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Ratification by the United States of the Convention on the Rights of the Chil…
This article discusses the significance of the United States’ ratification of the CRC, concluding that even if the treaty is not self-executing, ratification would make a major difference. It would enable the United States to better promote children’s rights abroad, and it would push the United States to develop its domestic law in dramatically new directions that empower children. The CRC prov…
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- Vol. 633 no. 1. December 2011. pp. 80-101
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Children and the Rights of Citizens: Nondomination and Intergenerational Justice
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) emphasizes the importance of the temporal dimension of childhood and children’s need for special protection. Such protection is necessary because of their susceptibility to domination, especially intergenerational domination. The same is true for past and future generations, where such domination includes the domination of and by the current gener…
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- Vol. 633 no. 1. January 2011.pp. 128-140
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The Child as Democratic Citizen
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) justifiably emphasizes welfare over participation rights of children for two reasons. First, children are by nature an at-risk population. Second, democratic citizenship rights require a minimal bundle of cognitive and emotional capacity—which may be called “political maturity”—that children, again by nature, lack. However, the CRC …
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- Vol. 633 no. 1. January 2011.pp. 141-166
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To Be (Come) or Not to Be (Come): Understanding Children’s Citizenship
This article explores notions of the “child as citizen” and “children’s citizenship” in the context of possibilities and promises for the rights of children that are laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It poses the question, Can “children’s citizenship” ever be fully accomplished for and/or by children? The article begins with an examination of contemporary the…
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- Vol. 633 no. 1. January 2011.pp. 167-179
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Participatory Niches for Emergent Citizenship in Early Adolescence: An Intern…
This article is based on the assumption that the right to vote in national elections is not an essential dimension of citizenship for early adolescents as long as adolescents’ other competencies and attitudes are nurtured in their everyday settings. The article addresses the issue of children or early adolescents and their political and civic participation from three perspectives. First, it exa…
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- Vol. 633 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 180-200
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American Sixteen- and Seventeen-Year-Olds Are Ready to Vote
American 16- and 17-year-olds ought to be allowed to vote in state and national elections. This claim rests upon a line of argument that begins with an exegesis of legal and philosophical notions of citizenship that identify core qualities of citizenship: membership, concern for rights, and participation in society. Each of these qualities is present in rudimentary form in childhood and adolesc…
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- Vol. 633 no. 1.January 2011.pp. 201-222
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Adolescents as Deliberative Citizens: Building Health Competence in Local Com…
Given the host of tragic events that children experience, it is often compelling for well-intended adults to respond in a protective and charitable fashion. The child rights approach asks for more. Building on their collective experiences in the developmental and social sciences, the authors present in roughly chronological fashion a synopsis of the theoretical explorations and scientific evalu…
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- Vol. 633 no. 1. January 2011. pp. 223-242
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Promoting Children’s Capacities for Active and Deliberative Citizenship wit…
This article explains several core aspects of the experience of the Omar Dengo Foundation of Costa Rica in the development of the Deliberative Capabilities in School Age Children project, a set of citizenship education programs based on the conception of children as citizens and on a particular conception of the role of digital technologies in the promotion of children’s high-order skills. It a…
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- Vol. 633 no. 1. January 2011.pp. 243-262
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Creating a Capable Bureaucracy With Loyalists: The Internal Dynamics of the S…
This study explores why South Korea’s top leadership combined a merit-based principle with region-based particularistic elements in the recruitment and promotion of career bureaucrats of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) during its industrial takeoff in the 1960s and 1970s. It also investigates how this recruitment and promotion style was emulated by business sectors as a way of secur…
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- Volol. 44 no. 1. January 2011.pp. 78-108
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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The Political Role of Service Delivery in State-Building: Exploring the Relev…
Concerns about failed and fragile states have put state- and nation-building firmly on the academic and policy agenda, but the crucial role of public services in this process has remained underexplored. The 1960s and ‘70s generated a substantial set of literature that is largely missing from current writing. It identified state penetration, standardisation and accommodation as key processes in …
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2011. pages 5–21
