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The future of development management: Introduction to the special issue

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  • Nilima Gulrajani
  • Willy McCourt
  • Willy McCourt
  • Nilima Gulrajani

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This article introducing the Special Issue begins with a review of development administration and management's post‐independence history, outlining the new challenges posed by the rise of the governance model and critical development management. The seven articles, which follow, are then summarised. We extrapolate from them to suggest new directions for development management: a better understanding of the relationship between politics and management; using a more nuanced view of policy to inform development management specialists' ethical choices between policies; understanding policy capture by hostile interests; taking the ‘view from below’, studying local sensemaking and the way it affects programme outcomes, and the interaction of power and knowledge. Suggested new directions include a focus on the practice of development agencies and on developing appropriate research methodologies. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Nilima Gulrajani & Willy McCourt & Willy McCourt & Nilima Gulrajani, 2010. "The future of development management: Introduction to the special issue," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 30(2), pages 81-90, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:padxxx:v:30:y:2010:i:2:p:81-90
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    1. James Copestake & Richard Williams, 2014. "Political-Economy Analysis, Aid Effectiveness and the Art of Development Management," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 32(1), pages 133-153, January.
    2. Alisa Moldavanova & Tamaki Onishi & Stefan Toepler, 2023. "Civil society and democratization: The role of service‐providing organizations amid closing civic spaces," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 43(1), pages 3-13, February.
    3. Hall, Matthew, 2017. "Crafting compromises in a strategising process: a case study of an international development organisation," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 62299, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    4. Lena Gutheil & Dirk‐Jan Koch, 2023. "Civil society organizations and managerialism: On the depoliticization of the adaptive management agenda," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 41(1), January.

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