Making Sense of Governance : : Empirical Evidence from Sixteen Developing Countries / / Goran Hyden, Kenneth Mease, Julius Court.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hyden, Goran,; Court, Julius,; Mease, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)

Although governance has been the focus of a considerable body of literature on democratic transitions and consolidation, data to support the claim that the concept is a useful one has been lacking. Now, however, Making Sense of Governance clearly shows the utility of research on governance, presenting empirical evidence from sixteen developing countries.The authors focus on six arenas: civil, political, and economic society and the executive, bureaucracy, and judiciary. Demonstrating conclusively for the first time that perceptions of governance by local stakeholders are realistic indicators of the nature and quality of a political regime, they also reveal the dynamic nature of governance and to what extent it correlates with socioeconomic variables.This comprehensive study is based on interviews in Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Tanzania, Thailand, and Togo.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Governance, Democracy, and Development -- 2 Governance Performance: The Aggregate Picture -- 3 Civil Society -- 4 Political Society -- 5 Government -- 6 The Bureaucracy -- 7 Economic Society -- 8 The Judiciary -- 9 Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Data Collection and Analysis -- Appendix 2: World Governance Survey -- References -- Index -- About the Book