Summary
Contents
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This Handbook presents an authoritative and innovative overview of this fascinating field, with particular emphasis on the significant new and emerging concepts and theoretical issues. Divided into four parts, the first explores the major theories influencing current thinking and shaping future research in the field of governance. Part two deals specifically with issues surrounding new theories - the changing role of the state and the emerging function of networks and of alternative domains of governance. Parts three and four then go on to consider the implications for managing governance and recent attempts to rethink democracy and citizenship in ways that are less tied to the formal institutions of the state
Development Theory
Development Theory
Introduction
Following World War II competing theories sought to explain how and why economic development takes place. For awhile now, the theoretical framework has narrowed. Mainstream development theory has settled into the neoclassical economic tradition, albeit with variations.
In contrast to the narrowing of economic development theory, the meaning of ...
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