How Change Happens

by Green, Duncan

• ISBN13: 9780198785392
• ISBN10: 0198785399
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-12-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Duncan Green, Senior Strategic Adviser, Oxfam Great Britain and Professor in Practice, London School of Economics

Duncan Green is Oxfam GB's Senior Strategic Adviser. He also teaches on international development at the London School of Economics, where he is a Professor in Practice. His blog is one of the most widely read on international development, and is named after his book From Poverty to Power (2nd ed., 2012). How Change Happens contains the accumulated experience of years spent engaged in the field, researching and writing about reducing poverty and combating injustice and, as the author says, trying to, "do justice to the complexity of the world, while still believing there is a story about how it can be changed for the better."

Table of Contents

Foreword, Ha-Joon Chang
Introduction
Section 1. The Power and Systems Approach
1. Systems Thinking Changes Everything
2. Change is about Power
3. Norms and Change
Case Study: The Chiquitanos of Bolivia
Section 2. Institutions
Introduction to Section 2
4. How States Change
5. The Machinery of Law
6. Accountability: Political Parties, Media, and Activism
7. The International System
8. Transnational Corporations
Case Study: The December 2015 Paris Agreement
Section 3. Activists
Introduction to Section 3
9. Citizen Activism and Civil Society
10. Leaders and leadership
11. Advocacy
12. A Power and Systems Approach to Making Change Happen
Conclusion