Dynamics and Policy Implications of the Global Reforms at the End of the Second Millennium

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11847-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 78, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

Most people, and indeed governments, hold the conviction that reforms, rather than revolutions, are likely to produce more appropriate and acceptable results. This is especially true for developing countries. That is because reforms are gradual in their implementation and respectful to past policy fabrics of a society.
On the other hand, the simultaneous spread of communication technology, global liberalization of the market, and peripheral homogenization of cultures, have caused extreme tensions in just these developing countries. In this book, scholars from different countries around the world highlight the reforms and the tensions, in the light of the questions: what has been achieved, what has failed, and what is still needed? Experiences from such diverse locations as Nigeria, Ghana, Guatemala, South Korea, Taiwan, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania are combined with more general observations from other countries.

Contributors are Don Adams, N’dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Thomas Clayton, Mark Ginsburg, Julius O. Ihonvbere, Kent Klitgaard, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Martha Mantilla, Arild Schou, Judy Sylvester, and Yidan Wang

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lumumba-Kasongo, Tukumbi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO
Introduction

JULIUS O. IHONVBERE
Politics of Constitutional Reforms and Democratization in Africa

MARK GINSBURG, DON ADAMS, THOMAS CLAYTON, MARTHA MANTILLA, JUDY SYLVESTER, AND YIDAN WANG
The Politics of Linking Educational Research, Policy and Practice: the Case of Improving Educational Quality in Ghana, Guatemala, and Mali

KENT KLITGAARD
Environmental Reforms in the United States: Policy and Political Implications, and Economic and Scientific Arguments

AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI
Neoliberal Economic Reforms and Workers of the Third World at the End of the Second Millennium of the Christian Era

N’DRI THÉRÈSE ASSIÉ-LUMUMBA
Educational and Economic Reforms, Gender Equity, and Access to Schooling in Africa

ARILD SCHOU
Democratic Local Government and Responsiveness: Lessons from Zimbabwe and Tanzania

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX