This book is about the way ‘governance’ has become the new orthodoxy of development, following earlier failed attempts at building working market economies

Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or ‘quangos’, and portrayed the associated issues, like mon

This book seeks to understand how governance agendas are constructed at both the global and national levels and asks what factors define success and failure in

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