TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrews,Matt
TI  - The limits of institutional reform in development: changing rules for realistic solutions 
SN  - 9781139060974 (ebook)
AV  - HC59.7 .A7945 2013
U1  - 338.9009172/4 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Institution building
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 1. Change rules, change governments, and develop? -- 2. Deconstructing the puzzling evidence of reform -- 3. Overlooking the change context -- 4. Reforms as overspecified and oversimplified solutions -- 5. Limited engagement, limited change -- 6. Expecting reform limits in development -- 7. Problem-driven learning sparks institutional change -- 8. Finding and fitting solutions that work -- 9. Broad engagement, broader (and deeper) change -- 10. Reforming rules of the development game itself
N2  - Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered relevant by implementing agents. The result is a set of new forms that do not function. However, there are realistic solutions emerging from institutional reforms in some developing countries. Lessons from these experiences suggest that reform limits, although challenging to adopt, can be overcome by focusing change on problem solving through an incremental process that involves multiple agents
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139060974
ER  -