Govern Like Us : : U.S. Expectations of Poor Countries / / M. A. Thomas.
In the poorest countries, such as Afghanistan, Haiti, and Mali, the United States has struggled to work with governments whose corruption and lack of capacity are increasingly seen to be the cause of instability and poverty. The development and security communities call for "good governance&quo...
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Thomas, M. A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Govern Like Us : U.S. Expectations of Poor Countries / M. A. Thomas. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (264 p.) : 10 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Blind Spot -- 2. The Governance Ideal -- 3. Paper Empires, Paper Countries -- 4. Poor Countries, Poor Governments -- 5. Governing Cheaply -- 6. The Rule of Law -- 7. Governance as It Is -- 8. A Different Conversation -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the poorest countries, such as Afghanistan, Haiti, and Mali, the United States has struggled to work with governments whose corruption and lack of capacity are increasingly seen to be the cause of instability and poverty. The development and security communities call for "good governance" to improve the rule of law, democratic accountability, and the delivery of public goods and services. The United States and other rich liberal democracies insist that this is the only legitimate model of governance. Yet poor governments cannot afford to govern according to these ideals and instead are compelled to rely more heavily on older, cheaper strategies of holding power, such as patronage and repression. The unwillingness to admit that poor governments do and must govern differently has cost the United States and others inestimable blood and coin. Informed by years of fieldwork and drawing on practitioner work and academic scholarship in politics, economics, law, and history, this book explains the origins of poor governments in the formation of the modern state system and describes the way they govern. It argues that, surprisingly, the effort to stigmatize and criminalize the governance of the poor is both fruitless and destabilizing. The United States must pursue a more effective foreign policy to engage poor governments and acknowledge how they govern. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Developing countries Politics and government. Electronic books. Political culture Developing countries. Poverty Political aspects Developing countries. Public administration Developing countries. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665864 https://doi.org/10.7312/thom17120 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231539111 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231539111/original |
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