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The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence

Sam Hickey, Kunal Sen, and Badru Bukenya

Abstract

It is now widely accepted that politics plays a significant role in shaping the possibilities for inclusive development. However, the specific ways in which this happens across different types and forms of development, and in different contexts, remains poorly understood. This collection provides the state of the art review regarding what is currently known about the politics of inclusive development. Leading academics offer systematic reviews of how politics shapes development across multiple dimensions, including through growth, natural resource governance, poverty reduction, service deliver ... More

Keywords: politics, inclusive development, political settlement, accumulation, citizenship, recognition, transnational

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2014 Print ISBN-13: 9780198722564
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2015 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198722564.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Sam Hickey, editor
IDPM, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester

Kunal Sen, editor
IDPM, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester

Badru Bukenya, editor
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Foreword

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Part I Introduction

1 Exploring the Politics of Inclusive Development: Towards a New Conceptual Approach

Sam Hickey, Kunal Sen, and Badru Bukenya

Part II The Politics of Accumulation and Growth

2 The Political Determinants of Economic Growth: An Analytical Review

Kunal Sen

3 The Politics of What Works for the Poor in Public Expenditure and Taxation

Paul Mosley

4 Governing Natural Resources for Inclusive Development

Anthony Bebbington

Part III The Politics of Social and Legal Citizenship: Promoting and Protecting the Rights of the Poor?

5 The Politics of What Works in Service Delivery

Claire Mcloughlin

6 Political Factors in the Growth of Social Assistance

Armando Barrientos, and Sony Pellissery

7 The Politics—and Process—of Rule of Law Systems in Developmental States

Deval Desai, and Michael Woolcock

Part IV The Politics of Recognition

8 The Gendered Politics of Securing Inclusive Development

Sohela Nazneen, and Simeen Mahmud

9 Ethnicity, State Capacity, and Development: Reconsidering Causal Connections

Prerna Singh, and Matthias vom Hau

Part V The Transnational Politics of Development

10 The Politics of Aid Revisited: A Review of Evidence on State Capacity and Elite Commitment

Arjan de Haan, and Ward Warmerdam

11 China in Africa: Impacts and Prospects for Accountable Development

Giles Mohan

End Matter

Bibliography

Index