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How Does Development Policy Change (or Not)?

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In this chapter we ask how does development policy change (or not)? And how will it change (or not) in light of the EPICs noted in Chapter 1 and their particular impact on policy and policy processes. We begin with defining policy and policy processes. We then consider models of policy change that can inform identification of the drivers of (and resistances to) policy change via actors and networks, context and institutions and policy narratives, ideas and storylines.1 We then use this approach to assess trends in policy processes in three broad policy arenas relevant to Part II of our book — notably to growth and globalisation via global market integration, aid and public services.

Truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it (Kuhn, 1962:150).

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  1. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

    Andy Sumner (Research Fellow)

  2. University of East London, UK

    Meera Tiwari (Head of International Development Studies)

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Sumner, A., Tiwari, M. (2009). How Does Development Policy Change (or Not)?. In: After 2015: International Development Policy at a Crossroads. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234680_4

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