David Hirschmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 953624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Hirschmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirschmann |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCHMANN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Framing a fiscal/cultural micro-encounter
This article focuses on the performance of the calypso song ‘VAT on You’, as a response to the introduction into Dominica of the value added tax (VAT). The article applies a set of concepts to frame and so enhance our understanding of the event in terms of global history. Both calypso and VAT have extended histories and this performance represents an unusual meeting of earlier and current forces of globalisation. The conclusion assesses the helpf…
Rendering’ Ethnicity in the Mauritius National Assembly
The focus of this paper is a debate in the Mauritius National Assembly concerning a proposed autonomous revenue authority. The purpose is to apply and build on a selection of a few key contributions to the literature on ‘representation’, more so those focused on rendering. Works of Pitkin (1967, The Concept of Representation, University of California Press: Berkeley), Hall (1997, The Work of Representation, Sage and The Open University: London, p…
Beyond hybridity
Journal Article Beyond hybridity: Culture and ethnicity in the Mauritius Revenue Authority Get access David Hirschmann David Hirschmann * *David Hirschmann ([email protected]) is Professor and Director of the International Development Program in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. The author expresses appreciation to the many Mauritians who were good enough to share their perspectives with him; the off…
Keeping 'the last' in mind
Many readers will be familiar with the work of Robert Chambers, including his six 'biases' of the development professional--namely spatial, project, person, seasonal, diplomatic, and professional--and with his suggestions for overcoming them. Many will also be familiar with the challenge of putting his advice into practice, notably on short-term assignments. The question asked here is whether the consultant can do anything constructive about thos…
Thermometer or sauna
This article presents a case study of performance measurement in the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) democracy and governance program. Its purpose is to illustrate the juxtaposition (and sometimes contradiction) between the high standards of causal logic and accuracy required of performance measurement, and the untidiness involved in the ‘politics of democratization’. Based on USAID experiences in numerous countries…
Implementing an indicator
This article focuses on performance measurement in the democracy and governance (DG) programme of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in its Zimbabwe mission. The article tells the story of one qualitative indicator used for measuring progress, namely the 'Advocacy Index'. It traces the history of this indicator, from rationale and concept through the early stages of implementation. The article discusses the problems o…
A Reinvention Laboratory with a Difference
Customer Service” in the United States Agency for International Development
The article assesses the experience of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Bangladesh (USAID/B) in its customer-focused design of a democracy program. It applies to the initiative criticisms of the principles of customer orientation in the public sector, most notably that it marginalizes citizenship, underestimates complexity, and leads to policy incoherence. The article observes that USAID/B effectively managed to sustain an effort …
Development Management versus Third World Bureaucracies
This article investigates the impacts on, and responses of, third world bureaucracies (more specifically those operating in the poorer parts of the third world), in the context of the changing demands of development management. These include efforts at debureaucratization, by calling for a radically different kind of civil service; at localization and training; at circumvention, through relying on semi-autonomous public enterprises; at re-orienta…
Civil society in South Africa
Democracy, gender and US foreign assistance
Starring Kamuzu
Women and political participation in Africa
Books reviewed
Jacklyn Cock and Laurie Nathan (eds) War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa (David Philip: Cape Town & Johannesburg), 361 + xiv pp., R28.80 (pbk), 1989, 0 86486 115 X Sheikh R. Ali, Southern Africa: An American Enigma (Praeger: New York, Westport and London, 1987), 199pp., plus appendices) Lynette Dreyer The Modern African Elite of South Africa (London: Macmillan, 1989), xii + 186pp. Peter F. Alexander, William Plomer. A Biography (O…
Of Monsters and Devils, Analyses and Alternatives
Journal Article OF MONSTERS AND DEVILS, ANALYSES AND ALTERNATIVES: CHANGING BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN PERCEPTIONS OF CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM Get access DAVID HIRSCHMANN DAVID HIRSCHMANN teaches in the International Development Program, School of International Service at The American UniversityWashington DC. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 356, July 1990, Pages 341–369, https://…
The Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
