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- This project will examine attempts to establish policy
frameworks and institutional mechanisms at a global level to deal with
issues of governance within developing economies.
- It will address the contending ideas, forces and interests
currently shaping the agendas for global governance in this sphere and
the different emphasis placed on institution building, democratic
transition, administrative decentralisation, market reform and social
change as frameworks within which governance objectives might be
achieved.
- Effectiveness of existing global efforts to deal with problems
arising from state failure and the absence of rule of law, arbitrary
and/or predatory rule, regime change, social conflict and the absence of
rule of law will be assessed in comparative case studies.
- In the context of recent revisions and debates about
institutional change and nation building we will develop conceptual
frameworks in which the effectiveness of different agendas for global
governance are assessed and draw larger theoretical conclusions from
these as well as more practical lessons for programme design.
- The project will use the critical mass of the Network of
Excellence to generate new ideas about policy opportunities and new
visions of the way Europe might define innovative policy approaches and
play a cohesive and central role in dialogue and policy implementation.
- Finally, we will generate through the integrated activities of
the network, a more cohesive and focused research capacity on problems
of governance in developing economies and an institutional framework
that will sustain ongoing activities in innovative research,
collaboration between academic and non-academic groups and the active
dissemination of research products.
- This will be a project that will deal with the problems of
establishing effective governance in developing economies and also with
the associated dynamics of policy formulation and institution building
at the global level to achieve these objectives. Work will begin in
early 2005, negotiating details with the research team from across the
network and also from the developing economies to work with ISS team
members on the project. Core concept framework will be prepared by the
team leader and sent to participants for feedback.
- At an initial workshop in September 2005, the team members will
present drafts of specific studies. These will be discussed in relation
to the coherence of the larger project by the research team and
selected participants from policy and development institutions. The
workshop will set further agendas and refine the central research
questions, set timetables, plan publications and decide on associated
exchanges, integration of post-graduates and institutional linkages as
well as mechanisms of disseminating research progress.
- This workshop will be integrated with a short programme for
post graduate students working in association with the project and with
selected participation from across Europe and the developing economies
aimed at discussing the substance of the project and developing
approaches to research design in global governance and development.
- Fully developed research papers discussed at a conference in
August/September 2006 after which the papers will be edited and prepared
for revision and subsequent publication.
- A structured dialogue workshop with policy and development
practitioners in the public and private sector will be integrated with
this workshop to discuss outcomes and seek responses and to develop
agendas for future research directions and collaboration in policy
related activities.
- These events will be embedded in ongoing consultations across
research teams and associated exchanges with researchers from developing
economies.
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