The text is illustrated with many development cases, hypothetical
situations, examples, and role-playing exercises. The book is well
researched and well written. It will be useful to students and
teachers of development administration. --RISA "Staudt's very
readable text is peppered with numerous illustrative examples from
throughout the world (including the United States and other
developed countries) that bring potentially esoteric issues to
life. Also included are brief case studies, role-playing exercises,
and staggered assignments for individual projects that can be used
by imaginative instructors to promote hands-on involvement. An
appendix lists other useful sources for case materials and the book
contains numerous valuable references to the recent literature on
development." --Gregory D. Schmidt, Northern Illinois University
"This book offers interesting features at both the pedagogical and
analytical levels. . . . The author's interdisciplinary approach as
well as her macro and micro perspectives give valuable insight into
the highly complex world of the management of development."
--International Review of Administrative Sciences "This is a superb
text, one that will be required reading by all scholars in the
field of development. It is particularly important for its
contribution to recent scholarship, and its use of new, innovative
approaches to development. This book is a breath of fresh air in a
field full of platitudes and old ideas. It will improve both
thinking and teaching about development management." --Jane L.
Parpart, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada "Long
overdue...This text is not only gender sensitive, but
interdisciplinary, theoretically grounded, policy relevant and,
best of all, interesting to read." --Sue Ellen Charlton, Colorado
State University "While theoretically aware and non-aligned (to any
official agency), Staudt's approach to development management is
essentially practical and pragmatic. Her concern for grassroots
participation is combined with a full appreciation of the
significance of national and international levels of decision
making and implementation, and of the roles of both governmental
and non-governmental organizations. In a style that is both direct
and clear, she informs, but does not prescribe, about the contexts,
the techniques, the institutions and the sectors in which, and with
which, management operates, providing in the process a variety of
challenging and realistic case studies. She also succeeds admirably
in integrating gender--as a matter of common sense--into the
mainstream of international development management concerns."
--David Hirschmann, The American University, Washington D.C. "This
text provides a brilliant juxtaposition of interrelated but
hitherto isolated fields in the complex and controversial political
economy of 'development.' The author brings unique, timely insights
and formats to bear, especially from indigenous Third World
activists, authors and scholars as well as practitioners. She
bridges the local and global, the political and the technical. Her
book is particularly welcome at the start of the 1990s as a truly
radical departure from the diversions and disappointments of
orthodox development administration and structural adjustment.
Hopefully, public policy will not be the same once this text is
distributed, digested and debated!" --Timothy W. Shaw, Dalhousie
University, Nova Scotia, Canada "Staudt presents a multifaceted
comprehensive analysis, with illustrative examples drawn from a
wide range of countries....a worthwhile contribution to recent
literature reporting on and assessing the record of governmentally
sponsored developmental efforts, with a focus on issues of
management and administration....Woven throughout the text are
commendable references to persistent deficiencies such as the
dearth of participation by women in development activities and the
frequency of a feeling of alienation and distance between
institutional staff members and the people they should be serving.
Another praiseworthy feature is inclusion of many teaching aids
such as cases, role playing sessions, and 'staggered assignments'
related to the preparation of individual projects....outstanding
source for bibliographical information about recent literature on
development." --Public Adminstration Review "A useful book for
those involved in development work, it moves beyond politics and
policy-making into organization for action and studies political
relationships between people, their organizations, and the state in
development projects. Case studies, examples and role-play
exercises are used to build analytic skills." --Intermediate
Technology Bookshop The complexities facing development managers
are vast. The enormous challenges to understanding the breadth and
depth of development transformation are apparent in each level of
this process and demand attention. Answering the need for a
comprehensive introductory resource is Managing Development. This
fresh perspective on development management analyzes both
international and national development agencies and shows the
widely differing cultural contexts in which to plan, manage, and
evaluate development programs. Stressing political context and
process throughout, the focus, nevertheless, in Managing
Development is on bureaucratic politics and political relationships
between people, their organizations, and the state in development
programs and projects. The chapters examine development programs in
agriculture and health, particularly reproductive health, and
provide hypothetical situations, examples, and roleplay exercises.
A well integrated treatment of development teaching, learning, and
applications, this volume shows that much can be learned from the
analysis of both successful and unsuccessful development programs.
Managing Development is the essential resource for courses in
development studies, political science, comparative politics, urban
studies, and policy studies, as well as for planners and
researchers in development management.
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