Research Handbook on Democracy and Development

Edited by Gordon Crawford, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK and Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Department of Public Administration & Health Services Management, University of Ghana Business School, Ghana

• Contents:Introduction to Research Handbook on Democracy and Development : anoverview of the debates 1Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai and Gordon CrawfordPART I DEFINITIONS AND INTERLINKAGES1 Democracy: contested concept with a common core 27Svend-Erik Skaaning2 Development: a multidimensional concept 45Eija Ranta3 Democracy and development: moving beyond the conundrum 60Alina Rocha Menocal4 Sen and development as freedom 79Darley Jose KjosavikPART II CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY AND AUTOCRACY5 Neoliberal democracy vs neoliberal authoritarianism: capitalism anddemocracy’s global contest in the twenty-first century 99Rita Kiki Edozie6 Autocracy and variations in economic development outcomes 117Carl Henrik Knutsen7 Varieties of autocracy and human development 135Andrea CassaniPART III REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES8 Democracy and growth in Africa 152Michael T. Rock and Marc Howard Ross9 Democracy and development in Africa 174Augustin Kwasi Fosu10 Leaders, multiparty elections and developmental performances insub-Saharan Africa 194Giovanni Carbone and Alessandro Pellegata11 Democracy and development in Latin America 212Luis F. Angosto-Ferrández12 Democracy and development in Asia 228Aurel Croissant and Lars Pelke13 Democracy and development in the MENA 250Imad Salamey14 Democracy, development and Islam 263Michael T. Rock and Soli OzelPART IV INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND AID POLICY15 Corruption, democracy and development: the role of the European Union 293Ina Kubbe and Liljana Cvetanoska16 Human rights and development: civic engagement, approaches and outcomes 313Bård A. AndreassenPART V DEMOCRACY AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION17 Consociational democracy: compromise or collapse? 331Allison McCulloch18 Post-conflict reconstruction and democracy promotion 347Alpaslan Özerdem19 Transitional justice, transformative justice, democracy and development 359Matthew Evans20 South Africa: democracy and development in the post-apartheid era 372Tom LodgePART VI INEQUALITIES AND DEMOCRACY21 Why inequality is democracy’s catch-22 392Alina Rocha Menocal22 Gender inequality and democracy in Africa 408Gretchen Bauer23 Horizontal inequalities and democracy 420Frances StewartPART VII DEEPENING DEMOCRACY24 Participatory budgeting: contributions to reversing social and spatial priorities 442Yves Cabannes25 NGOs and the democratic space within Uganda’s emerging oil sector 462Badru Bukenya26 Democratic decentralization and local development: insights fromMorocco’s advanced regionalization process 482Sylvia I. BerghPART VIII DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT27 Representation, citizenship and the public domain: choice andrecognition in natural resource decentralization 503Jesse Ribot28 Democracy, ideological orientation and sustainable development 522Peter SöderbaumIndex 536

‘Democracy and development as inclusive pursuits do not come naturally to humans as self-interested actors. They require institutionalization and rules of practice to balance between autonomy and responsibility, the self and the collective. This impressive book, rich in theory and substantiation, reminds us why we must not give up on the imperatives of democracy and development despite the phenomenal challenges to their fulfillment.’