Black politics in South Africa changed dramatically after 1976. It spread far and fast, with black organisations multiplying at all kinds of levels. The African National Congress (A.N.C.) returned and the United Democratic Front (U.D.F.) emerged. The trade unions strengthened considerably and black youths demonstrated their power. Ideologies changed and evolved. Yet at the same time as the movement broadened and deepened its hold on black people,…
Early Post-Colonial Bureaucracy as History
David Hirschmann, Early Post-Colonial Bureaucracy as History: The Case of the Lesotho Central Planning and Development Office, 1965-1975, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1987), pp. 455-470
Sound’ of a New Bureaucracy
Food production and income generation in a matrilineal society
This article sets out to describe the various food-producing and income generating patterns found in rural households in the Zomba district of Malawi. The study focuses on women but it necessarily links women closely to their own households and the wider family groupings, characterised by matrilineal inheritance and matrilocal marriage, of which they are part. ' Over 90 per cent of Malawians live in the rural areas and the country's people are ov…
Development or Underdevelopment Administration? A Further 'Deadlock
Changes in Lesotho's Policy Towards South Africa
Journal Article CHANGES IN LESOTHO'S POLICY TOWARDS SOUTH AFRICA Get access DAVID HIRSCHMANN DAVID HIRSCHMANN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 311, April 1979, Pages 177–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097085 Published: 01 April 1979
Administration of Planning in Lesotho
Southern Africa
In a speech to the South African Senate on 23 October Prime Minister Vorster declared that the situation in Southern Africa had reached a point at which a choice had to be made between peaceful negotiation on the one hand, or escalating strife on the other. He offered Africa 'the way of peace'. Within three days President Kaunda responded favourably. In a graduation day speech at the University of Zambia, he described Vorster's overture as 'the v…
Pressures on Apartheid
IN South Africa today there exist pressures for change, superficial and po tentially far-reaching, complementary and contradictory, deriving from a variety of sources: economic, political, Black, White, foreign and domestic. The dynamics of the situation suggest an image of a series of cogs whose vary ing and opposing motions and alternate meshing and disengagement produce erratic and undirected movement. The task of assessing the significance an…
Peter Caws, The Philosophy of Science
Food production and income generation in a matrilineal society
This article sets out to describe the various food-producing and income generating patterns found in rural households in the Zomba district of Malawi. The study focuses on women but it necessarily links women closely to their own households and the wider family groupings, characterised by matrilineal inheritance and matrilocal marriage, of which they are part. ' Over 90 per cent of Malawians live in the rural areas and the country's people are ov…
Women and political participation in Africa
The Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
Black politics in South Africa changed dramatically after 1976. It spread far and fast, with black organisations multiplying at all kinds of levels. The African National Congress (A.N.C.) returned and the United Democratic Front (U.D.F.) emerged. The trade unions strengthened considerably and black youths demonstrated their power. Ideologies changed and evolved. Yet at the same time as the movement broadened and deepened its hold on black people,…
Thermometer or sauna
This article presents a case study of performance measurement in the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) democracy and governance program. Its purpose is to illustrate the juxtaposition (and sometimes contradiction) between the high standards of causal logic and accuracy required of performance measurement, and the untidiness involved in the ‘politics of democratization’. Based on USAID experiences in numerous countries…
Development Management versus Third World Bureaucracies
This article investigates the impacts on, and responses of, third world bureaucracies (more specifically those operating in the poorer parts of the third world), in the context of the changing demands of development management. These include efforts at debureaucratization, by calling for a radically different kind of civil service; at localization and training; at circumvention, through relying on semi-autonomous public enterprises; at re-orienta…
Early Post-Colonial Bureaucracy as History
David Hirschmann, Early Post-Colonial Bureaucracy as History: The Case of the Lesotho Central Planning and Development Office, 1965-1975, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1987), pp. 455-470
Rendering’ Ethnicity in the Mauritius National Assembly
The focus of this paper is a debate in the Mauritius National Assembly concerning a proposed autonomous revenue authority. The purpose is to apply and build on a selection of a few key contributions to the literature on ‘representation’, more so those focused on rendering. Works of Pitkin (1967, The Concept of Representation, University of California Press: Berkeley), Hall (1997, The Work of Representation, Sage and The Open University: London, p…
