Governance as an emergent compromise

Modernization and flexibility in the Pakistani electrical power sector

Bibliographic Data

ID2305950
AuthorsIjlal Naqvi (0000-0001-7351-8482, Singapore Management University, Singapore, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume65
Issue2
Pages195-208
Publication date2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0011392116657290
OpenAlexW2522668130
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited23

Developing countries are often characterized by a mix of bad governance and development initiatives seeking to accelerate modernization. When inevitable cracks in the modernization process appear, they create opportunities for informalities to seep in where the influence of power relations and culture can lead to new forms of predation or allow governance compromises to emerge. The article explores this at the national and local levels of the Pakistani electrical power sector, with each level conceptualized as a field of strategic action. The aim is to recognize the importance of emergent compromises for producing workable accommodations of competing interests, improving access to services, and addressing questions of social justice. Flexibility in responding to these cracks in the modernization process is not always a failing, but can be desirable and possibly necessary

Action (physics) · Business · Compromise · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Flexibility (engineering) · Management · Modernization theory · Political science · Power (physics) · Process (computing) · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · International Development and Aid · Labor Movements and Unions · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

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