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The View from Le Château: USAID's Recent Decentralisation Programming in Uganda
This article makes three linked arguments. (i) USAID's decentralisation portfolio in Uganda was launched, ironically, at precisely the time when the government was reorienting itself toward recentralisation. (ii) Because of the prevalence of dehistoricised approaches to policy, design, practice and evaluation, USAID programmers could not fully assess the contextual situation of their decentrali…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2011. pages 23–46
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Infrastructure Privatisation: Oversold, Misunderstood and Inappropriate
Infrastructure privatisation aimed to finance capital investment and improve efficiency, but the results have been disappointing because of the mismatch between privatisation theory and the characteristics of infrastructure and utility projects in developing countries. This article reviews the evidence and seeks to explain the results in terms of the high capital costs and low revenues that hav…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2011. pages 47–74
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The Millennium Development Goals: Key Current Issues and Challenges
The current global financial and economic crisis has severely impaired social and economic progress throughout the world. Does this mean the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? This article addresses this question, considering selected theoretical and strategic issues, including new and incremental approaches, the role of governmental leadership and operational integrity and the und…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2011. pages 75–90
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From Commoditisation to De-commoditisation … and Back Again: Discussing the…
Sustainability standards are flooding global agricultural markets. Standards, however, are not new. This article analyses, from a historical perspective, the implications of the transition from traditional to sustainability standards in the commoditisation/de-commoditisation process. It shows how early standards contributed to the construction of the category of primary commodities and how, aft…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2011. pages 91–113
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Marketing Reform? The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Liberalisation in Tanzania
This article argues that the liberalisation of Tanzanian export agriculture from the early 1990s to the present has failed to take place to the extent claimed by the Tanzanian government and donor agencies. While internal food markets have largely been liberalised, donor-inspired attempts to liberalise export crop markets have been seriously undermined by the political-bureaucratic class. As in…
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- Vol 29, Supplement s1, January 2011.pages s57–s81
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- Development Policy Review Special Issue: Aid, Institutions and Governance: What Have We Learned?
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Aid, Institutions and Governance: What Have We Learned?
Understanding of the relationship between institutions and economic progress made major headway in the 1990s. Since 2000 the pace of intellectual advance has been stepped up, with fresh thinking especially on governance systems and the role of aid. This article illustrates these propositions with special reference to relevant contributions to DPR over the period. Three particular topics are add…
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Politics and Growth
Theories of growth have made progress in understanding the mechanisms of growth in economic terms. However, there is less understanding of the political processes that enable or obstruct these mechanisms. This article provides a four-stage framework to clarify and analyse the connections between politics and growth: (i) discussing the basic conditions essential for growth; (ii) suggesting that …
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- Vol 29, Supplement s1, January 2011, pages s28–s55
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The Macroeconomics of Doubling Aid to Africa and the Centrality of the Supply…
The proposed doubling of aid to Africa by 2010 is a less simple proposition, from a recipient point of view, than is commonly supposed. This article argues that it is difficult to manage large and rapidly increasing aid inflows in ways which do not disadvantage producers of tradeable goods, and the private sector generally. This difficulty can be averted if conscious efforts are made to offset …
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- Vol 29, Supplement s1, Jan 2011. pages s83–s108
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The PRSP Approach and the Illusion of Improved Aid Effectiveness: Lessons fro…
Since 1999, poor countries that want to qualify for concessionary IMF loans and debt relief must elaborate and implement Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. Donors claim that the PRSP approach will increase aid effectiveness since PRSPs will enhance broad country ownership and lead to better ‘partnership’ with donors, implying more donor co-ordination under government leadership. By examining th…
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- Vol 29, Supplement s1, Jan 2011. pages s110–s133
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The Poverty Reduction Strategy Approach Six Years On: An Examination of Princ…
It is over six years since the World Bank and the IMF started promoting a PRS approach to development management in low-income countries. The 2005 review endorsed the approach, but highlighted the need for a renewed focus on the principles underpinning it: country ownership; results orientation; comprehensiveness; partnership focus; and long-term outlook. Uganda is often hailed as one of the be…
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- Vol 29, Supplement s1, Jan 2011. pages s135–s156
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