Overview
- Offers a fresh perspective on policymaking, implementation and policy effects in hybrid regimes
- Examines how NGOs respond to malfunctioning policies
- Provides in-depth comparative case studies on criminal justice and social protection policies in post-Soviet Armenia and Georgia
Part of the book series: International Series on Public Policy (ISPP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- institutions
- governance
- institutional gaps
- post-Soviet space
- NGOs
- decoupling
- methodology
- institutional voids
- analytical framework
- historical institutionalists
- institutional weakness
- non-democratic regimes
- policy capacity
- informal institutions
- UNM government
- implementation gap
- social protection
- ultraliberal economic policy
- informal care
- donors
About this book
Steven Rathgeb Smith, Executive Director, American Political Science Association, and Georgetown University, USA
This book provides a novel analytical perspective on policymaking, policy effects and NGOs in hybrid regimes. It examines the sources and patterns of gaps between formal rules, political practice and longer term effects, and explores how NGOs navigate the tension-laden environments that gaps represent. The book shows how weak institutionsand malfunctioning policies turn NGOs into ambivalent actors. Empirically, it covers criminal justice and social protection policies in post-Soviet Georgia and Armenia. The findings from the in-depth case studies are then extended by a discussion of gaps in hybrid regimes as diverse as Malaysia, Kenya and Russia. The book’s approach and findings will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners interested in NGOs, institutional theory and public policy.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Weak Institutions and the Governance Dilemma
Book Subtitle: Gaps as Traps
Authors: Mariella Falkenhain
Series Title: International Series on Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39742-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39741-8Published: 08 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39744-9Published: 08 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39742-5Published: 07 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-7301
Series E-ISSN: 2524-731X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 250
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government, Globalization, Legislative and Executive Politics, Democracy, Comparative Politics