LEADER 03693nam 2200673 450 001 9910788004803321 005 20210429024016.0 010 $a0-231-53911-8 024 7 $a10.7312/thom17120 035 $a(CKB)2670000000607039 035 $a(EBL)1974563 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001458863 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12629105 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001458863 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11456008 035 $a(PQKB)10232470 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001248652 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1974563 035 $a(DE-B1597)458528 035 $a(OCoLC)979739586 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231539111 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1974563 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11049031 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL759840 035 $a(OCoLC)908091713 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000607039 100 $a20150506h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGovern like us $eU.S. expectations of poor countries /$fM. A. Thomas 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-336-28554-0 311 0 $a0-231-17120-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Blind Spot --$t2. The Governance Ideal --$t3. Paper Empires, Paper Countries --$t4. Poor Countries, Poor Governments --$t5. Governing Cheaply --$t6. The Rule of Law --$t7. Governance as It Is --$t8. A Different Conversation --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn the poorest countries, such as Afghanistan, Haiti, and Mali, the United States has struggled to work with governments whose corruption and lack of capacity are increasingly seen to be the cause of instability and poverty. The development and security communities call for "good governance" to improve the rule of law, democratic accountability, and the delivery of public goods and services. The United States and other rich liberal democracies insist that this is the only legitimate model of governance. Yet poor governments cannot afford to govern according to these ideals and instead are compelled to rely more heavily on older, cheaper strategies of holding power, such as patronage and repression. The unwillingness to admit that poor governments do and must govern differently has cost the United States and others inestimable blood and coin. Informed by years of fieldwork and drawing on practitioner work and academic scholarship in politics, economics, law, and history, this book explains the origins of poor governments in the formation of the modern state system and describes the way they govern. It argues that, surprisingly, the effort to stigmatize and criminalize the governance of the poor is both fruitless and destabilizing. The United States must pursue a more effective foreign policy to engage poor governments and acknowledge how they govern. 606 $aPublic administration$zDeveloping countries 606 $aPoverty$xPolitical aspects$zDeveloping countries 606 $aPolitical culture$zDeveloping countries 607 $aDeveloping countries$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPublic administration 615 0$aPoverty$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPolitical culture 676 $a320.9172/4 686 $aMK 9000$2rvk 700 $aThomas$b Melissa Annette$01579371 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788004803321 996 $aGovern like us$93859413 997 $aUNINA