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EADI Global Development Series Hardback 9781137548511 Oct 2015 £68.00

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248 pp 216 mm x 138 mm

Social Research and Policy in the Development Arena Critical Encounters

Martin Doornbos

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Martin Doornbos is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands. His research interests have focused on the dynamics of state-society relations in Africa and India, the politics of resource allocation, and on questions of state collapse and post-conflict reconstruction.

'Professor Doornbos' book is an urgent read for both scholars of the development process and its in-the-field practitioners. Doornbos has worked extensively at the intersection of academic research and applied project implementation. Few scholars, if any, are as qualified to reflect on what happens when academic theory collides with the reality of a developing environment whose many realities may include inflexibility of policy, political rivalry, bureaucratic inertia and ethnic tensions. His book is an invaluable treatise on which academic ideas have a survival value and as a guidebook for the practitioner preparing to meet the real world of development practice.' - Michael F. Lofchie, UCLA, USA

'Professor Doornbos shares with us insights acquired from years of critical social and political research – in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Failed states, complex emergencies, post-conflict recovery and the provision of food security indicate the complex developmental and humanitarian themes that are dealt with – scrutinized in environments in which a multitude of local, national and international/multilateral actors are involved, representing different, often competing and conflicting perceptions and interests. Add to this research into statehood building and legitimacy in the most challenging social, economic and political environments. This tour de force provides the reader with unique insights into the many challenges involved in development – and in dilemmas related to the development-research nexus. Scholars and practitioners will want this book easily available in their bookshelves.' – Olav Stokke, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway About the book The author analyzes the research-policy nexus in development studies, highlighting reciprocal orientations and interactions between the domains of social research and of policy and politics. The study deals with instances where these domains are complementary and geared towards common objectives, but also with others marked by opposing premises. The underlying idea is not to arrive at any 'one best formula', as the interests and objectives of research and researchers on the one hand, and those of politics and policy-makers on the other, are often vastly different and based on contrasting rationales. Instead, Martin Doornbos aims at illustrating potential sources of tension between these respective spheres, tracing the silent battles waged between them while also recognizing instances where research has played a meaningful role vis-à-vis policy - for instance, in bridging informational gaps towards policy deliberation or in assessing policy outcomes. This book therefore seeks to provide a better understanding of the conditions determining conflict and cooperation between policy and social research.

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CONTENTS Introduction 1. The Research-Policy Nexus: Multiple Encounters, Multiple Frictions 2. Conceptualizing African statehood and legitimacy: shifting positions in the research-politics nexus 3. A 'Negotiating Statehood' Perspective: Implications for Policy? 4. Research-led Policy Deliberation in Post-conflict Contexts: Searching to Overcome Institutional Gaps 5. Complex emergencies, food security and the need for research-based policy responses 6. The Limits of Independent Policy Research: Analysing the EEC–India Dairy Aid Nexus; with Piet Terhal 7. Academia–Politics Collisions in the Aftermath of a Coup: a Fijian Encounter 8. Reconnoitring a Political Microcosm: First Fieldwork in Ankole, Uganda 9. Researching Development Policy and Politics: A Personal Retrospect and Itinerary Conclusion: development studies in retrospect