Inside the political mind : the human side of politics and how it shapes development / Greg Power.
Why have efforts to strengthen quality of governance so often failed in some of the world's most troubled states? Because they almost always ignore the human side of politics.
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Why political behavior is always logical
- Part one. Getting from What the rules say to What the rules mean.
- The art of agreeing how to disagree : a short history of political punch-ups
- Institutions with new rules, but no norms : Libya, Egypt and Iraq
- What the rules mean : the importance of behavioral norms
- Part two. The circular logic of political reciprocity : formal institutions and informal politics. Roundabouts and reciprocal altruism
- The conundrum of constituency service : politicians and their people
- Party lines : the human side of machine politics
- Parliamentary logic : how politicians shape their institutions, and their institutions shape them
- Part three. Institution building from the inside : a behavioural approach to political reform.
- Finding ways out of the gyratory circus : the human side of political development
- Individuals over institutions : all change is behavioural change
- Reform at Hogwarts-on-Thames : why the political is always personal
- What's in it for me? : reform as reciprocal altruism
- Radical incrementalism : get the small things right first
- Coda. Politics, as usual.