David K Leonard
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 118010 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David K Leonard |
| PRENOMES | David K |
| SOBRENOME | Leonard |
| ASSINATURA | LEONARD D K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0419-8320 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 163 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1960 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Working with the grain
Working with the grain: integrating governance and growth in development strategies. By Brian Levy. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. 266pp. Index. £23.00. ISBN 978 0 19936 381 0. Available as e-book. This book makes an important contribution to donor efforts to overcome institutional constraints on the economic development of poor countries through governance reforms. It advances five major hypotheses. First, institutional reform is situa…
Institutional Solutions to the Asymmetric Information Problem in Health and Development Services for the Poor
The world’s poorest pay for professional services and thus are in a “market,” whether the services are provided in the public or private sectors. The associated problems of unequal information are particularly acute in undergoverned countries, where state regulation is weak. We systematically review the evidence on solutions to these problems in a variety of professions. Payments by clients are more likely to have a positive effect on quality if …
Social Contracts, Networks and Security in Tropical Africa Conflict States
In this IDS Bulletin we present fieldwork from articles covering the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Mozambique and Somalia to show that assumptions derived from the classical social contract theorists frequently lead the international community astray as it attempts to rebuild these African states. The historical social contract for most Africans is not between the state and individuals but with communities. When i…
Democracy, Liberty and Montesquieu
Without appropriate institutional checks multiparty democracy can rekindle violent conflicts rather than help to resolve them. The absolutism of ‘imperial presidents’ is at the root of many of Africa's civil wars and the restoration of this institution in post?conflict states will not help them find security for their citizens. Following Montesquieu, I argue that ‘liberty’, in the form of checks on executive power, must accompany or precede multi…
Reconstructing Political Order Among the Somalis
The reconstruction of a larger polity in a violence-torn society such as Somalia requires negotiation of a new social contract between the superordinate body and the local units of governance that have provided citizens some degree of order throughout the conflict. In this article we show that the very different trajectories for state-building in the north and south of the country result in good part from different attention to this generalisatio…
What Does the Somali Experience Teach Us about the Social Contract and the State
Since 1991 the international system has struggled and failed to recreate a state on the territory of the former Somalia. Proto-state systems have been formed by Somalis themselves in Somaliland and Puntland and alternative forms of governance and order exist in other parts of Somalia, but none enjoys international recognition. The polities of Somalia offer important lessons concerning our general theories about social contract, the role that stat…
Does reliance on tax revenue build state capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
Academics and donors have increasingly argued that African states can enhance their general administrative capacity by improving tax revenue collection. Proponents argue that administratively demanding improvements in tax administration may spillover to other areas of public administration by introducing improved practices, necessitating improvements elsewhere and providing data for other government activities. We make the first effort to test th…
Does Patronage Still Drive Politics for the Rural Poor in the Developing World? A Comparative Perspective from the Livestock Sector
Is the analysis of patron-client networks still important to the understanding of developing country politics or has it now been overtaken by a focus on 'social capital'? Drawing on seventeen country studies of the political environment for livestock policy in poor countries, this article concludes that although the nature of patronage has changed significantly, it remains highly relevant to the ways peasant interests are treated. Peasant populat…
The US, France and military roles in the African ‘gap’
Africa Unchained
The Political Economy of Improving Health Care for the Poor in Rural Africa
Both governments and private for-profit markets have been disappointing in meeting the needs of the African poor for health care. NGO services provide a much more attractive alternative for this clientele, despite the fees they charge. They do so because they represent an institutional solution to the ‘imperfect information’ problem in health care. Through simulations based on data from Cameroon, we demonstrate that if fee-charging NGOs replace t…
Africa's Stalled Development
Africa's Stalled Development
Africa's Stalled Development
David K. Leonard and Scott Strauss. Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures. Boulder, CoIo.: Lynne Rienner, 2003. Bibliography. Index. $42.00. Cloth. $17.95. Paper. Africa 's Stalled Development is an accessible and valuable contribution to the literature on Africa's troubled political economy. As the elaboration of a series of lectures first delivered by one of the authors, the book provides a concise summary of key debates …
Professionalism and African Administration
certainly not all) African countries.5
Public Choices and Policy Change
