Tobias Akhtar Haque

Public Finance, Conflict, and International Interventions (eBook, ePUB)

How Good Governance Reforms Can Weaken State-building

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a critical analysis of the political and conflict impacts of "good governance" public finance reforms, showing how unintended distributional outcomes can undermine broader state-building goals.

The international community expends enormous resources trying to build "good governance" institutions in countries emerging from war. By ensuring efficiency, increasing transparency, and enhancing public accountability in the use of public resources, the adoption of "good governance" institutions is assumed to support stability, peace, and sustainable economic growth. Such assumptions, however, have a limited empirical basis and obscure a more complex reality. Drawing from political science and institutional economics, and evidence from major state-building interventions in Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Solomon Islands, this book explores the impacts of technocratic "good governance" reforms in fragile environments. Through the lens of public finance reform, it illustrates how efforts to achieve efficiency and accountability, while often bringing important benefits, can also undercut the patronage channels that draw together powerful elites, thereby increasing conflict pressures and eroding prospects for sustainable peace. This book makes the case for a reconsideration of the "good governance" agenda and the appropriateness of its application in developing countries experiencing or at risk of war.

This book will be of interest to students of state-building, global governance, political economy, development studies, and International Relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040380994
• Artikelnr.: 74147525

Autorenporträt

Tobias Akhtar Haque is a development professional and economist with extensive practical experience leading governance and economic reforms in fragile state contexts. He holds a PhD in Public Finance from the Australian National University, Canberra.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: State-building and Political Settlements 1 Good
Governance in Context 2 Good Governance and Social Order 3 Analytical
Approach Part II: When Good Governance Confronts Conflict 4 Conflict and
Intervention in Solomon Islands 5 Public Finance and State-building in
Solomon Islands 6 Conflict and Intervention in Timor-Leste 7 Public Finance
and State-building in Timor-Leste 8 Conflict and Intervention in
Afghanistan 9 Public Finance and State-building in Afghanistan Part III:
Conclusions and Implications 10 Conclusions 11 Beyond Good Governance