Advancing Governance in the South What are the Roles for International Financial Institutions in Developing States?

by Riggirozzi, Pía

• ISBN13: 9780230220119
• ISBN10: 0230220118
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230233928
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Drawing on the Latin American political economy, this book brings to the fore empirical questions on different patterns of involvement of IFIs in pursuing politically-sensitive reforms, the capacity of local actors to influence outcomes, the context in which they interact, the type of policy ideas conveyed, and the policy process that are advanced.

Author Biography

PIA RIGGIROZZI is a Research Officer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she also holds an ESRC post-doctoral fellowship. Her publications include ‘The Return of the State in Argentina' in International Affairs (2007, with Jean Grugel).

Table of Contents

List of Table and Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Crafting governance for development	p. 3
Power politics and reform processes	p. 9
Conveyors and brokers of funds, knowledge and policies	p. 15
The core argument	p. 18
Brokers and Conveyors of Governance	p. 23
Issues of power in the international political economy	p. 25
Grounding governance in local power politics	p. 32
Knowledge, funds and pro-reform networks	p. 37
A final note on brokers and conveyors of governance	p. 44
Complexities of Governance in Argentina's Political Economy	p. 47
Neoliberal governance in Argentina	p. 49
Crisis of neoliberalism	p. 59
Contending ideas and the attempt to change governance in Argentina	p. 64
Conclusion	p. 71
Contesting Governance: Power and Politics in Judicial Reform in Argentina	p. 74
Governance: The IFIs' (a)political dilemma	p. 75
The politics of judicial reform in Argentina	p. 78
The World Bank as a conveyor of funds and paradigms	p. 83
Judicial reform in the aftermath of the crisis of neoliberalism	p. 90
Contesting judicial reform	p. 94
Conclusion	p. 96
Governance as Political Engagement: Promoting Anti-Corruption Policies in Argentina	p. 99
Anti-corruption within the 'Knowledge Bank': An attempt to avoid the 'best practices' trap	p. 101
Broadening the scope for action	p. 103
The problem of corruption in Argentina	p. 106
Local experts and contesting ideas: Promoting reform from within	p. 109
The World Bank and the politics of anti-corruption in Argentina	p. 112
The Anti-Corruption Office Programme	p. 116
The Crystal Initiative (Iniciativa Cristal)	p. 118
Brokering knowledge, funds and reform networks	p. 120
Conclusion	p. 121
Governance after Neoliberalism in Argentina	p. 125
Governance: Technical versus political	p. 126
Promoting governance in a changing political economy	p. 131
After neoliberalism, what?	p. 134
The role of the IFIs in post-crisis governance	p. 137
The World Bank and the IDB: Reinventing the Commons	p. 142
Conclusion	p. 153
A Regional Platform for Alternative Governance: What Roles for the IFIs?	p. 155
Changes and dilemmas in current Latin American political economy	p. 158
Beyond neoliberal governance: Where do we go from here?	p. 162
New rules of the game?	p. 167
Alternative governance practices: Banking on autonomy	p. 171
Promoting Governance in Developing Countries: The Need for a New Compromise	p. 179
The politics of governance and future challenges for the international financial institutions	p. 182
References	p. 188
Index	p. 203
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