Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries

By M. Grindle. 2004

1,246 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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4. D. Kemp
5. Matt Andrews
6. D. Brinkerhoff
7. J. Owen
8. M. Evans

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1. T. Kelsall
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3. D. Kemp
4. Bo Rothstein
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6. D. Brinkerhoff
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In Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) (2013, neutral): “̳learning organizations‘ (Senge 1990 [2006]), ̳projects as policy experiments‘ (Rondinelli 1993), ̳adaptive versus technical problems‘ (Heifetz 1994), ̳positive deviance‘ (Marsh et al 2004; Pascale, Sternin and Sternin 2010), institutional ̳monocropping‘ versus ̳deliberation‘ (Evans 2004), ̳ex”
• Quality of Government: What You Get (2009, background): “33 Myhrman (2003), Rothstein (1998) and (2007) 34 Grindle (2004) 35 Hall (2003) 36 Shepherd (2000) p.”
• Social licence and mining: A critical perspective (2013, background): “Ensuring that alternative and marginalised voices have an opportunity to meaningfully participate in development decisions speaks to the principle of inclusion, which is essential to any sustainable development and poverty alleviation agenda (Blair, 2000; Craig and Porter, 2006; Grindle, 2004).”
• Public Sector Management Reform in Developing Countries: Perspectives Beyond NPM Orthodoxy (2015, background): “Central to this strand is the literature on good-enough governance (Grindle, 2004, 2007), which opts for feasible and best-fit solutions to core public management problems.”
• The moderating role of governance environment on the relationship between risk allocation and private investment in PPP markets: Evidence from developing countries (2019, background): “This article sees governance in both ways, calling for improvements that touch all aspects of the public sector (e.g., institutional settings, decision making, public service delivery, and civil participation) (Grindle, 2004).”
• Policy transfer in critical perspective (2009, background): “The securing of loans by developing countries from the IMF and elsewhere has become conditional on the introduction of SAPS that are predicated on a Western interpretation of ‘Good Governance’ that also give rise to significant resentment (Grindle 2004).”
• Anti-corruption: the indirect ‘big bang’ approach (2011, neutral): “But as Blomkvist (2001), Grindle (2004), and also Bukovansky (2006) have asserted, much of the advice emanating from works like the ones mentioned above and from organizations like the United Nations Development Program, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on how to curb corruption,…”
• Improving Governance for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: Scenario Forecasting the Next 50 years (2015, background): “A large literature has sought to define and conceptualize governance (e.g. Bevir, 2009; Grindle, 2004; Hyden et al., 2004; Levi-Faur, 2012; Fukuyama, 2013; Weiss, 2000).”