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Well-meaning Westerners want to find ways to help the less
fortunate. Today, many are not just volunteering abroad and
donating to international nonprofits but also advancing innovations
and launching projects that aim to be socially transformative.
However, often these activities are not efficient ways of helping
others, and too many projects cause more harm than good.
Reimagining Global Philanthropy shares the journey of a
conservative banker and a progressive professor to find a better
way forward. Kirk S. Bowman and Jon R. Wilcox explain the boom in
the global compassion industry, revealing the incentives that
produce inefficient practices and poor outcomes. Instead of
supporting start-up projects with long-shot hopes for success, they
argue, we can dramatically improve results by empowering local
leaders. Applying lessons from the success of community banks,
Bowman and Wilcox develop and implement a new model that
significantly raises philanthropic efficacy. Their straightforward
and rigorously tested approach calls for community members to take
the lead while outside partners play a supporting role. Bowman and
Wilcox recount how they tested the model in Brazil, demonstrating
the value of giving people in marginalized communities the
opportunity to innovate. In a time of widespread social reckoning,
this book shows how global philanthropy can confront its blind
spots and failures in order to achieve truly transformative
outcomes. Readers can access five of the documentary films
discussed in the book on a companion website. In addition to the
films, chapter discussion questions and other supplemental
materials are also available at the site.
The field of comparative politics traditionally has been divided
into two camps: on the one hand, quantitatively driven work on a
broad scale; on the other, more qualitative area studies. This
edited collection promotes a new approach to comparative politics
that transcends the debate about the future of the discipline. The
contributors' essays are innovative in their interweaving of case
studies of the political situations in particular regions with the
project of political theorizing. The chapters take as their points
of departure such diverse topics as the liberal tradition in United
States politics, the impact of drug-related violence on democratic
stability in Colombia, and the relationship between poverty
reduction and support for democracy in Mali, thereby resoundingly
demonstrating the broad relevance of the volume's unifying theme:
theoretically informed comparative analysis. Students of politics,
from advanced undergraduates to practicing scholars, will find this
volume useful in assessing, analyzing, and uniting the fields of
comparative politics and political theory.
The field of comparative politics traditionally has been divided
into two camps: on the one hand, quantitatively driven work on a
broad scale; on the other, more qualitative area studies. This
edited collection promotes a new approach to comparative politics
that transcends the debate about the future of the discipline. The
contributors' essays are innovative in their interweaving of case
studies of the political situations in particular regions with the
project of political theorizing. The chapters take as their points
of departure such diverse topics as the liberal tradition in United
States politics, the impact of drug-related violence on democratic
stability in Colombia, and the relationship between poverty
reduction and support for democracy in Mali, thereby resoundingly
demonstrating the broad relevance of the volume's unifying theme:
theoretically informed comparative analysis. Students of politics,
from advanced undergraduates to practicing scholars, will find this
volume useful in assessing, analyzing, and uniting the fields of
comparative politics and political theory.
Since the early 1980s, Latin American countries have been
innovative in a range of policy and cultural experiences, including
health care, voting, pensions, and multiculturalism. And yet, their
policy innovations are rarely found in textbooks. This book
addresses that gap, providing a fascinating and wide-ranging
exploration of both the history of "looking down" at Latin America
and the political, economic, and cultural "lessons" (including
successes, failures, and unintended consequences) that should
inform important policy discussions around the world.
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