Daniel E Esser
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 366047 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniel E Esser |
| PRENOMES | Daniel E |
| SOBRENOME | Esser |
| ASSINATURA | ESSER D E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0155-821X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Why do bureaucrats want mandatory training? A conjoint mixed‐methods analysis of individual learning preferences in German, Norwegian, and South Korean donor agencies
Development Expertise
We respond to the lack of measurable conceptualisations of expertise in development agencies by investigating its focus and appreciation in two national aid administrations as a function of knowledge and experience. We apply this definition of expertise to qualitative data from interviews with 58 randomly selected officials at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Coope…
How Do Foreign Aid Agencies Learn? A Comparative Analysis of Organisational Learning Determinants in National Donor Bureaucracies
We distil and validate a new theory of organisational learning (OL) to understand OL in foreign aid agencies. Reviewing existing scholarship on OL in the public sector, we devise a theorectical framework consisting of three variables that connect interacting dimensions co-determining the organisation-specific intensity of OL: (1) individual knowledge acquisition, (2) social practices and (3) organisational political embeddedness. To validate our …
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness
How are accountability and organisational learning related? A study of German bilateral development cooperation
We analyse qualitative data collected from employees at Germany’s two main international development organisations, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) Development Bank, to study how upward accountability and organisational learning interact in the world’s second largest foreign aid system. Goffman’s ‘staging’ heuristic is applied to unpack social practices in these two organisati…
Spatial Dynamics of Racialized Income Inequality in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area
This article presents findings of an analysis of the association between changes in neighborhoods’ racial composition and income inequality in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. We cluster U.S. Census data at the ward and district levels and find that the connection between race and income inequality appears potent in Washington, DC. Racially more homogeneous wards have lower income inequalities than those that are racially heterogeneous. We …
Globalization Narratives and Industrial Policy
Competing narratives of globalization constitute parameters that both constrain industrial policymaking and provide opportunities to negotiate alternatives. Such representations of globalization are powerful precisely because they can become objectified as policy. They are also compelling because the literature on industrial policy has so far largely left them out. Focusing on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), this chapt…
Transdisciplinarity
This chapter assesses transdisciplinarity as an epistemological and methodological approach to research and teaching in the emerging field of global studies. It posits that the world’s most pressing problems in the areas of migration, health, and intersectional identities, to name a few, are unlikely to be addressed convincingly by inquiries rooted exclusively in singular social science disciplines. At the same time, transdisciplinarity is unders…
Countering the risks of vocationalisation in Master's programmes in International Development
We review the ontological and pedagogical origins of International Development graduate education in the context of increasing pressures to 'professionalise' graduate curricula. We apply Giroux's concept of 'vocationalisation' to argue that professionalisation risks undermining the field's intellectual foundations in an elusive quest to equip students with functional rather than intellectual skills. Acknowledging ever-growing competition among gr…
TED Talks on International Development
Despite their global popularity and relevance to Communication for Development (C4D), TED talks have not yet been systematically examined from the vantage point of C4D. We offer the first theoretical and empirical investigation of both the content and structure of talks on international development by leveraging definitions of C4D as well as literature on mediatization, rituals in international relations, and online activism. Our analysis suggest…
Security scales
This article juxtaposes two distinct violent dynamics in a highly securitized urban space: one covered by global media in every detail, yet of marginal importance to the vast majority of city dwellers; the other endemic, but absent from outsiders’ urban imaginary of life and death in Kabul. Although insurgent forces have utilized Afghanistan’s capital city as a stage for acts of spectacular violence ever since the 2001 international invasion, for…
Tracing Poverty and Inequality in International Development Discourses
Noting limited attention by international development agencies to inequalities compared to global poverty, we ask how these two challenges have been framed in agencies' policy publications during the past several decades. Following a recent application of algorithmic analysis to health policy narratives in the UK, we use text-mining software to compare the frequency of two alternative conceptualisations of poverty and inequality in three differen…
Ageing as a global public health challenge
Since 2002, ageing populations worldwide have received increasing attention by global policy-makers. However, resources committed by inter-governmental donors and US-based private foundations in support of ageing-related policies and interventions in non-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries have remained minimal during this decade and, where mobilised, have rarely responded to actual country-level demographics a…
Comparable and Yet Context-Sensitive? Improving Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies through Methodology
This article shows that the current stalemate in peacebuilding evaluation is due to disagreements between donor agencies, practitioners and scholar-practitioners about the necessity, appropriate level and purpose of such evaluations. It synthesises these three axes of disagreement in a theoretical framework, which is then applied to the case of evaluating reconciliation processes in violently divided societies. This application provides a clear m…
Social Media and Global Development Rituals
Social media content generated by web logs (‘blogs’) and Twitter messages (‘tweets’) constitute new types of data that can help us better understand the reproduction of global rituals in the context of international development policies and practice. Investigating the United Nations High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (mdgs), a three-day event held at UN Headquarters in New York in 2010, as a cas…
