1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971523403321

Autore

Stiles Kendall W

Titolo

Civil society by design : donors, NGOs, and the intermestic development circle in Bangladesh / / Kendall W. Stiles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2002

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024

ISBN

9798400626777

9786610422821

9781280422829

1280422823

9780313012297

0313012296

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Disciplina

306/.095492

Soggetti

Economic assistance - Bangladesh

Economic assistance, Domestic - Bangladesh

Civil society - Bangladesh

Non-governmental organizations - Bangladesh

Bangladesh Economic policy

Bangladesh Economic conditions

Bangladesh Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-171) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- CIVIL SOCIETY BY DESIGN -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1  Intermestic Development Circles and Institutional Convergence -- INTERMESTIC DEVELOPMENT CIRCLES: AN EMERGING STRUCTURE -- THE EMERGENCE OF INTERMESTIC DEVELOPMENT CIRCLES: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- Initiation -- Donor Interests and Perspectives -- NGO Priorities and Perspectives -- The Opportunity Presents Itself -- The Debt Crisis -- The Third Wave -- The Cold War Ends -- Institutionalization -- Theories of Inter-Organizational Behavior -- Contact Points -- New Principal-Agent Contracts -- NGO Professionalization -- Maturation -- Contrary Tendencies --



Implications -- OUTLINE OF THE PROJECT -- Bangladesh as a Most Likely Case -- Processes and Dynamics -- 2  Donors and NGOs in Bangladesh -- BANGLADESHI SOCIAL STRUCTURES -- BANGLADESHI NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS -- Origins -- Grameen and Microcredit -- The NGO Community Today -- Major NGOs -- Intermediary NGOs -- Mid-sized and Small NGOs -- Community Organizations -- THE FOREIGN DONOR COMMUNITY IN BANGLADESH -- Bilateral Official Donors -- Multilateral Official Donors -- INGOs -- 3  Dynamics of Intermestic Development Circles -- INITIATION -- Donor Community Interests -- The Washington Consensus -- Doing More with Less -- The Pluralist Moment -- NGO Community Interests -- Doing More with More -- The Utility of a Patron -- INSTITUTIONALIZATION -- Network Characteristics -- Contact Points -- Principal-Agent Controls -- Project Funding -- Program Grants -- Consortium -- NGO Obstructionism -- NGO Professionalization -- MATURATION -- Self-Selection -- Disaffection -- Identity Convergence -- Revolving Door -- CASE STUDIES -- The Flood Action Plan Case -- The GSS Case -- CONTRARY TENDENCIES -- CONCLUSIONS -- 4  The Marginalized: Civil Society, Mass Movements, and the State -- CIVIL SOCIETY -- Journalist Organizations -- Labor.

Private Sector -- Academic and Theater Groups -- ISLAMIC GROUPS -- MASS MOVEMENTS -- THE STATE -- State-Society Relations -- State-Donor Relations -- CONCLUSION: MARGINALIZED BANGLADESHI ACTORS -- EPILOGUE: DONOR MARGINALIZATION? -- 5  Conclusions and Implications for Theory and Policy -- SUMMARY OF THE STUDY -- Theoretical Propositions -- Findings -- Conclusions -- Generalizability? -- THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS -- Intermestic Development Circles and Democratization -- Intermestic Development Circles and Global Civil Society -- Globalization, Dependency, and Intermestic Development Circles -- POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- Intermestic Development Circles and Authenticity -- Rehabilitating the State? -- Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on years of research and direct experience in Bangladesh, Stiles pulls together theoretical strands from economics, sociology, and anthropology to help explain an emerging social structure in the Third World. These structures, which he calls intermestic development circles, bring together international donor agencies with various domestic community and private organizations. In Bangladesh not-for-profit agencies are dramatically transforming their operation and organizational cultures, while in turn Western NGOs are themselves changing in subtle ways. Scholars of development will find Stiles's intriguing account of the reciprocating effects of extensive interaction, cooperation, and tensions between international donors and domestic recipients informative and provocative. Moving through three discernable phases, each one explainable by resort to different theories, these development circles grow from mere trading arrangements to a coherent social structure, separate from the rest of civil society in Bangladesh. While in the process of the not-for-profits receiving assistance become wealthier and more effective, they lose much of their local identity and become part of a transnational network. At the same time, donors must recast themselves in order to work effectively with these agencies, which often creates tension between local and home offices. The book closes with some recommendations that might attenuate some of the more troubling effects of this transformation.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911018943003321

Titolo

Heart failure : a combined medical and surgical approach / / edited by Patrick M. McCarthy, James B. Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Futura, 2007

ISBN

9786610932450

9781280932458

1280932457

9780470984772

0470984775

9780470994795

0470994797

9781405181341

1405181346

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McCarthyPatrick M. <1955->

YoungJames B

Disciplina

616.129

616.12906

Soggetti

Heart failure - Treatment

Heart - Diseases - Treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Heart Failure: A Combined Medical and Surgical Approach; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Epidemiology of heart failure: progression to pandemic?; 2 Heart failure clinical trials: shaping the evidence for treatment guidelines; 3 Standard medical therapy of heart failure; 4 Novel therapies in heart failure; 5 Implantable cardioverter defibrillators and biventricular pacemakers in congestive heart failure; 6 Managing a heart failure clinic; 7 Novel imaging technologies for heart failure patients; 8 Assessment of myocardial viability in ischemic cardiomyopathy

9 Bypass surgery in the treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy10 Valve surgery for patients with left ventricular dysfunction; 11 Ventricular



reconstruction and device therapies for cardiomyopathy patients; 12 Mechanical circulatory support; 13 The role of heart transplantation; 14 Perioperative care of the surgical patient with heart failure: from conventional cardiac surgery to mechanical circulatory support; 15 Biological approaches to heart failure: gene transfer and cell transplantation; 16 Ethical issues in cardiothoracic medicine; Disclosure Statements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Providing optimal care for heart failure patients is a complex challenge that requires cooperation and coordination across multiple disciplines. Now, you can apply the successful techniques pioneered at the Cleveland Clinic, which are carefully explored and explained in this text. Drs. McCarthy and Young draw on their experience to show how an interdisciplinary team works together to:arrive at a proper diagnosisinitiate medical therapymake decisions regarding the best use of percutaneous therapies, surgical therapies, electrical therapies, and the use of mechanical circulator