Charles Wharton Kaye-Essien
Biographic Data
| ID | 213003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Wharton Kaye-Essien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles Wharton |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaye-Essien |
| SIGNATURE | KAYE-ESSIEN C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3196-2010 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating the Rapids
This article explores the management adaptation strategies non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) managers employ in order to operate in repressive political environments. It answers the question: how do NGO managers initiate, manage and sustain internal change when the political/regulatory environment changes? Within the past few decades, a surge of government regulatory and funding restrictions has impacted the activities of NGOs across the glob…
The Motivational Basis of Citizen-Led Local Interventions
The role of citizens in public service delivery is widely recognized. What is largely missing however, is a deeper understanding of why citizens initiate certain interventions in response to limited local public services. Drawing ideas from the participation and coproduction literatures as analytical lens and three cases of citizen intervention —road repairs, speed control and road closure—in Ghana as empirical lens, this paper finds evidence tha…
The Socio‐Political Context of Citizen Activism
This paper examines the moderating effects of socio‐political factors on the influence of issue salience and prosocial values on citizen activism in different governance contexts. While the literature on citizen activism has examined the emergence, motivations, and channels of activism, we still lack a broader understanding of how different social (membership of social groups and sense of attachment to local communities) and political (ease of ci…
The co‐governance of basic education
Ensuring equitable local service delivery requires sustained investments that are often beyond the reach of local governments in poor countries. In many developing countries, access to basic education is achieved primarily through the complementary efforts of state, municipal, non‐governmental and international development agencies — what I call the complementary “quartet” of service delivery. While the current literature acknowledges the individ…
Capital city boosterism as policy legitimation
Understanding Absences and Presences of BID Policies
Political transition, policy learning and failures to learn
This paper examines how political transition influences policy learning and change from a developing country perspective. Using the policy learning literature as an organising frame, the paper attempts to answer four related questions: Is political transition associated with any form of policy learning? If so, what is learnt? Who are the learners and in what instances do policy actors fail to learn? To answer these questions, the paper uses mixed…
Uberization' as Neoliberal Governmentality
Using the neo-Foucauldian literature on neoliberal governmentality as conceptual lens, this paper critically examines Uber's influence on the governance of urban transport. It argues that 'uberization' represents a form of neoliberal governmentality in which Uber replaces the state as the arbiter and protector of citizenship. It distils the underlying logics of uberization through four discursive moments of subjectification and subjectivation in …
Leadership, gender and the Arab media
This article examines the factors contributing to the under-representation of women leaders in the Egyptian media. Whilst a plethora of research exist on women in the Arab media in general, very few have so far examined the extent of women’s representation in top media management positions particularly in Egypt. Based on empirical insights from 40 key informant interviews, this article finds that in their quest to become top media managers, Egypt…
Leadership, gender and the Arab media
This article examines the factors contributing to the under-representation of women leaders in the Egyptian media. Whilst a plethora of research exist on women in the Arab media in general, very few have so far examined the extent of women’s representation in top media management positions particularly in Egypt. Based on empirical insights from 40 key informant interviews, this article finds that in their quest to become top media managers, Egypt…
Uberization' as Neoliberal Governmentality
Using the neo-Foucauldian literature on neoliberal governmentality as conceptual lens, this paper critically examines Uber's influence on the governance of urban transport. It argues that 'uberization' represents a form of neoliberal governmentality in which Uber replaces the state as the arbiter and protector of citizenship. It distils the underlying logics of uberization through four discursive moments of subjectification and subjectivation in …
The co‐governance of basic education
Ensuring equitable local service delivery requires sustained investments that are often beyond the reach of local governments in poor countries. In many developing countries, access to basic education is achieved primarily through the complementary efforts of state, municipal, non‐governmental and international development agencies — what I call the complementary “quartet” of service delivery. While the current literature acknowledges the individ…
Leadership, gender and the Arab media
This article examines the factors contributing to the under-representation of women leaders in the Egyptian media. Whilst a plethora of research exist on women in the Arab media in general, very few have so far examined the extent of women’s representation in top media management positions particularly in Egypt. Based on empirical insights from 40 key informant interviews, this article finds that in their quest to become top media managers, Egypt…
Understanding Absences and Presences of BID Policies
Political transition, policy learning and failures to learn
This paper examines how political transition influences policy learning and change from a developing country perspective. Using the policy learning literature as an organising frame, the paper attempts to answer four related questions: Is political transition associated with any form of policy learning? If so, what is learnt? Who are the learners and in what instances do policy actors fail to learn? To answer these questions, the paper uses mixed…
Uberization' as Neoliberal Governmentality
Using the neo-Foucauldian literature on neoliberal governmentality as conceptual lens, this paper critically examines Uber's influence on the governance of urban transport. It argues that 'uberization' represents a form of neoliberal governmentality in which Uber replaces the state as the arbiter and protector of citizenship. It distils the underlying logics of uberization through four discursive moments of subjectification and subjectivation in …
Capital city boosterism as policy legitimation
The co‐governance of basic education
Ensuring equitable local service delivery requires sustained investments that are often beyond the reach of local governments in poor countries. In many developing countries, access to basic education is achieved primarily through the complementary efforts of state, municipal, non‐governmental and international development agencies — what I call the complementary “quartet” of service delivery. While the current literature acknowledges the individ…
Navigating the Rapids
This article explores the management adaptation strategies non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) managers employ in order to operate in repressive political environments. It answers the question: how do NGO managers initiate, manage and sustain internal change when the political/regulatory environment changes? Within the past few decades, a surge of government regulatory and funding restrictions has impacted the activities of NGOs across the glob…
The Motivational Basis of Citizen-Led Local Interventions
The role of citizens in public service delivery is widely recognized. What is largely missing however, is a deeper understanding of why citizens initiate certain interventions in response to limited local public services. Drawing ideas from the participation and coproduction literatures as analytical lens and three cases of citizen intervention —road repairs, speed control and road closure—in Ghana as empirical lens, this paper finds evidence tha…
The Socio‐Political Context of Citizen Activism
This paper examines the moderating effects of socio‐political factors on the influence of issue salience and prosocial values on citizen activism in different governance contexts. While the literature on citizen activism has examined the emergence, motivations, and channels of activism, we still lack a broader understanding of how different social (membership of social groups and sense of attachment to local communities) and political (ease of ci…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Public-Private Partnership Projects (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Perspective (graphical (3 works)