Civil Society & Development: A Critical ExplorationLynne Rienner Publishers, 2001 - 267 pages Setting out to explore critically the way civil society has entered development thinking, policy and practice as a paradigmatic concept of the 21st century, Howell (development studies, U. of Sussex) and Pearce (Latin American politics, U. of Bradford) trace the historical path leading to the encounter between the ideas of development and civil society in the late 1980s and how donors have translated these into development policy an programs. They find that there are competing normative visions, which have deep roots in Western European political thought, about the role of civil society in relation to the state and market both among donors and within the societies where donors are operating. This leads to donors playing a major role in shaping the character of service provision. They also argue that their study exposes the hitherto unexplored power of the market, as opposed to solely the state, to distort donor programs. c. Book News Inc. |
Contents
Genealogies of | 13 |
The Case of China | 123 |
Civil Society Discourses and the Guatemalan Peace Process | 147 |
Conclusion | 229 |
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