The Political Economy of Post-invasion Kabul, Afghanistan
The article applies the Althusserian concept of overdetermination to a contemporary case of urban restructuring in the global South. Since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the international aid industry has been using its capital city, Kabul, as a laboratory and launch pad for liberal policies and programmes to demonstrate that security, economic growth and democracy are mutually reinforcing and can therefore be achieved in conjunction. These in…
‘When we launched the government's agenda…’
Political realities in the capital cities of impoverished countries emerging from violent conflict illustrate how local actors can be hindered in conducting political affairs independently from the interests and influence of national governments as well as international agencies. This experience problematises the argument that the main cause of political impasse in African cities governed by opposition parties is incomplete decentralisation, wher…
Does Global Health Funding Respond to Recipients’ Needs? Comparing Public and Private Donors’ Allocations in 2005–2007
More Money, Less Cure
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The city as arena, hub and prey – patterns of violence in Kabul and Karachi
The city as arena, hub and prey patterns of violence in Kabul and Karachi
Violence in today’s cities limits the scope for effective urban governance. It also destroys opportunities for collective action conducive to political and economic development, thus jeopardizing the regional competitiveness of these cities. A myriad of causal factors have been suggested, including urbanization, ethnic diversity, social fragmentation and widespread poverty. The cases of Kabul in Afghanistan and Karachi in Pakistan illustrate thes…
Does Global Health Funding Respond to Recipients’ Needs? Comparing Public and Private Donors’ Allocations in 2005–2007
The city as arena, hub and prey patterns of violence in Kabul and Karachi
Violence in today’s cities limits the scope for effective urban governance. It also destroys opportunities for collective action conducive to political and economic development, thus jeopardizing the regional competitiveness of these cities. A myriad of causal factors have been suggested, including urbanization, ethnic diversity, social fragmentation and widespread poverty. The cases of Kabul in Afghanistan and Karachi in Pakistan illustrate thes…
Security scales
This article juxtaposes two distinct violent dynamics in a highly securitized urban space: one covered by global media in every detail, yet of marginal importance to the vast majority of city dwellers; the other endemic, but absent from outsiders’ urban imaginary of life and death in Kabul. Although insurgent forces have utilized Afghanistan’s capital city as a stage for acts of spectacular violence ever since the 2001 international invasion, for…
The Political Economy of Post-invasion Kabul, Afghanistan
The article applies the Althusserian concept of overdetermination to a contemporary case of urban restructuring in the global South. Since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the international aid industry has been using its capital city, Kabul, as a laboratory and launch pad for liberal policies and programmes to demonstrate that security, economic growth and democracy are mutually reinforcing and can therefore be achieved in conjunction. These in…
TED Talks on International Development
Despite their global popularity and relevance to Communication for Development (C4D), TED talks have not yet been systematically examined from the vantage point of C4D. We offer the first theoretical and empirical investigation of both the content and structure of talks on international development by leveraging definitions of C4D as well as literature on mediatization, rituals in international relations, and online activism. Our analysis suggest…
More Money, Less Cure
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness
How are accountability and organisational learning related? A study of German bilateral development cooperation
We analyse qualitative data collected from employees at Germany’s two main international development organisations, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) Development Bank, to study how upward accountability and organisational learning interact in the world’s second largest foreign aid system. Goffman’s ‘staging’ heuristic is applied to unpack social practices in these two organisati…
Tracing Poverty and Inequality in International Development Discourses
Noting limited attention by international development agencies to inequalities compared to global poverty, we ask how these two challenges have been framed in agencies' policy publications during the past several decades. Following a recent application of algorithmic analysis to health policy narratives in the UK, we use text-mining software to compare the frequency of two alternative conceptualisations of poverty and inequality in three differen…
Social Media and Global Development Rituals
Social media content generated by web logs (‘blogs’) and Twitter messages (‘tweets’) constitute new types of data that can help us better understand the reproduction of global rituals in the context of international development policies and practice. Investigating the United Nations High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (mdgs), a three-day event held at UN Headquarters in New York in 2010, as a cas…
The city as arena, hub and prey – patterns of violence in Kabul and Karachi
The city as arena, hub and prey patterns of violence in Kabul and Karachi
Violence in today’s cities limits the scope for effective urban governance. It also destroys opportunities for collective action conducive to political and economic development, thus jeopardizing the regional competitiveness of these cities. A myriad of causal factors have been suggested, including urbanization, ethnic diversity, social fragmentation and widespread poverty. The cases of Kabul in Afghanistan and Karachi in Pakistan illustrate thes…
More Money, Less Cure
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Does Global Health Funding Respond to Recipients’ Needs? Comparing Public and Private Donors’ Allocations in 2005–2007
‘When we launched the government's agenda…’
Political realities in the capital cities of impoverished countries emerging from violent conflict illustrate how local actors can be hindered in conducting political affairs independently from the interests and influence of national governments as well as international agencies. This experience problematises the argument that the main cause of political impasse in African cities governed by opposition parties is incomplete decentralisation, wher…
Ageing as a global public health challenge
Since 2002, ageing populations worldwide have received increasing attention by global policy-makers. However, resources committed by inter-governmental donors and US-based private foundations in support of ageing-related policies and interventions in non-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries have remained minimal during this decade and, where mobilised, have rarely responded to actual country-level demographics a…