Structural Reform of the Veterinary Profession in Africa and the New Institutional Economics
This article reviews a number of critical issues in the structural reform of animal health services in Africa. Using the New Institutional Economics, it highlights several problems that others concerned with the privatization of this service area have tended to neglect. Most notably it calls attention to: (1) the need to retain a central role for paraprofessionals in the new delivery system; (2) the desirability of competition between the veterin…
African Successes
For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent public administration, Kenya has established several successful rural development programs run by public servants with integrity and professional commit…
African Successes
The Secrets of African Managerial Success
It has become fashionable to despair at the quality of African public sector management) Generally the problem is attributed to the social and political context within which governmental activities must be conducted on the continent [see Hyden 1983; Mons 1981; Price 1975]. There is no doubt that the environment for public management is frequently inhospitable in Africa
The political realities of African management
Budgeting and financial management in Kenya's agricultural ministries
Development Administration in the Eighties
Peasants and Agricultural Change
Reaching the Peasant Farmer
The political realities of African management
African Successes
For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent public administration, Kenya has established several successful rural development programs run by public servants with integrity and professional commit…
Africa's Stalled Development
David K. Leonard and Scott Strauss. Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures. Boulder, CoIo.: Lynne Rienner, 2003. Bibliography. Index. $42.00. Cloth. $17.95. Paper. Africa 's Stalled Development is an accessible and valuable contribution to the literature on Africa's troubled political economy. As the elaboration of a series of lectures first delivered by one of the authors, the book provides a concise summary of key debates …
What Does the Somali Experience Teach Us about the Social Contract and the State
Since 1991 the international system has struggled and failed to recreate a state on the territory of the former Somalia. Proto-state systems have been formed by Somalis themselves in Somaliland and Puntland and alternative forms of governance and order exist in other parts of Somalia, but none enjoys international recognition. The polities of Somalia offer important lessons concerning our general theories about social contract, the role that stat…
Institutional Solutions to the Asymmetric Information Problem in Health and Development Services for the Poor
The world’s poorest pay for professional services and thus are in a “market,” whether the services are provided in the public or private sectors. The associated problems of unequal information are particularly acute in undergoverned countries, where state regulation is weak. We systematically review the evidence on solutions to these problems in a variety of professions. Payments by clients are more likely to have a positive effect on quality if …
Africa's Stalled Development
African Successes
Social Contracts, Networks and Security in Tropical Africa Conflict States
In this IDS Bulletin we present fieldwork from articles covering the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Mozambique and Somalia to show that assumptions derived from the classical social contract theorists frequently lead the international community astray as it attempts to rebuild these African states. The historical social contract for most Africans is not between the state and individuals but with communities. When i…
Does Patronage Still Drive Politics for the Rural Poor in the Developing World? A Comparative Perspective from the Livestock Sector
Is the analysis of patron-client networks still important to the understanding of developing country politics or has it now been overtaken by a focus on 'social capital'? Drawing on seventeen country studies of the political environment for livestock policy in poor countries, this article concludes that although the nature of patronage has changed significantly, it remains highly relevant to the ways peasant interests are treated. Peasant populat…
Development Administration in the Eighties
Does reliance on tax revenue build state capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
Academics and donors have increasingly argued that African states can enhance their general administrative capacity by improving tax revenue collection. Proponents argue that administratively demanding improvements in tax administration may spillover to other areas of public administration by introducing improved practices, necessitating improvements elsewhere and providing data for other government activities. We make the first effort to test th…
Budgeting and financial management in Kenya's agricultural ministries
Africa's Stalled Development
Reconstructing Political Order Among the Somalis
The reconstruction of a larger polity in a violence-torn society such as Somalia requires negotiation of a new social contract between the superordinate body and the local units of governance that have provided citizens some degree of order throughout the conflict. In this article we show that the very different trajectories for state-building in the north and south of the country result in good part from different attention to this generalisatio…
Africa Unchained
Professionalism and African Administration
certainly not all) African countries.5
Structural Reform of the Veterinary Profession in Africa and the New Institutional Economics
