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Governance, good governance and global governance: conceptual and actual challenges
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In this paper, the authors take seriously the proposition that ideas and concepts, both good and bad, have an impact on international public policy, and they situate the emergence of governance, good governance and global governance, as well as the UN's role in the conceptual process.Abstract:
This article takes seriously the proposition that ideas and concepts, both good and bad, have an impact on international public policy. It situates the emergence of governance, good governance and global governance, as well as the UN's role in the conceptual process. Although 'governance' is as old as human history, this essay concentrates on the intellectual debates of the 1980s and 1990s but explores such earlier UN-related ideas as decolonisation, localisation and human rights, against which more recent thinking has been played out. A central analytical perspective is the tension between many academics and international practitioners who employ 'governance' to connote a complex set of structures and processes, both public and private, while more popular writers tend to use it synonymously with 'government'.read more
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At War's End: Building Peace after Civil Conflict
TL;DR: A more sensible approach to post-conflict peacebuilding would seek, first, to establish a system of domestic institutions that are capable of managing the destabilizing effects of democratization and marketization within peaceful bounds and only then phase in political and economic reforms slowly, as conditions warrant as mentioned in this paper.
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Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: Progresa/Oportunidades, Mexico's Conditional Transfer Programme
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the changes and continuities in social protection in Latin America through a focus on the ways in which motherhood is positioned as key to the success of the new anti-poverty programmes that have followed structural reform and examine a flagship cash transfer programme known as Progresa/Oportunidades (Opportunities) established in Mexico in 1997 and now being widely adopted in the region.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the implementation of such reforms without sufficient government institutions can provoke the regression of these countries into conflict and propose a new strategy called institutionalisation before liberalisation, which first builds a strong institutional base, which may then allow the introduction of democratic and liberal reforms capable of creating a lasting peace.
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Conceptualizing Climate Governance Beyond the International Regime
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the conceptual challenges posed by the increasing involvement of non-nation-state actors in the governance of climate change and explore the potential for drawing from alternative theoretical traditions to address these challenges.
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TL;DR: In this article, a general theory of the rate of interest was proposed, and the subjective and objective factors of the propensity to consume and the multiplier were considered, as well as the psychological and business incentives to invest.
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
TL;DR: Putnam et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, revealing patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
TL;DR: Fukuyama as discussed by the authors argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism and argued that in an era when social capital may be as important as physical capital, only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the flexible, large scale business organizations that are needed to compete in the new global economy.