Effective Governance Under Anarchy - Softcover

Börzel, Tanja A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 131663504X ISBN 13: 9781316635049

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Policy makers and academics alike have mistakenly promoted an agenda which takes well-governed democratic and consolidated 'Weberian' states as the model for the world and the goal of development programs. Whilst Western industrial democracies are the exception, areas of limited statehood where state institutions are weak and ineffective, are everywhere, and, this books argues, can still be well-governed. Three factors explain effective governance in areas of limited statehood: Fair and transparent institutions 'fit for purpose,' legitimate governors accepted by the people, and social trust among the citizens. Effective and legitimate governance in the absence of a functioning state is not only provided by international organizations, foreign aid agencies, and non-governmental organizations but also by multi-national companies, rebel groups and other violent non-state actors, 'traditional' as well as religious leaders, and community-based organizations. Börzel and Risse base their argument on empirical findings from over a decade of research covering Latin America, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.

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About the Authors

Tanja A. Börzel is professor of political science and holds the chair for European Integration at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of Why Noncompliance: The Politics of Law in the European Union (Cornell, 2020) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood (2018).

Thomas Risse holds the chair of international relations at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood (2018) and of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism (2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 131663504X
• ISBN 13: 9781316635049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380