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Everyday Choices by Ellen LustAuthor: Ellen Lust
Everyday Choices: The Role of Competing Authorities and Social Institutions in Politics and DevelopmentAbstractScholars and practitioners seek development solutions through the engineering and strengthening of state institutions. Yet, the state is not the only or often even the primary arena shaping how citizens, service providers, and state officials engage in actions that constitute politics and development. These individuals are members of religious orders, ethnic communities, and other groups that make claims about them, creating incentives that shape their actions. Recognizing how individuals experience these claims and view the choices before them is essential to understanding political processes and development outcomes. Taking an institutional approach, this Element explains how the salience of arenas of authority associated with various communities and the nature of social institutions within them affect politics and development. It establishes a framework of politics and development that allows for knowledge accumulation, guides future research, and can facilitate effective programming. This title is also available as OpenAccess on Cambridge Core. Keywords: development, social institutions, political behaviour, authority, service provision Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Language: en Genres: Government, Science, Social Sciences Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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7.3 Towards Effective Development
Episode 35
Monday, 19 December, 2022
7.3 Towards Effective Development"The approach outlined here benefits scholars and practitioners alike. For scholars, it provides new insights into studies of both the state and social forces. Studies that focus solely on the impact of political institutions on outcomes are likely to attribute far more import to the political institutions than is warranted. So too, efforts to understand the role of identity or to link identities and social conditions – such as economic inequalities or rural–urban divides – are incomplete unless they consider the relationship between such identities and overlapping arenas of authority." Full Chapter via Cambridge Core: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/everyday-choices/41C482AE689FE13A4A4A4EFA480032D3This audiobook is produced by Mediateknik at the University of Gothenburg.© Lust, E. (2022). Everyday Choices: The Role of Competing Authorities and Social Institutions in Politics and Development (Elements in the Politics of Development). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009306164 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
