NGOs in the politics of development

Projects as policy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6050410
AutoresRoger Charlton (Glasgow Caledonian University), Roy May (Coventry University), Tony Cleobury (Coventry University)
Año1995
Volumen1
Número1
Páginas19-42
Fecha de publicación1995-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaContemporary Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1356-9775 • E-ISSN: 1469-3631
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569779508449867
OpenAlexW2014948988
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas14

O ver the past decade or so, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly widely recognized as a conceptually distinct, but empirically imprecise, organizational category with clear-cut developmental salience. This is based on a solid history of achievements accomplished across all regions of the South. Specifically, it was in the late 1980s 'that the development community at large, both individual experts and financial agencies, discovered NGOs as a new institutional form of development resource, although many had been developmentally active for years, and some for decades. However, since this 'discovery', the NGO sector has become as dynamic as it has become fashionable. In particular, the recent expansion of the nongovernmental organizational sector across what, until recently, would have been termed the third world has been so rapid that academic analysis has had to struggle to keep up with a subject that proved to be a constantly moving target. Rather like astronomers observing an expanding universe, NGO-analysts have found that they were dealing with a subject whose diversity and complexity was constantly reinforced by empirical analysis. Although it would be an exaggeration to suggest that NGO-watchers have been totally overwhelmed by the dynamism of their subject matter, it is rather painfully obvious that the academic community, having only belatedly 'discovered' NGOs to be 'major actors on the international development scene', has not, as yet, been able fully to evaluate either the sector's present developmental impact or its likely future developmental potential

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