Local State Institutional Reforms in Ghana: Actors, Legitimacy and the Unfulfilled Promise of Participatory Development

In: Bayreuther Studien zu Politik und Gesellschaft in Afrika v.3

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Cover -- 1. Introduction: Institution-Building and Change -- 1.1 Institution-Building in the International Development System -- 1.2 The Context and Problem: Local State Institutional Reforms in Ghana -- 1.3 Propositions in the Study -- 1.4 Objective of the Study -- 1.5 Research Questions -- 1.6 Rationale: Why Study Local State Institution- Building in Ghana? -- 1.7 Delimitations of the Study -- 1.8 Organization of the Sections of the Study -- 1.9 Concluding Remarks -- 2. Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis of Institution- Building and Change -- 2.1 The Rules and Players of Institutional Change -- 2.1.1 The agency-structure question -- 2.1.2 Defining institutions and organizations -- 2.2 Sociological Institutionalism and Change Programmes -- 2.2.1 Neo-institutionalism and the diffusion of change ideas -- 2.2.2 Entrepreneurs and institutional ideas -- 2.2.3 Research in neo-institutional analysis of change -- 2.2.4 Critique of the neo-institutional approach -- 2.3 Actor-Centered Institutionalism -- 2.3.1 Actor-centered institutionalism and local political reforms -- 2.3.2 Synthesizing the sociological and actor-centered institutionalisms -- 2.4 Conceptual Framework for Analysing Local Institutional Change -- 2.4.1 Constructed legitimacy within institutional reform programmes -- 2.4.2 Legitimacy rhetoric and institution-building enticements -- 2.4.3 Levels of analysis in the framework -- 2.5 Concluding Remarks -- 3. Methodology: The Empirical Study Design and Data -- 3.1 Framing the Basis of Knowledge in the Study -- 3.2 The Multi-Methods Design for the Study -- 3.3 Contextualizing the Study: Multi-Level and Multi-Site Locations -- 3.3.1 Study organizations and unit of analysis -- 3.3.2 Sources of evidence -- 3.4 Study Actors and their Characteristics -- 3.4.1 The sample and selection strategy

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Local State Institutional Reforms in Ghana: Actors, Legitimacy and the Unfulfilled Promise of Participatory Development

Sabbi, Matthew

Sabbi, Matthew

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This study examines local institutional reforms frequently conceived as a panacea for accountable and responsive local institutions that engender change and prosperity in Ghana. Currently, this assumption is often made without recourse to how policymakers pursue these institutional changes in everyday situations. While the link between local democracy and poverty reduction remains largely rhetorical, it still persists because no clear distinction is made between local political reforms, local autonomy and local socio-economic change. Using an actor-centered institutional framework, this study offers critical insights into how local policymakers take advantage of institutional reforms to advance their own interests at the expense of specific local priorities and socio-economic change.Matthew Sabbi is a Fritz Thyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chair of Development Sociology, University of Bayreuth, Germany. His research focuses on the analysis of local political reforms and local public policy in the Global South particularly in Ghana.

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