Comparable and Yet Context-Sensitive? Improving Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies through Methodology
This article shows that the current stalemate in peacebuilding evaluation is due to disagreements between donor agencies, practitioners and scholar-practitioners about the necessity, appropriate level and purpose of such evaluations. It synthesises these three axes of disagreement in a theoretical framework, which is then applied to the case of evaluating reconciliation processes in violently divided societies. This application provides a clear m…
Social Media and Global Development Rituals
Social media content generated by web logs (‘blogs’) and Twitter messages (‘tweets’) constitute new types of data that can help us better understand the reproduction of global rituals in the context of international development policies and practice. Investigating the United Nations High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (mdgs), a three-day event held at UN Headquarters in New York in 2010, as a cas…
The Political Economy of Post-invasion Kabul, Afghanistan
The article applies the Althusserian concept of overdetermination to a contemporary case of urban restructuring in the global South. Since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the international aid industry has been using its capital city, Kabul, as a laboratory and launch pad for liberal policies and programmes to demonstrate that security, economic growth and democracy are mutually reinforcing and can therefore be achieved in conjunction. These in…
Security scales
This article juxtaposes two distinct violent dynamics in a highly securitized urban space: one covered by global media in every detail, yet of marginal importance to the vast majority of city dwellers; the other endemic, but absent from outsiders’ urban imaginary of life and death in Kabul. Although insurgent forces have utilized Afghanistan’s capital city as a stage for acts of spectacular violence ever since the 2001 international invasion, for…
Tracing Poverty and Inequality in International Development Discourses
Noting limited attention by international development agencies to inequalities compared to global poverty, we ask how these two challenges have been framed in agencies' policy publications during the past several decades. Following a recent application of algorithmic analysis to health policy narratives in the UK, we use text-mining software to compare the frequency of two alternative conceptualisations of poverty and inequality in three differen…
Countering the risks of vocationalisation in Master's programmes in International Development
We review the ontological and pedagogical origins of International Development graduate education in the context of increasing pressures to 'professionalise' graduate curricula. We apply Giroux's concept of 'vocationalisation' to argue that professionalisation risks undermining the field's intellectual foundations in an elusive quest to equip students with functional rather than intellectual skills. Acknowledging ever-growing competition among gr…
TED Talks on International Development
Despite their global popularity and relevance to Communication for Development (C4D), TED talks have not yet been systematically examined from the vantage point of C4D. We offer the first theoretical and empirical investigation of both the content and structure of talks on international development by leveraging definitions of C4D as well as literature on mediatization, rituals in international relations, and online activism. Our analysis suggest…
Transdisciplinarity
This chapter assesses transdisciplinarity as an epistemological and methodological approach to research and teaching in the emerging field of global studies. It posits that the world’s most pressing problems in the areas of migration, health, and intersectional identities, to name a few, are unlikely to be addressed convincingly by inquiries rooted exclusively in singular social science disciplines. At the same time, transdisciplinarity is unders…
Globalization Narratives and Industrial Policy
Competing narratives of globalization constitute parameters that both constrain industrial policymaking and provide opportunities to negotiate alternatives. Such representations of globalization are powerful precisely because they can become objectified as policy. They are also compelling because the literature on industrial policy has so far largely left them out. Focusing on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), this chapt…
Spatial Dynamics of Racialized Income Inequality in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area
This article presents findings of an analysis of the association between changes in neighborhoods’ racial composition and income inequality in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. We cluster U.S. Census data at the ward and district levels and find that the connection between race and income inequality appears potent in Washington, DC. Racially more homogeneous wards have lower income inequalities than those that are racially heterogeneous. We …
How are accountability and organisational learning related? A study of German bilateral development cooperation
We analyse qualitative data collected from employees at Germany’s two main international development organisations, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) Development Bank, to study how upward accountability and organisational learning interact in the world’s second largest foreign aid system. Goffman’s ‘staging’ heuristic is applied to unpack social practices in these two organisati…
Why do bureaucrats want mandatory training? A conjoint mixed‐methods analysis of individual learning preferences in German, Norwegian, and South Korean donor agencies
Development Expertise
We respond to the lack of measurable conceptualisations of expertise in development agencies by investigating its focus and appreciation in two national aid administrations as a function of knowledge and experience. We apply this definition of expertise to qualitative data from interviews with 58 randomly selected officials at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Coope…
How Do Foreign Aid Agencies Learn? A Comparative Analysis of Organisational Learning Determinants in National Donor Bureaucracies
We distil and validate a new theory of organisational learning (OL) to understand OL in foreign aid agencies. Reviewing existing scholarship on OL in the public sector, we devise a theorectical framework consisting of three variables that connect interacting dimensions co-determining the organisation-specific intensity of OL: (1) individual knowledge acquisition, (2) social practices and (3) organisational political embeddedness. To validate our …
Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness
Political science (19 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · International Development and Aid (7 obras) · Economic growth (6 obras) · Public Administration (6 obras)