Audun Solli
Biographic Data
| ID | 4248278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Audun Solli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Audun |
| FAMILY NAME | Solli |
| SIGNATURE | SOLLI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad del Sol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Training in Vain? Bottlenecks in Deploying Civilians for UN Peacekeeping
UN peacekeeping missions suffer from cumbersome recruitment processes, high vacancy rates and a shortage of civilian staff. This article explores the bottlenecks hampering the recruitment and deployment of trained personnel, especially civilians. Paradoxically, an increased number of trained personnel has not translated into higher deployment rates. Individual factors and structural bottlenecks together accounted for half of the non-deployments. …
From Good Governance to Development? A Critical Perspective on the Case of Norway’s Oil for Development
Good governance is a key buzzword in development aid discourse. It is a catch‐all term denoting capacity building, poverty reduction and democracy, where the latter two elements function as legitimising factors. This paper discusses the Norwegian aid programme Oil for Development’s understanding of good governance. Good governance discourse rests on a vision of African states as ‘failed’, and explains the lack of development as a product of poor …
(Re)Conceptualizing the Political Economy of the African State Form
This article is a theoretical contribution to the debate on African statehood. We use the Angolan state as a 'sounding board' for a mainstream neo-Weberian perspective and an oppositional historicist approach. We argue that the neo-Weberians inadequately explain the genealogy of state power and the historicists fail to provide a functionalist account of the state's relation to society. Neo-Weberians capture some of the basic facts related to a 's…
From Good Governance to Development? A Critical Perspective on the Case of Norway’s Oil for Development
Good governance is a key buzzword in development aid discourse. It is a catch‐all term denoting capacity building, poverty reduction and democracy, where the latter two elements function as legitimising factors. This paper discusses the Norwegian aid programme Oil for Development’s understanding of good governance. Good governance discourse rests on a vision of African states as ‘failed’, and explains the lack of development as a product of poor …
(Re)Conceptualizing the Political Economy of the African State Form
This article is a theoretical contribution to the debate on African statehood. We use the Angolan state as a 'sounding board' for a mainstream neo-Weberian perspective and an oppositional historicist approach. We argue that the neo-Weberians inadequately explain the genealogy of state power and the historicists fail to provide a functionalist account of the state's relation to society. Neo-Weberians capture some of the basic facts related to a 's…
Training in Vain? Bottlenecks in Deploying Civilians for UN Peacekeeping
UN peacekeeping missions suffer from cumbersome recruitment processes, high vacancy rates and a shortage of civilian staff. This article explores the bottlenecks hampering the recruitment and deployment of trained personnel, especially civilians. Paradoxically, an increased number of trained personnel has not translated into higher deployment rates. Individual factors and structural bottlenecks together accounted for half of the non-deployments. …
From Good Governance to Development? A Critical Perspective on the Case of Norway’s Oil for Development
Good governance is a key buzzword in development aid discourse. It is a catch‐all term denoting capacity building, poverty reduction and democracy, where the latter two elements function as legitimising factors. This paper discusses the Norwegian aid programme Oil for Development’s understanding of good governance. Good governance discourse rests on a vision of African states as ‘failed’, and explains the lack of development as a product of poor …
(Re)Conceptualizing the Political Economy of the African State Form
This article is a theoretical contribution to the debate on African statehood. We use the Angolan state as a 'sounding board' for a mainstream neo-Weberian perspective and an oppositional historicist approach. We argue that the neo-Weberians inadequately explain the genealogy of state power and the historicists fail to provide a functionalist account of the state's relation to society. Neo-Weberians capture some of the basic facts related to a 's…
Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works) · Accounting (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · CLARITY (1 work)