This article reviews a number of critical issues in the structural reform of animal health services in Africa. Using the New Institutional Economics, it highlights several problems that others concerned with the privatization of this service area have tended to neglect. Most notably it calls attention to: (1) the need to retain a central role for paraprofessionals in the new delivery system; (2) the desirability of competition between the veterin…
Peasants and Agricultural Change
Mexico and the CaribbeanSouth America
Reaching the Peasant Farmer
Reaching the Peasant Farmer
The evaluation of the impact of publicly supplied services has been an elusive goal of social scientists ever since the beginning of quantitative research. The reason behind encountered difficulties is straightforward: the direct costs of publicly supplied services can be readily measured but the benefits derived from those services cannot normally be directly ascertained. The latter problem is frequently true even where services are priced to th…
Reaching the Peasant Farmer
Reaching the Peasant Farmer
Peasants and Agricultural Change
Development Administration in the Eighties
Budgeting and financial management in Kenya's agricultural ministries
The political realities of African management
The Secrets of African Managerial Success
It has become fashionable to despair at the quality of African public sector management) Generally the problem is attributed to the social and political context within which governmental activities must be conducted on the continent [see Hyden 1983; Mons 1981; Price 1975]. There is no doubt that the environment for public management is frequently inhospitable in Africa
African Successes
For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent public administration, Kenya has established several successful rural development programs run by public servants with integrity and professional commit…
African Successes
Professionalism and African Administration
certainly not all) African countries.5
Public Choices and Policy Change
Structural Reform of the Veterinary Profession in Africa and the New Institutional Economics
This article reviews a number of critical issues in the structural reform of animal health services in Africa. Using the New Institutional Economics, it highlights several problems that others concerned with the privatization of this service area have tended to neglect. Most notably it calls attention to: (1) the need to retain a central role for paraprofessionals in the new delivery system; (2) the desirability of competition between the veterin…
Africa's Stalled Development
Africa's Stalled Development
David K. Leonard and Scott Strauss. Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures. Boulder, CoIo.: Lynne Rienner, 2003. Bibliography. Index. $42.00. Cloth. $17.95. Paper. Africa 's Stalled Development is an accessible and valuable contribution to the literature on Africa's troubled political economy. As the elaboration of a series of lectures first delivered by one of the authors, the book provides a concise summary of key debates …
The Political Economy of Improving Health Care for the Poor in Rural Africa
Both governments and private for-profit markets have been disappointing in meeting the needs of the African poor for health care. NGO services provide a much more attractive alternative for this clientele, despite the fees they charge. They do so because they represent an institutional solution to the ‘imperfect information’ problem in health care. Through simulations based on data from Cameroon, we demonstrate that if fee-charging NGOs replace t…
Africa's Stalled Development
Africa Unchained
The US, France and military roles in the African ‘gap’
Does reliance on tax revenue build state capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
Academics and donors have increasingly argued that African states can enhance their general administrative capacity by improving tax revenue collection. Proponents argue that administratively demanding improvements in tax administration may spillover to other areas of public administration by introducing improved practices, necessitating improvements elsewhere and providing data for other government activities. We make the first effort to test th…
Does Patronage Still Drive Politics for the Rural Poor in the Developing World? A Comparative Perspective from the Livestock Sector
Is the analysis of patron-client networks still important to the understanding of developing country politics or has it now been overtaken by a focus on 'social capital'? Drawing on seventeen country studies of the political environment for livestock policy in poor countries, this article concludes that although the nature of patronage has changed significantly, it remains highly relevant to the ways peasant interests are treated. Peasant populat…
What Does the Somali Experience Teach Us about the Social Contract and the State
Since 1991 the international system has struggled and failed to recreate a state on the territory of the former Somalia. Proto-state systems have been formed by Somalis themselves in Somaliland and Puntland and alternative forms of governance and order exist in other parts of Somalia, but none enjoys international recognition. The polities of Somalia offer important lessons concerning our general theories about social contract, the role that stat…
Institutional Solutions to the Asymmetric Information Problem in Health and Development Services for the Poor
The world’s poorest pay for professional services and thus are in a “market,” whether the services are provided in the public or private sectors. The associated problems of unequal information are particularly acute in undergoverned countries, where state regulation is weak. We systematically review the evidence on solutions to these problems in a variety of professions. Payments by clients are more likely to have a positive effect on quality if …
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