Corbett Australia's Foreign Aid Dilemma

Humanitarian aspirations confront democratic legitimacy
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-52348-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Humanitarian Studies

The Australian aid program faces a fundamental dilemma: how, in the absence of deep popular support, should it generate the political legitimacy required to safeguard its budget and administering institution?

Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma tells the story of the actors who have grappled with this question over 40 years. It draws on extensive interviews and archival material to uncover how 'court politics' shapes both aid policy and administration. The lesson for scholars and practitioners is that any holistic understanding of the development enterprise must account for the complex relationship between the aid program of individual governments and the domestic political and bureaucratic contexts in which it is embedded. If the way funding is administered shapes development outcomes, then understanding the 'court politics' of aid matters.

This comprehensive text will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of politics and foreign policy as well as development professionals in Australia and across the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corbett, Jack

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

Introduction

Part One

1. The Post-War Period and the Whitlam Government

2. The Fraser Government

3. The Hawke-Keating Governments

4. The Howard Government

5. The Rudd-Gillard Governments

6. The Abbott-Turnbull Governments

Part Two

7. The National Story and Policy Legitimacy

8. Professionalisation and Technical Legitimacy

9. Managing Risk and Administrative Legitimacy

Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Jack Corbett is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Southampton, UK; Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University’s Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs; and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia.