Building State Capability
Evidence, Analysis, Action
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 January 2017
- ISBN 9780198747482
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 240x175x22 mm
- Weight 552 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 Figures, 25 Tables, 6 Boxes 0
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Short description:
This book uses data to identify failures in efforts to build state capability in development, employs theory to explain why these failures are common and likely to persist, and builds on applied experience to offer a new approach to build state capability more effectively.
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability.
This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back - particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past.
Building State Capability provides anyone interested in promoting development with practical advice on how to proceed--not by copying imported theoretical models, but through an iterative learning process that takes into account the messy reality of the society in question. The authors draw on their collective years of real-world experience as well as abundant data and get to what is truly the essence of the development problem.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: 'The Long Voyage of Discovery'
Part 1. The Problem: The Creation and Consolidation of Capability Traps
The Big Stuck in State Capability
Looking Like a State: The Seduction of Isomorphic Mimicry
Premature Load Bearing: Doing Too Much Too Soon
Capability for Policy Implementation
What Type of Organization Capability is Needed?
Part 2. A Strategy for Action: Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)
The Challenge of Building (Real) State Capability for Implementation
Doing Problem-Driven Work
The Searchframe: Doing Experimental Iterations
Managing Your Authorizing Environment
Building State Capability at Scale Through Groups
Wireless Sensor Networks and Energy Efficiency: Protocols, Routing and Management
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