Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29819
Title: Introduction
Contributor(s): Lahai, John Idriss  (author)orcid ; Von Strokirch, Karin  (author)orcid ; Brasted, Howard  (author)orcid ; Ware, Helen  (author)
Publication Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90749-9_1
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29819
Abstract: Conventional wisdom on "governance and political adaptation in fragile states" has focused largely on the shortcomings of the governance models of fragile states. This volume tells another story: the story of resilience in the various ways that fragile states (or states with limited statehood) in Africa, South Asia, the South Pacific, and Central America have adopted, and adapted to, the processes of liberal political governance in their quests to address the problem of political fragility. These adaptive institutionalized creations have included public sector reforms, the adoption of gender responsive governance, the promotion of multiparty political participation, improved justice systems, stringent anti-graft laws, the empowerment of local/grassroots organizations and the broadening of civil society participation, and the ratification of international conventions on responsible governance, and interstate peer-to-peer governance mechanism. In addition to singular or comparative country case studies, this volume examines the interplay of culture (cultures that have been deemed antithetical to Western notions of governance) and politics in the creation of people-centric governance reforms. The theoretical foundations of this volume, which all contributing authors used in their examination of the multi-faceted dimensions of governance in their respective case studies, are the concepts of "political adaptation" and "state resilience."
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States, p. 1-11
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication: Cham, Switzerland
ISBN: 9783319907499
9783319907482
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 210302 Asian History
210310 Middle Eastern and African History
160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 430301 Asian history
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940203 Political Systems
940299 Government and Politics not elsewhere classified
970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 230203 Political systems
280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies
280123 Expanding knowledge in human society
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Editor: Editor(s): John Idriss Lahai, Karin von Strokirch, Howard Brasted and Helen Ware
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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