Kamran Afzal, Mark Considine

Democratic Accountability and International Human Development (eBook, ePUB)

Regimes, institutions and resources

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book significantly expands the human development approach. It concentrates on public spending for human development and shows how the broader paradigm of public accountability - extending beyond democratic accountability to also include bureaucratic and judicial institutions as well as modes of tax and resource mobilisation - can best explain how states allocate public resources for human development. In this sense, as this book finds, enhancing human capabilities requires not only effective party competition and fair elections, but also a particular nesting of public organisational structures that are tied to taxpaying citizens in an undisturbed chain of accountability. This volume offers some critical lessons for institutional design and the way we approach the question of human development, particularly in the less developed states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317661320
• Artikelnr.: 41940611

Autorenporträt

Kamran Ali Afzal is a career civil servant in Pakistan and has served on a range of administrative and policymaking positions over the past twenty years. He earned his PhD in political economy from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and his areas of interest include public policy, governance, public finance, and social development.

Mark Considine is Professor of Political Science and Dean of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include public governance studies, comparative social policy, reform of higher education and public service reform.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Centrality of the Human Development Approach 2. Traversing the
Known: Potential Determinants of Public Spending and Performance 3.
Democratic Accountability and Public Spending on Human Development: A
Theoretical Construction 4. What Really Drives Human Development Spending
and Outcomes? 5. Why Governments Differ in Spending on Human Development
6. From Increased Democratic Accountability to Better Human Development
Outcomes 7. Pakistan and India: Of Military Ballads and Popular Ballots 8.
Botswana: A Miracle of Institutions 9. Argentina: A Tale Told by Taxation
10. Conclusion: Ending a Story to Begin Another