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Author: Mark Moyar Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316473112 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 501
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Current foreign aid programs are failing because they are based upon flawed assumptions about how countries develop. They attempt to achieve development without first achieving good governance and security, which are essential prerequisites for sustainable development. In focusing on the poorer members of society, they neglect the elites upon whose leadership the quality of governance and security depends. By downplaying the relevance of cultural factors to development, they avoid altering cultural characteristics that account for most of the weaknesses of elites in poor nations. Drawing on a wealth of examples from around the world, the author shows that foreign aid can be made much more effective by focusing it on human capital development. Training, education, and other forms of assistance can confer both skills and cultural attributes on current and future leaders, especially those responsible for security and governance.
Author: Mark Moyar Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316473112 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 501
Book Description
Current foreign aid programs are failing because they are based upon flawed assumptions about how countries develop. They attempt to achieve development without first achieving good governance and security, which are essential prerequisites for sustainable development. In focusing on the poorer members of society, they neglect the elites upon whose leadership the quality of governance and security depends. By downplaying the relevance of cultural factors to development, they avoid altering cultural characteristics that account for most of the weaknesses of elites in poor nations. Drawing on a wealth of examples from around the world, the author shows that foreign aid can be made much more effective by focusing it on human capital development. Training, education, and other forms of assistance can confer both skills and cultural attributes on current and future leaders, especially those responsible for security and governance.
Author: Vilfredo Pareto Publisher: Transaction Publishers ISBN: 0887388728 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 130
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Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph "Generalizations," originally published in 1920, this work illustrates how and why democratic forms of government undergo decay and are eventually reinvigorated. More than any other social scientist of his generation, Pareto offers a well-developed, articulate, and compelling theory of change based on a Newtonian vision of science and an engineering model of social equilibrium. This dynamic involves a shifting balance among the countervailing forces of centralization and decentralization of power, economic expansion and contraction, and liberalism versus traditionalism in public sentiment. By 1920, Pareto had developed a scheme for predicting shifts in magnitude of these forces and subsequent change in the character of society. This book will be of interest to students, teachers, or general readers interested in political science, sociology and late-nineteenth/ early-twentieth century social theory. Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was a pioneer in the field of econometrics, but gained fame, most of it posthumous, through his contributions to sociology and political science. Though often claimed by activist-rightist groups and a contributor to fascist thinking, he avoided alignment with any political movement.
Author: Ryan Schwab-Segoria Publisher: ISBN: 9781649214751 Category : Languages : en Pages : 460
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Nathan Oreb isn't a hero. He's used to working under the shadow of silence, skirting under the wrong side of the law, and getting a paycheck soaked in blood. Nathan Oreb is a hitman and he's just taken on his biggest hit yet: his own boss, Julio Vasquez-the head of the largest drug cartel in North America. Who orders this hit? Rachel Evans, a timid teenager and daughter of an addict. When Rachel approached the great El Silencio, the most dreaded hitman in the west, she never expected to gaze into the emerald eyes of her own classmate. However, with her kid brother kidnapped by Julio, she doesn't have much of a choice. Despite Nathan's superhuman abilities, he fails to rescue the child when he's forced to fight Julio's own remarkable powers. Unable to overpower the ubiquitous drug-lord, Nathan retreats as Julio takes the child to his hidden compound in the Rocky Mountains. Beaten, but not yet defeated, Nathan recruits several superpowered people-known to the world as 'Elites'-to aid in his mission, including his long-term rival, the city's resident superhero The Speedster. Tasked with turning these novice Elites into a team capable of going against the might of Julio's cartel, Nathan must locate the compound before the drug-lord disposes of the stolen child.
Author: Anand Giridharadas Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0451493257 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 300
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news. "Impassioned.... Entertaining reading.” —The Washington Post Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can—except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. They rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in ways that preserve the status quo; and they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? His groundbreaking investigation has already forced a great, sorely needed reckoning among the world’s wealthiest and those they hover above, and it points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world—a call to action for elites and everyday citizens alike.
Author: Florian Sarges Publisher: ISBN: 9783848737208 Category : Economic assistance Languages : en Pages : 0
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This study empirically demonstrates the high relevance of elite-compatible project design as an essential condition for improving the effectiveness of foreign aid projects. Elite compatibility is a new approach derived from the recent discussion of institutions in the development discourse: the incentive compatibility of a project design with the interests of the elites in the recipient country. While elites have been largely neglected in the debate on development aid, they are central to the question of its effectiveness both from a theoretical point of view as well as in practice. The elite compatibility approach incorporates this aspect and offers an insightful criterion for project design.
Author: Iliana Olivié Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429802404 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 317
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Aid Power and Politics delves into the political roots of aid policy, demonstrating how and why governments across the world use aid for global influence, and exploring the role it plays in present-day global governance and international relations. In reconsidering aid as part of international relations, the book argues that the interplay between domestic and international development policy works in both directions, with individual countries having the capacity to shape global issues, whilst at the same time, global agreements and trends, in turn, shape the political behaviour of individual countries. Starting with the background of aid policy and international relations, the book goes on to explore the behaviour of both traditional and emerging donors (the US, the UK, the Nordic countries, Japan, Spain, Hungary, Brazil, and the European Union), and then finally looks at some big international agendas which have influenced donors, from the liberal consensus on democracy and good governance, to gender equality and global health. Aid Power and Politics will be an important read for international development students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers, and for anyone who has ever wondered why it is that countries spend so much money on the well-being of non-citizens outside their borders.
Author: Mitchell L Stevens Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674044037 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 319
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In real life, Stevens is a professor at Stanford University. But for a year and a half, he worked in the admissions office of a bucolic New England college known for its high academic standards, beautiful campus, and social conscience. Ambitious high schoolers and savvy guidance counselors know that admission here is highly competitive. But creating classes, Stevens finds, is a lot more complicated than most people imagine.
Author: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Publisher: Haymarket Books ISBN: 1642597147 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 111
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“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, identity politics is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests. But the trouble, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò deftly argues, is not with identity politics itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition and a critical understanding of racial capitalism, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests. Táíwò’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of “class” vs. “race.” By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.
Author: Janine R. Wedel Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1458759261 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 590
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It can feel like we're swimming in a sea of corruption. It's unclear who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The same influential people seem to reappear time after time in different professional guises, pressing their own agendas in one venue after another. According to award-winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine Wedel, these are the powerful ''shadow elite,'' the main players in a vexing new system of power and influence. In this groundbreaking book, Wedel charts how this shadow elite, loyal only to their own, challenge both governments' rules of accountability and business codes of competition to accomplish their own goals. From the Harvard economists who helped privatize post-Soviet Russia and the neoconservatives who have helped privatize American foreign policy (culminating with the debacle that is Iraq) to the many private players who daily make public decisions without public input, these manipulators both grace the front pages and operate behind the scenes. Wherever they maneuver, they flout once-sacrosanct boundaries between state and private. Profoundly original, Shadow Elite gives us the tools we need to recognize these powerful yet elusive players and comprehend the new system. Nothing less than our ability for self-government and our freedom are at stake.
Author: Mark Moyar
Author: Mark Moyar
Author: Vilfredo Pareto
Author: Ryan Schwab-Segoria
Author: Anand Giridharadas
Author: Florian Sarges
Author: Iliana Olivié
Author: Graham Hancock
Author: Mitchell L Stevens
Author: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Author: Janine R. Wedel