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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer N. Brass is a professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington. Brass was a 2015 recipient of the Indiana University-wide Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, and has received awards from the African Politics Conference Group at the American Political Science Association and from the International Society for Third-Sector Research. Brass has completed field research in Senegal, Kenya, Djibouti and Uganda and has conducted trainings for the US State Department, the US armed services, and the private sector. Klappentext This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development. Zusammenfassung Jennifer N. Brass explains how proliferation of NGOs in developing countries has changed the nature of service provision! governance! and state-development in the early twenty-first century. Allies or Adversaries is ideal for scholars! international development practitioners! and students interested in global or international affairs. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. NGOs and state development; 2. Theorizing NGOs and the state: territoriality, governance, capacity, legitimacy; 3. Kenya as case study: historical portraits of NGOs and the state; 4. Territoriality: NGOs and the broadcasting of state power; 5. NGOs' role in governance: changing patterns of policymaking and implementation; 6. NGOs, service provision and administrative capacity: isomorphism through learning in the civil service; 7. Have NGOs decreased perceptions of state legitimacy over time?; 8. NGOs: increase state legitimacy or undermine popular support?; 9. Blurring the boundaries between NGOs and the state: a comparative analysis; Appendix; References; Index.
