Govern like us: U.S. expectations of poor countries
Informed by years of fieldwork and drawing on practitioner work and academic scholarship in politics, economics, law, and history, this book explains the origins of poor governments in the formation of the modern state system and describes the way they govern. It argues that, surprisingly, the effort to stigmatise and criminalise the governance of the poor is both fruitless and destabilising. The United States requires a more effective foreign policy to engage poor governments and acknowledge h…
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- Full title :Govern like us : U.S. expectations of poor countries / M.A. Thomas.
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Informed by years of fieldwork and drawing on practitioner work and academic scholarship in politics, economics, law, and history, this book explains the origins of poor governments in the formation of the modern state system and describes the way they govern. It argues that, surprisingly, the effort to stigmatise and criminalise the governance of the poor is both fruitless and destabilising. The United States requires a more effective foreign policy to engage poor governments and acknowledge how they govern.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 254 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780231539111, 0231539118
- oclc:ocn908091713
- LC Classification:JF60
- Dewey Decimal:320.9172/4
Table of Contents
Blind spot -- The governance ideal -- Paper empires, paper countries -- Poor countries, poor governments -- Governing cheaply -- The rule of law -- Governance as it is -- A different conversation.
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