Making Sense of Governance

by Goran Hyden, Julius Court, Kenneth Mease

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Although governance has been the focus of a considerable body of literature on democratic transitions and consolidation, data to support the claim that the concept is a useful one has been lacking. Now however, Making Sense of Governance clearly shows the utility of research on governance. Presenting empirical evidence from sixteen developing countries. The authors focus on six arenas: civil, political, and economic society and the executive, bureaucracy, and judiciary. Demonstrating conclusively for the first time that perceptions of governance by local stakeholders are realistic indicators of the nature and quality of a political regime, they also reveal the dynamic nature of governance and to what extent it correlates with socioeconomic variables. This comprehensive study is based on interviews in Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru, Philoppines, Russia, Tanzania, Thailand, and Togo.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Goran Hyden

Goran Hyden is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. His many publications include, most recently, Developmetn and Democracy: What Have We Learned and How? and Media and Democracy in Africa. He is coeditor (with Michael Bratton) of the seminal Governance and Politics in Africa.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Julius Court

Julius Court is research officer at the Overseas Development Institute, London. He is coauthor of Governing Globalization: New Roles and Functions for the UN and Bretton Woods Institutions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kenneth Mease

Kenneth Mease is in the research faculty of the Department of Economics as the University of Florida. He served for two years as senior adviser to the UN University's World Governance Assessment project.