How change happens

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Drawing on the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world's largest social justice INGOs, this work tests ideas on 'how change happens' and sets out the latest thinking on how citizens and others can drive progressive change.

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Full title :How change happens / Duncan Green.

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Publication Date:2016.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780191833236, 0191833231, 0191088358, 9780191088353, 0198785399, 9780198785392, 9780198825166, 0198825161
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198785392.001.0001
oclc:ocn980600688
LC Classification:GN358
Dewey Decimal:303.4

Cover ; How Change Happens; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Part I: A Power and Systems Approach; How we think/feel/work: 4 steps to help us dance with the system; The questions we ask (and keep asking); 1: Systems Thinking Changes Everything; Systems, economics, and development; Crises as critical junctures; The world is complex-so what?; Be flexible:; Seek fast and ongoing feedback:; Success is often accidental:; Undertake multiple parallel experiments:; Learn by doing (and failing):; Identify and discuss your rules of thumb.

Convene and broker relationships:Positive deviance; Conclusion; Further Reading; Further Viewing; 2: Power Lies at the Heart of Change; No such thing as a power vacuum; Power and change; Is power a zero sum game?; Using power analysis; Alliances:; Approach:; Events:; Why change doesnt́ happen; Institutions:; Ideas:; Interests:; Conclusion; Further Reading; Further Surfing; 3: Shifts in Social Norms Often Underpin Change; How norms evolve; Norms, gender, and power; Norm changes and the state; Norms, culture, and faith; Are norms neutral?; Female genital mutilation; Conclusion; Further Reading.

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activists Business and Management campaigners change Change Agents Changement (Philosophie) Development economics and emerging econ… Economics Economics, finance, business and manage… Lobbyists Management and management techniques NGOs officials Political change Political science and theory Politics and government PUBLIC SERVICES Social change SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General Society and social sciences Society and…