| dc.contributor.author | MacLean, Sandra Jean. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:34:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1997 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1997 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINQ24754 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55492 | |
| dc.description | The increased importance of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in development theory and practice over the last quarter of the twentieth century has significant implications for the promotion of sustainable democratic development. However, there are alternative perspectives on how the latter might be achieved and what roles civil societies (and NGOs within) may play in the process. | en_US |
| dc.description | Part I of the dissertation argues that the global neoliberal order which currently dominates the development policy agenda holds a narrow instrumentalist view of democracy and a market-oriented approach to decision-making which is unlikely to promote sustainable political or economic development. Instead, the current conjuncture requires reconceptualisations, policy revisions and institutional changes that take account of the interrelatedness of development, democracy ("participatory" or "developmentalist" as opposed to "protective" versions) and security ("human" as opposed merely to "national" or "military"). Further, the emergence of a "transnational civil society" is contributing to this reformulation, and while the pluralist community of NGOs plays no fixed or consistent role in the process, the idea of partnership, and the formation of certain networks among some NGOs contributes to a new global politics which could lead to a more humane governance. | en_US |
| dc.description | In Part II, a case study of the developmental propensities of Canadian-Zimbabwean NGO "partnerships" explores the possibilities and problems which exist in national, regional and transnational contexts. It concludes that the neoliberal and state-centric ideologies which currently dominate in bi-lateral programmes of the international aid regime tend to impede the formation of system-transforming North-South partnerships. However, the establishment of various forms of connections among NGOs at local, regional and transnational levels and their advocacy in global fora have some potential to alter prevailing conceptions and relations of citizenship, community and governance into the twenty-first century. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1997. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political Science, General. | en_US |
| dc.title | NGO partnerships and sustainable democratic development with lessons from a Canadian-Zimbabwean case study. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
