Common Good Approach to Development : : Collective Dynamics of Development Processes / / Mathias Nebel, Oscar Garza-Vázquez, Clemens Sedmak, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Sedmak, Clemens,; Garza-Vázquez, Oscar,; Nebel, Mathias,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : Open Book Publishers,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 383 pages) :; illustrations

This edited collection proposes a common good approach to development theory and practice. Rather than focusing on the outcomes or conditions of development, the contributors concentrate on the quality of development processes, suggesting that a common good dynamic is key in order to trigger development.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Research Question -- 2. Why Do We Need a Common Good Approach? -- 3. A Common Good Approach to Development. Where Do We Stand? -- 4. Does a Common Good Approach to Development Undermines the Plurality of Modern Societies? -- 5. Why Measure Common Good Dynamics? -- 6. Structure of the Book -- References -- PART I: A COMMON GOOD APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT -- Introduction to Part I -- Aim of Part I -- To Whom Is it of Interest? -- Why Does it Matter? -- 1. The Theoretical Framework: Common Goods and Systems of Common Goods Reasserting the Notion of the Common Good in the Twenty-First Century -- 1. The Common Good Belongs to the Sphere of Action -- I.A Notion Implicit in All Public Action -- II. The Need to Act in Common: The Community Created by Common Action -- III. The Elements of Common Action -- 2. The Vocabulary of the Common Good -- I. The Social Good and the Shared Value of the Common Benefit -- II. The Good of Order and the Common Rationality it Creates -- III. A Specific Common Good -- IV. The Nexus of Common Goods -- 3. Aspiring to the Universal Common Good 4. The Common Good as the Dialectic of Politics -- I. The Conjunction of the Individual Good and the Good of the Community -- II. Wanting the Common Good -- III. The Dialectical Dynamic of the Common Good -- Conclusion: The Quality of Common Good Dynamics -- References -- 2. From Theory to Practice: A Matrix of Common Good Dynamics -- Part I: The Empirical Foundations of the Matrix -- I. Commons and Commoning -- II. Community-Based or Community-Driven Development Programmes -- III. Empirical Elements of the Matrix of Common Good Dynamics -- Part II: Toward a Matrix of Common Good Dynamics I. What Does the Matrix Capture? A Few Preliminary Remarks -- II. The Five Dimensions of the Matrix -- The Definition and Systemic Function of Each Dimension -- What Do We Mean by Collective Agency Freedom? -- And What about Governance? -- Justice as a Normative Driver of Common Good Dynamics -- The Dimension of Stability -- The Humanity Dimension -- III. A List of Basic Common Goods and Core Habitus -- A List of Basic Common Goods -- Which Set of Core Habitus? -- IV. A Relational Normativity: A Tool to Analyse Realities and Tell the Stories of Common Good Dynamics -- Conclusions -- References 3. Design and Reflection on the Metric of Common Dynamics -- Introduction -- 1. The Theoretical Foundations of the Survey -- 2. The Design of the Survey -- 3. The Dimensions of a Common Good Metric and Its Indicators -- I. Justice -- II. Stability -- III. Governance -- IV. Collective -- Agency Freedom -- V. Humanity -- 4. Discussion and Future Improvements -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- PART II: DISCUSSING THE NORMATIVE ELEMENTS OF COMMON GOOD DYNAMICS -- Introduction to Part II -- Aim of the Part II -- To Whom Is it of Interest? -- Why Does it Matter?