Building state capability : evidence, analysis, action / Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Matt, 1972- author.

Pritchett, Lant, author.

Woolcock, Michael J. V., 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State, The.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back.

Contents:

Introduction : the "long voyage of discovery"

The big stuck in state capability

Looking like a state : the seduction of isomorphic mimicry

Premature load bearing : doing too much too soon

Capability for policy implementation

What type of organization capability is needed?

The challenge of building (real) state capability for implementation

Doing problem-driven work

The searchframe : doing experimental iterations

Managing your authorizing environment

Building state capability at scale through groups.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 5, 2017).

ISBN:

9780191064692

0191064696

9780191810343

0191810347

9780191064685

0191064688

OCLC:

976483623

Publisher Number:

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198747482.001.0001

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access