Brian Dill
Biographic Data
| ID | 186198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Dill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Dill |
| SIGNATURE | DILL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8877-6177 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reparative Development
Development has functioned as a powerful apparatus for ordering the world—shaping how problems are defined, whose knowledge counts, and what futures are possible. Development sociology has been central to exposing the harms embedded in this project, from dependency and unequal exchange to financialization, dispossession, and epistemic domination. Yet the field has been more explicit about diagnosing harm than theorizing its reversal. This article…
How Institutional Layering Shapes Collaborative Governance
Collaborative governance arrangements have become an important means by which a wide range of complex collective action problems are solved. Despite the importance assigned by many scholars and policy makers to the role of collaboration, the matter of how these new institutions emerge and take form has not received the consideration it warrants. In the prevailing view, institutional innovations emerge when state actors are confronted with complex…
Negotiating statist neoliberalism
This article explores the reproduction of Egypt’s post-revolutionary political economy under the military regime. Through an examination of tax and fiscal policy, the authors argue that a strategic wedding of seemingly contradictory state types allows the current regime to create a hybrid they call ‘statist neoliberalism’. The article argues that this hybrid form is not accidental, but is an intentional project that allows the state to sustain ne…
Fixing the African State
Community-based development' (CBD) or'community-driven development' (CDD) has been the predominant approach to international development in recent years. Drawing on fieldwork and first-hand experience
Life on the Ground
Voluntary associations have a long and dynamic history in Africa. Prior to the imposition of colonial rule, a variety of ascriptive and functional groups were common among the continent’s myriad societies. Participation in the former was not a choice but rather based on one’s age and sex. Groups falling in the latter category were meant to ensure the accomplishment of traditional social objectives, such as the practice of warfare, the production …
Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Norms of Participation in Tanzania
The "institutional turn" in contemporary development theory has emphasized the importance of facilitating the emergence of institutions that will improve citizens' abilities to make choices. More important, it has suggested that the effectiveness of these institutions depends upon their ability to "work with the grain" of the local sociocultural environment. This article argues that community-based organizations (CBOs), as one prominent embodimen…
The Paradoxes of Community-based Participation in Dar es Salaam
The current discourse and practice of international development rest on the assumption that community-based participation is an essential component of efforts to facilitate change across the global South. Such participation is thought not only to ensure efficiency and sustainability, but also to accelerate broader structural transformation by empowering individuals to exercise agency in relation to development. This article seeks to contribute to…
Ethics-Related Technology Policies in Schools
Educators often face ethical and legal issues with the use of information and communication technology (ICT), especially when assigning digital content to their students. Institutional policies regarding the boundaries of acceptable ICT use can help educators deal with these issues. In this article, the authors apply neo-institutional theory to the diffusion of institutional policies on the ethics of ICT use. To evaluate this conceptual analysis,…
The Paradoxes of Community-based Participation in Dar es Salaam
The current discourse and practice of international development rest on the assumption that community-based participation is an essential component of efforts to facilitate change across the global South. Such participation is thought not only to ensure efficiency and sustainability, but also to accelerate broader structural transformation by empowering individuals to exercise agency in relation to development. This article seeks to contribute to…
Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Norms of Participation in Tanzania
The "institutional turn" in contemporary development theory has emphasized the importance of facilitating the emergence of institutions that will improve citizens' abilities to make choices. More important, it has suggested that the effectiveness of these institutions depends upon their ability to "work with the grain" of the local sociocultural environment. This article argues that community-based organizations (CBOs), as one prominent embodimen…
Negotiating statist neoliberalism
This article explores the reproduction of Egypt’s post-revolutionary political economy under the military regime. Through an examination of tax and fiscal policy, the authors argue that a strategic wedding of seemingly contradictory state types allows the current regime to create a hybrid they call ‘statist neoliberalism’. The article argues that this hybrid form is not accidental, but is an intentional project that allows the state to sustain ne…
How Institutional Layering Shapes Collaborative Governance
Collaborative governance arrangements have become an important means by which a wide range of complex collective action problems are solved. Despite the importance assigned by many scholars and policy makers to the role of collaboration, the matter of how these new institutions emerge and take form has not received the consideration it warrants. In the prevailing view, institutional innovations emerge when state actors are confronted with complex…
Ethics-Related Technology Policies in Schools
Educators often face ethical and legal issues with the use of information and communication technology (ICT), especially when assigning digital content to their students. Institutional policies regarding the boundaries of acceptable ICT use can help educators deal with these issues. In this article, the authors apply neo-institutional theory to the diffusion of institutional policies on the ethics of ICT use. To evaluate this conceptual analysis,…
The Paradoxes of Community-based Participation in Dar es Salaam
The current discourse and practice of international development rest on the assumption that community-based participation is an essential component of efforts to facilitate change across the global South. Such participation is thought not only to ensure efficiency and sustainability, but also to accelerate broader structural transformation by empowering individuals to exercise agency in relation to development. This article seeks to contribute to…
Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Norms of Participation in Tanzania
The "institutional turn" in contemporary development theory has emphasized the importance of facilitating the emergence of institutions that will improve citizens' abilities to make choices. More important, it has suggested that the effectiveness of these institutions depends upon their ability to "work with the grain" of the local sociocultural environment. This article argues that community-based organizations (CBOs), as one prominent embodimen…
Fixing the African State
Community-based development' (CBD) or'community-driven development' (CDD) has been the predominant approach to international development in recent years. Drawing on fieldwork and first-hand experience
Life on the Ground
Voluntary associations have a long and dynamic history in Africa. Prior to the imposition of colonial rule, a variety of ascriptive and functional groups were common among the continent’s myriad societies. Participation in the former was not a choice but rather based on one’s age and sex. Groups falling in the latter category were meant to ensure the accomplishment of traditional social objectives, such as the practice of warfare, the production …
Negotiating statist neoliberalism
This article explores the reproduction of Egypt’s post-revolutionary political economy under the military regime. Through an examination of tax and fiscal policy, the authors argue that a strategic wedding of seemingly contradictory state types allows the current regime to create a hybrid they call ‘statist neoliberalism’. The article argues that this hybrid form is not accidental, but is an intentional project that allows the state to sustain ne…
How Institutional Layering Shapes Collaborative Governance
Collaborative governance arrangements have become an important means by which a wide range of complex collective action problems are solved. Despite the importance assigned by many scholars and policy makers to the role of collaboration, the matter of how these new institutions emerge and take form has not received the consideration it warrants. In the prevailing view, institutional innovations emerge when state actors are confronted with complex…
Reparative Development
Development has functioned as a powerful apparatus for ordering the world—shaping how problems are defined, whose knowledge counts, and what futures are possible. Development sociology has been central to exposing the harms embedded in this project, from dependency and unequal exchange to financialization, dispossession, and epistemic domination. Yet the field has been more explicit about diagnosing harm than theorizing its reversal. This article…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · International Development and Aid (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works)