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Disciplining Democracy - Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa (Paperback)
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Not very long ago, authoritarian forms of government were widely
regarded as necessary for rapid economic growth and development,
and Western donors supported dictatorial regimes in every
continent. Today the political mantra is democracy, and the World
Bank and Western donors require it almost as a condition of
assistance. This thought-provoking book argues not simply that the
West's good governance agenda came into being with the demise of
the Soviet Union. Much more importantly, it shows how this agenda
comprises only very superficial democratic institutional forms that
are compatible with continued structural adjustment. African
governments, in particular, remain in a cleft stick - supposedly
responsible to their electorates at home, in fact beholden to
external creditors and donors. The result is the creation of
fragile democracies unable to respond to the demands of the poor -
who are in the great majority - for socio-economic improvements,
and where the requirements of external actors frequently overrule
the wishes of domestic constituencies. Using the example of the
good governance discourse, Rita Abrahamsen contributes powerfully
to our understanding of development, not as some universally valid
set of goals or procedures, but as a historically contingent form
of knowledge intimately connected to prevailing structures and
relations of power. Her book argues that a key effect of
contemporary development discourse, despite all its proclamations
in favour of democracy, is to help reproduce a world order that is
essentially undemocratic.
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