The role of epistemic communities: local think tanks, international practitioners and security sector reform in Kosovo

Phillipps, Jacob

doi:10.1080/14683857.2018.1474553

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“…Such research should appreciate the di erentiated nature of local agency (Beysoylu 2018;Kursani 2018;Phillipps 2018;Selenica 2018;Tadic and Elbasani 2018;Triantafyllou 2018;Troncota 2018). While the 'local turn' in the statebuilding literature has provided new insights into statebuilding dynamics, the literature has been less disposed to exploring the di erent facets of local agency, to understand their relevance and how they may contradict each other.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…is research contributes to the now prominent literature on the importance of local factors in determining outcomes in statebuilding, which has helpfully turned attention to how local actors react to and in uence statebuilding (Beysoylu 2018;Elbasani 2018;Kursani 2018;Mac Ginty 2010, 2011Phillipps 2018;Selenica 2018;Triantafyllou 2018;Troncota 2018). e research demonstrates the importance of one particular type of local agency: political leadership.…”

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Explaining municipal governance in Kosovo: local agency, credibility and party patronage

Jackson¹

2020

International-Led Statebuilding and Local Resistance

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What can explain the varied e ectiveness of internationally led attempts at statebuilding? This article seeks to answer this question by comparing the contrasting trajectories of governance in two municipalities in Kosovo: Hani i Elezit/Elez Han and Kamenica. In Hani i Elezit, evidence suggests that e ective and accountable governance is embedded. However, in Kamenica informal and clientelist practices persist and residents are less satis ed with the municipality's performance. As the nature and extent of internationally led statebuilding has been similar in both municipalities, explaining variation requires an analytical shift to how local leadership interacts with, receives and ultimately shapes statebuilding processes. The data are based on eldwork from 2012 to 2015. The article focuses on two critical dimensions of statebuilding: capacity building and social accountability. It argues that the impact of externally led statebuilding strategies depends on the orientation of the political leadership of the municipalities. The article identi es features of the political environment, namely credibility and the organization of political parties, which constrain the kind of public-oriented leadership necessary for e ective and accountable governance.

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