TY - BOOK ID - 78374326 TI - Making Sense of Governance AU - Hyden, Goran, AU - Court, Julius AU - Mease, Kenneth PY - 2022 SN - 1626373833 9781626373839 1588267660 9781588267665 PB - Boulder DB - UniCat KW - Comparative government KW - Comparative political systems KW - Comparative politics KW - Government, Comparative KW - Political systems, Comparative KW - Political science KW - Research. KW - Developing countries KW - Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78374326 AB - Although governance has been the focus of a considerable body of literature on democratic transitions and consolidation, data to support the claim that the concept is a useful one has been lacking. Now, however, Making Sense of Governance clearly shows the utility of research on governance, presenting empirical evidence from sixteen developing countries.The authors focus on six arenas: civil, political, and economic society and the executive, bureaucracy, and judiciary. Demonstrating conclusively for the first time that perceptions of governance by local stakeholders are realistic indicators of the nature and quality of a political regime, they also reveal the dynamic nature of governance and to what extent it correlates with socioeconomic variables.This comprehensive study is based on interviews in Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Tanzania, Thailand, and Togo. ER -