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• catalog abstract "This thought-provoking book does not simply link the West's good governance agenda with the demise of the Soviet Union. Abrahamsen shows that this democratic agenda involves little more than superficial institutional reforms. The West's primary goal in developing countries remains the enforcement of structural adjustment. African governments, in particular, remain in a double bind, nominally responsible to their electorates at home, but also beholden to external creditors and donors. Demands by impoverished electorates that their new democratic institutions actually work to defend their interests are often branded as illegitimate by the West.--Publisher description.".
• catalog contributor b12179770.
• catalog coverage "Africa Economic policy".
• catalog created "c2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "c2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
• catalog description "Democratisation and Development Discourse -- Conventional explanations -- Fictitious dichotomies -- A merely 'technical' adjustment -- Power/knowledge and the invention of development -- New World Order, New Development Discourse -- The changing fate of 'democracy' in development -- The end of the Cold War -- The failure of structural adjustment programmes -- Power, hegemony and the good governance discourse -- The Seductiveness of Good Governance -- Alien state intervention, indigenous democratic capitalism -- Liberating civil society -- Empowerment through cost recovery -- Good governance as modernisation theory -- The Democratisation of Poverty -- Democratic theory and contemporary debates -- Maintaining the status quo -- Whose Democracy? -- The economic roots of democratic demands -- Victory for the friends of adjustment -- Economic Liberalisation and Democratic Erosion -- No more 'cruel choices' -- Two irreconcilable constituencies -- 'Kill me now' -- Withering democracy? -- Exclusionary democracies -- The Success of the Good Governance Discourse.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [148]-163) and index.".
• catalog description "This thought-provoking book does not simply link the West's good governance agenda with the demise of the Soviet Union. Abrahamsen shows that this democratic agenda involves little more than superficial institutional reforms. The West's primary goal in developing countries remains the enforcement of structural adjustment. African governments, in particular, remain in a double bind, nominally responsible to their electorates at home, but also beholden to external creditors and donors. Demands by impoverished electorates that their new democratic institutions actually work to defend their interests are often branded as illegitimate by the West.--Publisher description.".
• catalog extent "xv, 168 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Disciplining democracy.".
• catalog identifier "1856498581 (cased)".
• catalog identifier "185649859X (limp)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Disciplining democracy.".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "c2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London ; New York, N.Y. : Zed Books,".
• catalog relation "Disciplining democracy.".
• catalog spatial "Africa Economic policy".
• catalog spatial "Africa.".
• catalog subject "338.96 21".
• catalog subject "Democracy Africa.".
• catalog subject "Economic development.".
• catalog subject "HC800 .A5265 2000".
• catalog tableOfContents "Democratisation and Development Discourse -- Conventional explanations -- Fictitious dichotomies -- A merely 'technical' adjustment -- Power/knowledge and the invention of development -- New World Order, New Development Discourse -- The changing fate of 'democracy' in development -- The end of the Cold War -- The failure of structural adjustment programmes -- Power, hegemony and the good governance discourse -- The Seductiveness of Good Governance -- Alien state intervention, indigenous democratic capitalism -- Liberating civil society -- Empowerment through cost recovery -- Good governance as modernisation theory -- The Democratisation of Poverty -- Democratic theory and contemporary debates -- Maintaining the status quo -- Whose Democracy? -- The economic roots of democratic demands -- Victory for the friends of adjustment -- Economic Liberalisation and Democratic Erosion -- No more 'cruel choices' -- Two irreconcilable constituencies -- 'Kill me now' -- Withering democracy? -- Exclusionary democracies -- The Success of the Good Governance Discourse.".
• catalog title "Disciplining democracy : development discourse and good governance in Africa / Rita Abrahmsen.".
• catalog type "text".