Common Good Approach to Development : : Collective Dynamics of Development Processes /

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

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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 develop...

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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
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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?

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