Nathalie Delapalme, Director of research and policy for the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, will contribute the lead commentary for the January 2011 issue of Governance. The Foundation is committed to supporting African leadership that will improve the economic and social prospects of the people of Africa. Delapalme was previously a French senior civil servant and specializes in Africa and development policies. Her most recent position was Inspector General at the Inspection Générale des Finances.
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Subscribe to Governance, get a free copy of The New Asian Hemisphere
Published April 4, 2010 Subscription offer , commentary Closed
Individuals who take a new subscription to the print version of Governance in April 2010 will receive a complimentary copy of Kishore Mahbubani‘s book, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, published by PublicAffairs in 2008.
Subscribe online here. Subscriptions are $30 in the Americas, €32 in Europe, and £21 in the rest of the world. This offer does not apply to renewals. Books will be sent to new subscribers in May 2010.
Free download: New Asian perspectives on Governance
Published March 31, 2010 commentary ClosedTags: Asia, financial crisis, neoliberalism
The lead commentary for the new issue of Governance (23.2, April 2010) is available as a free download for the next sixty days. New Asian Perspectives on Governance is written by Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
“There is no doubt that the great global financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009 had a profound impact on Asian policymakers,” says Mahbubani. “The first real result of this crisis is the loss of any lingering faith that Asian policymakers may have had with the Reagan-Thatcher revolution in governance and economic philosophy.” Read more.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes Governance commentary
Published March 11, 2010 commentary ClosedTags: accountability, corruption, India, responsiveness
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President of the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, writes the lead commentary for the July issue of Governance (23.3). “Indian politics,” says Mehta in his July commentary, “has been undergoing two subtle but pronounced shifts that may have larger lessons for the politics of democratic accountability.” Mehta is the co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (Oxford University Press, 2010); co-author of Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design (Oxford University Press, 2005); and author of The Burden of Democracy (Penguin Books, 2003).
Governance: New year, new design, new commentary on e-governance
Published January 1, 2010 Current issue , commentary ClosedTags: commentary, democracy, e-governance, information technology, Paul Starr
Happy new year! Governance begins 2010 with a new design. This is the first redesign of the journal since its launch in 1988. Celebrate the new year by enjoying free access to all content in the new issue, 23.1, throughout January.
The new design includes a new feature at the start of each issue: a short commentary by a leading scholar or policymaker on a critical question of governance. The first commentary is by Paul Starr, Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
“The fundamental problems of democracy are not susceptible to technological solutions,” says Starr. In the current environment, “it will be a struggle just to maintain some of the minimal conditions of political accountability that democracy requires.” Download Professor Starr’s commentary, “The Liberal State in a Digital World,” for free.
Free download: Mehta on state spending and governance in India
Published July 1, 2010 commentary ClosedTags: corruption, development, governance, India, state capacity
In India, Mehta argues, increased state expenditure has improved voters’ attention to governmental performance; changed the structure of corruption in beneficial ways; and allowed government to invest in stronger accountability instruments. “A growth in state capacity,” Mehta concludes, “can, to a certain extent, mitigate the ill effects of unaccountable government.” Download Mehta’s commentary for free.