Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lahai, John Idriss (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), von Strokirch, Karin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Brasted, Howard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ware, Helen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Poverty.; Economic development.; Economic development-Environmental aspects.; Social change.; Economic policy.; Development Aid.; Regional Development.; Development and Sustainability.; Development and Social Change.; Development Policy.

The book examines the various ways that fragile states (or states with limited statehood) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas have adopted, and adapted to, the processes of liberal political governance in their quests to address the problem of political fragility. It presents the stories...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The History and Representations of The Challenges of Governance in the fragile States of Sub-Saharan Africa
• 3. Reifying Imagined Communities: The Triumph of the Fragile Nation-State and the Peril of Modernization
• 4. From Saving Failed States to Managing Risks: Reinterpreting Fragility through Resilience
• 5. Adapting to Survive: The Peculiar Fate of Liberal Governance Models in East Timor
• 6. Somalia: The Struggles in the Transient Phases in 'Somali-Style' (and Other Hybrid) Models of Governance
• 7. Whither Pakistan: The Ambivalence of Constitutional Road Mapping?
• 8. Managing Fragility? Chad's (Il)liberal Interventions and the Making of a Regional Hegemon
• 9. More Legitimate, Less Fragile, Less-Liberal? The Adoption and Adaptation of Elections in Afghanistan
• 10. Does Electoral Authoritarianism Persist? A Comparison of Recent Elections in Fiji, Seychelles And Maldives
• 11. Governance and Political Adaptation: Constituency Development Funds in Solomon Islands and the Construction of a Melanesian State. .