Microcosms of Democracy? A Study of the Internal Governance of International NGOs in Kenya1

Liston, Vanessa

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“…Hence, the actions of NGOs and GROs are seen as a reflection of the interests of their own patrons as well as their staff (Liston, 2009;Mosse, 2004). NGOs and even GROs are increasingly perceived "as unaccountable, non-participatory, and even unsustainable or obsolete sinks for donor funds" (Harsh, Mbatia, & Shrum, 2010, p. 253).…”

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Water sector governance: a return ticket to anarchy

Wegerich¹,

Warner

Tortajada³

2014

International Journal of Water Governance

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A political-science perspective of anarchy holds that anarchy is the absence of a ruler. In the water sector, especially in terms of irrigated agriculture, emerging deficiencies of public irrigation systems as well as the budget crisis of governments to sustain irrigated agriculture, resulted into increased water user participation. Understanding the apparently increasing smidgeon of anarchy in the water sector includes the appreciation of the complexity of water governance developments such as the introduction of Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM), Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT), basin councils, Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSP), as well as the limited role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and grassroots organisations (GROs), for decades considered the ‘magic bullet’ in taking over and providing state services to the public. We conclude that governance is anarchy by other means

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Section: The Rise Of "Governance"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Water sector governance: a return ticket to anarchy

Wegerich¹,

Warner

Tortajada³

2014

International Journal of Water Governance

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“…57 Since then, many scholars have applied one or several of Pitkin's dimensions of representation to civil society organisations and have used them to analyse the relationship between these actors' leaders and constituents (e.g. Some place the focus on the accountability of leaders to members (Bramble 2000;Cnaan 1991: 618;Halpin 2006: 928;see also Lansley 1996: 224), while others (also) consider the authorisation of leaders by their constituents (Halpin 2006: 928;Liston 2009). They have explored formalistic representation in CSOs, for instance, by looking at elections, the lengths of terms of office, the existence of constituent meetings, and the right of opposition within these organisations (e.g.…”

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“…It also investigates the actual practice of member involvement in EU-level CSOs. Case studies of grassroots or neighbourhood organisations often take both points of view into consideration by combining surveys or interview material gathered among leaders and constituents (Bolduc 1980;Guo and Musso 2007;Liston 2009;Ragab et al 1981;Swindell 2000). As Lavalle et al (2005: 13) point out, "the simple existence of representation does not guarantee representativeness or necessarily its correspondence to the will of those being represented".…”

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confidence: 99%

Their Members’ Voice

Rodekamp¹

2014

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The Democratic Implications of npos and the Control Strategy of the State

Chang-juan¹,

Meijs

2016

China Nonprofit Rev

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Liberal scholars attribute an essential role to nonprofit organizations (npos) in the process of democratization, due to their roles in raising public awareness and supervising the hegemony of the state. Nevertheless, the current literature has yet to pay sufficient attention to the ways in which governments respond to the dynamics of power. As argued inpublic rational choice theory, the government is a self-benefit maximizing bureaucrat that spares no effort to adopt various strategies aimed at keeping society under control. We have studied this postulation by comparing the two contrasting civil societies of China and the Netherlands. Results from our investigation of campaigningnpos from China and the Netherlands confirm that states tend to apply a range of strategies (e.g., political restrictions and financial instruments) in order to assimilatenpos into the developmental planning of the government (e.g., by stimulating the economic functions ofnpos while weakening their democratic functions in intangible ways).

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Microcosms of Democracy? A Study of the Internal Governance of International NGOs in Kenya1

Cited by 3 publications

References 40 publications

Water sector governance: a return ticket to anarchy

Water sector governance: a return ticket to anarchy

Their Members’ Voice

The Democratic Implications of npos and the Control Strategy of the State

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