Customer Service” in the United States Agency for International Development
The article assesses the experience of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Bangladesh (USAID/B) in its customer-focused design of a democracy program. It applies to the initiative criticisms of the principles of customer orientation in the public sector, most notably that it marginalizes citizenship, underestimates complexity, and leads to policy incoherence. The article observes that USAID/B effectively managed to sustain an effort …
Civil society in South Africa
Of Monsters and Devils, Analyses and Alternatives
Journal Article OF MONSTERS AND DEVILS, ANALYSES AND ALTERNATIVES: CHANGING BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN PERCEPTIONS OF CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM Get access DAVID HIRSCHMANN DAVID HIRSCHMANN teaches in the International Development Program, School of International Service at The American UniversityWashington DC. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 356, July 1990, Pages 341–369, https://…
Southern Africa
In a speech to the South African Senate on 23 October Prime Minister Vorster declared that the situation in Southern Africa had reached a point at which a choice had to be made between peaceful negotiation on the one hand, or escalating strife on the other. He offered Africa 'the way of peace'. Within three days President Kaunda responded favourably. In a graduation day speech at the University of Zambia, he described Vorster's overture as 'the v…
Implementing an indicator
This article focuses on performance measurement in the democracy and governance (DG) programme of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in its Zimbabwe mission. The article tells the story of one qualitative indicator used for measuring progress, namely the 'Advocacy Index'. It traces the history of this indicator, from rationale and concept through the early stages of implementation. The article discusses the problems o…
Development or Underdevelopment Administration? A Further 'Deadlock
Changes in Lesotho's Policy Towards South Africa
Journal Article CHANGES IN LESOTHO'S POLICY TOWARDS SOUTH AFRICA Get access DAVID HIRSCHMANN DAVID HIRSCHMANN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 311, April 1979, Pages 177–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097085 Published: 01 April 1979
Pressures on Apartheid
IN South Africa today there exist pressures for change, superficial and po tentially far-reaching, complementary and contradictory, deriving from a variety of sources: economic, political, Black, White, foreign and domestic. The dynamics of the situation suggest an image of a series of cogs whose vary ing and opposing motions and alternate meshing and disengagement produce erratic and undirected movement. The task of assessing the significance an…
Peter Caws, The Philosophy of Science
Pressures on Apartheid
IN South Africa today there exist pressures for change, superficial and po tentially far-reaching, complementary and contradictory, deriving from a variety of sources: economic, political, Black, White, foreign and domestic. The dynamics of the situation suggest an image of a series of cogs whose vary ing and opposing motions and alternate meshing and disengagement produce erratic and undirected movement. The task of assessing the significance an…
Southern Africa
In a speech to the South African Senate on 23 October Prime Minister Vorster declared that the situation in Southern Africa had reached a point at which a choice had to be made between peaceful negotiation on the one hand, or escalating strife on the other. He offered Africa 'the way of peace'. Within three days President Kaunda responded favourably. In a graduation day speech at the University of Zambia, he described Vorster's overture as 'the v…
Administration of Planning in Lesotho
Changes in Lesotho's Policy Towards South Africa
Journal Article CHANGES IN LESOTHO'S POLICY TOWARDS SOUTH AFRICA Get access DAVID HIRSCHMANN DAVID HIRSCHMANN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 311, April 1979, Pages 177–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097085 Published: 01 April 1979
Development or Underdevelopment Administration? A Further 'Deadlock
Food production and income generation in a matrilineal society
This article sets out to describe the various food-producing and income generating patterns found in rural households in the Zomba district of Malawi. The study focuses on women but it necessarily links women closely to their own households and the wider family groupings, characterised by matrilineal inheritance and matrilocal marriage, of which they are part. ' Over 90 per cent of Malawians live in the rural areas and the country's people are ov…
Sound’ of a New Bureaucracy
Early Post-Colonial Bureaucracy as History
David Hirschmann, Early Post-Colonial Bureaucracy as History: The Case of the Lesotho Central Planning and Development Office, 1965-1975, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1987), pp. 455-470
Books reviewed
Jacklyn Cock and Laurie Nathan (eds) War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa (David Philip: Cape Town & Johannesburg), 361 + xiv pp., R28.80 (pbk), 1989, 0 86486 115 X Sheikh R. Ali, Southern Africa: An American Enigma (Praeger: New York, Westport and London, 1987), 199pp., plus appendices) Lynette Dreyer The Modern African Elite of South Africa (London: Macmillan, 1989), xii + 186pp. Peter F. Alexander, William Plomer. A Biography (O…
Of Monsters and Devils, Analyses and Alternatives
Journal Article OF MONSTERS AND DEVILS, ANALYSES AND ALTERNATIVES: CHANGING BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN PERCEPTIONS OF CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM Get access DAVID HIRSCHMANN DAVID HIRSCHMANN teaches in the International Development Program, School of International Service at The American UniversityWashington DC. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 356, July 1990, Pages 341–369, https://…
The Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
Black politics in South Africa changed dramatically after 1976. It spread far and fast, with black organisations multiplying at all kinds of levels. The African National Congress (A.N.C.) returned and the United Democratic Front (U.D.F.) emerged. The trade unions strengthened considerably and black youths demonstrated their power. Ideologies changed and evolved. Yet at the same time as the movement broadened and deepened its hold on black people,…
Women and political participation in Africa
Democracy, gender and US foreign assistance
Starring Kamuzu
Civil society in South Africa
Customer Service” in the United States Agency for International Development
The article assesses the experience of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Bangladesh (USAID/B) in its customer-focused design of a democracy program. It applies to the initiative criticisms of the principles of customer orientation in the public sector, most notably that it marginalizes citizenship, underestimates complexity, and leads to policy incoherence. The article observes that USAID/B effectively managed to sustain an effort …
Development Management versus Third World Bureaucracies
This article investigates the impacts on, and responses of, third world bureaucracies (more specifically those operating in the poorer parts of the third world), in the context of the changing demands of development management. These include efforts at debureaucratization, by calling for a radically different kind of civil service; at localization and training; at circumvention, through relying on semi-autonomous public enterprises; at re-orienta…
A Reinvention Laboratory with a Difference
Thermometer or sauna
This article presents a case study of performance measurement in the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) democracy and governance program. Its purpose is to illustrate the juxtaposition (and sometimes contradiction) between the high standards of causal logic and accuracy required of performance measurement, and the untidiness involved in the ‘politics of democratization’. Based on USAID experiences in numerous countries…
Implementing an indicator
This article focuses on performance measurement in the democracy and governance (DG) programme of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in its Zimbabwe mission. The article tells the story of one qualitative indicator used for measuring progress, namely the 'Advocacy Index'. It traces the history of this indicator, from rationale and concept through the early stages of implementation. The article discusses the problems o…
Keeping 'the last' in mind
Many readers will be familiar with the work of Robert Chambers, including his six 'biases' of the development professional--namely spatial, project, person, seasonal, diplomatic, and professional--and with his suggestions for overcoming them. Many will also be familiar with the challenge of putting his advice into practice, notably on short-term assignments. The question asked here is whether the consultant can do anything constructive about thos…
Beyond hybridity
Journal Article Beyond hybridity: Culture and ethnicity in the Mauritius Revenue Authority Get access David Hirschmann David Hirschmann * *David Hirschmann ([email protected]) is Professor and Director of the International Development Program in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. The author expresses appreciation to the many Mauritians who were good enough to share their perspectives with him; the off…
Rendering’ Ethnicity in the Mauritius National Assembly
The focus of this paper is a debate in the Mauritius National Assembly concerning a proposed autonomous revenue authority. The purpose is to apply and build on a selection of a few key contributions to the literature on ‘representation’, more so those focused on rendering. Works of Pitkin (1967, The Concept of Representation, University of California Press: Berkeley), Hall (1997, The Work of Representation, Sage and The Open University: London, p…
Framing a fiscal/cultural micro-encounter
This article focuses on the performance of the calypso song ‘VAT on You’, as a response to the introduction into Dominica of the value added tax (VAT). The article applies a set of concepts to frame and so enhance our understanding of the event in terms of global history. Both calypso and VAT have extended histories and this performance represents an unusual meeting of earlier and current forces of globalisation. The conclusion assesses the helpf…
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