The Politics of Development Policy Labelling

Wood, Geof

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.1985.tb00214.x

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“…Operational rules define a proper and rational conduct and ascribe a certain identity or label to real life actors (Wood, 1985). They prescribe a normative idea of conduct for organisational actors with fixed identities and rationalities.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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The success of a policy model: Irrigation management transfer in Mexico

Rap

2006

The Journal of Development Studies

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The Mexican policy of Irrigation Management Transfer has been widely propagated as a success and has become a model for other countries seeking to improve the performance of their irrigation systems while also cutting public expenditures. This article analyses the process of policy-making that has generated the policy model and follows the practices, means, and events through which it has achieved increasing transnational circulation, popularity, and support. The main argument of this article is that the success of a policy model is only a success within the cultural and ideological understandings of a policy network and given the means, practices, and events that generate and disseminate it. This particular case further suggests that success in policy-making, rather than being based on straightforward evidence of improved management performance, is often part of a cultural performance.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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The success of a policy model: Irrigation management transfer in Mexico

Rap

2006

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…It is important to spell out why a focus on the conceptual apparatus that sets up the case for development should be a domain of sociopolitical inquiry. Ferguson (1994), Mitchell (1995), Escobar (1995), Pigg (1994), and Wood (1985) all show in their studies of "development" interventions that reports which spell out the conceptual apparatus of development authoritatively tell a story about a society and its conditions. In most cases, such stories, they Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego] at 01:53 05 January 2015 cjas / rcea 35 :1 2001 argue, are ahistorical and depoliticized.…”

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Are Development Planners Afraid of History and Contextualization? Notes on Reading a Development Report on Northern Ghana

Botchway¹

2001

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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Lorsqu'elles présentent leurs arguments en faveur du développement, estce que les agences de développement internationales analysent les sociétés qu'elles s'efforcent de développer comme des organismes engagées dans un processus historique plus large ou les voient-elles comme des sociétés isolées avec seulement quelques contacts sporadiques avec le monde extérieur? Cet article, analysant le cas d'un projet de développement rural dans la région nord du Ghana, conjointement financé par le Ghana et le Canada, affirme que les questions concernant le développement de cette région avaient été présentées comme si la pauvreté de la région était uniquement la conséquence des caractéris-tiques bio-physiques de la région et d'une piètre application des principes économiques. Cet article remet en question une telle emphase et déclare que le cas du projet de développement dans le Ghana du nord n'a pas été replacé dans son contexte et n'a pas suffisamment tenu compte de son histoire pour explorer les causes politiques, économiques et structurelles à long terme de la pauvreté dans cette région. Ce faisant, les questions contestées sur les causes socio-politiques et structurelles de la pauvreté deviennent dépolitisées.

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“…Existe entonces una "política de la designación, rotulación, o de las marcas", que en muchos ámbitos se ha ido asociando con el tema del desarrollo rural, entre otros dominios de la política, y que no sólo involucra aspectos lingüísticos sino también los relacionados con la imagen (cfr. Reina et al, 2007, en el caso del café;Wood, 1985, para un punto de vista más teórico).…”

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El juego político de las representaciones. Análisis antropológico de la identidad cafetera nacional en contextos de crisis

Tocancipá-Falla

2010

Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol.

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The Politics of Development Policy Labelling

Cited by 91 publications

References 11 publications

The success of a policy model: Irrigation management transfer in Mexico

The success of a policy model: Irrigation management transfer in Mexico

Are Development Planners Afraid of History and Contextualization? Notes on Reading a Development Report on Northern Ghana

El juego político de las representaciones. Análisis antropológico de la identidad cafetera nacional en contextos de crisis

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