism through learning in the civil service
7. Have NGOs decreased perceptions of state legitimacy over time?
8. NGOs
increase state legitimacy or undermine popular support?
9. Blurring the boundaries between NGOs and the state
a comparative analysis
Appendix
References
Index.