Redefining Development fora New Generation:
Redefining Development fora New Generation:
A Political Economy Analysis
The events of the Arab Spring starkly illustrate that average economic growth rates do not constitute development and can even be misleading. Development is defined here as empowerment, starting with restructuring the top of the political system, the equivalent of the body's central nervous system. Empowerment and the primacy of inclusionary decision-making are antithetical to the present neo-patrimonial mode of governance. They affirm the primacy of coordination and partnership in managing the affairs of state and society, in contrast to a control-based model that relies on coercion and compulsion. Empowerment is also at the core of the emerging democratic transition. The methodology adopted here is based on a medical analogy: get the diagnosis and the prescription right-major restructuring-then initiate the change by overcoming the chronic adaptation deficit at the top of the regime. This analogy forms the basis of the book's analytical framework.
Keywords: development-as-empowerment, political economy framework, legitimacy, adaptation deficit, neo-patrimonial governance
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