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This edited collection proposes a common good approach to development theory and practice. Rather than focusing on the outcomes or conditions of development, the contributors concentrate on the quality of development processes, suggesting that a common good dynamic is key in order to trigger development.
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Common Good Approach to Development: Collective Dynamics of Development Processes
2022, Open Book Publishers
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1800644043 9781800644045
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A Common Good Approach to Development: Collective Dynamics of Development Processes
2022, Open Book Publishers
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Common Good Approach to Development: Collective Dynamics of Development Processes
2022, Open Book Publishers
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1800644051 9781800644052
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Intro
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Research Question
2. Why Do We Need a Common Good Approach?
3. A Common Good Approach to Development. Where Do We Stand?
4. Does a Common Good Approach to Development Undermines the Plurality of Modern Societies?
5. Why Measure Common Good Dynamics?
6. Structure of the Book
References
PART I: A COMMON GOOD APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT
Introduction to Part I
Aim of Part I
To Whom Is it of Interest?
Why Does it Matter?
1. The Theoretical Framework: Common Goods and Systems of Common Goods
Reasserting the Notion of the Common Good in the Twenty-First Century
1. The Common Good Belongs to the Sphere of Action
I.A Notion Implicit in All Public Action
II. The Need to Act in Common: The Community Created by Common Action
III. The Elements of Common Action
2. The Vocabulary of the Common Good
I. The Social Good and the Shared Value of the Common Benefit
II. The Good of Order and the Common Rationality it Creates
III. A Specific Common Good
IV. The Nexus of Common Goods
3. Aspiring to the Universal Common Good
4. The Common Good as the Dialectic of Politics
I. The Conjunction of the Individual Good and the Good of the Community
II. Wanting the Common Good
III. The Dialectical Dynamic of the Common Good
Conclusion: The Quality of Common Good Dynamics
References
2. From Theory to Practice: A Matrix of Common Good Dynamics
Part I: The Empirical Foundations of the Matrix
I. Commons and Commoning
II. Community-Based or Community-Driven Development Programmes
III. Empirical Elements of the Matrix of Common Good Dynamics
Part II: Toward a Matrix of Common Good Dynamics
I. What Does the Matrix Capture? A Few Preliminary Remarks
II. The Five Dimensions of the Matrix
The Definition and Systemic Function of Each Dimension
What Do We Mean by Collective Agency Freedom?
And What about Governance?
Justice as a Normative Driver of Common Good Dynamics
The Dimension of Stability
The Humanity Dimension
III. A List of Basic Common Goods and Core Habitus
A List of Basic Common Goods
Which Set of Core Habitus?
IV. A Relational Normativity: A Tool to Analyse Realities and Tell the Stories of Common Good Dynamics
Conclusions
References
3. Design and Reflection on the Metric of Common Dynamics
Introduction
1. The Theoretical Foundations of the Survey
2. The Design of the Survey
3. The Dimensions of a Common Good Metric and Its Indicators
I. Justice
II. Stability
III. Governance
IV. Collective Agency Freedom
V. Humanity
4. Discussion and Future Improvements
Conclusion
References
Appendix
PART II: DISCUSSING THE NORMATIVE ELEMENTS OF COMMON GOOD DYNAMICS
Introduction to Part II
Aim of the Part II
To Whom Is it of Interest?
Why Does it Matter?
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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