How Change Happens

Duncan Green (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-882516-6 (ISBN)

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Drawing on the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world's largest social justice INGOs, this book tests ideas on 'How Change Happens' and sets out the latest thinking on how citizens and others can drive progressive change.

Society is full of would-be 'change agents'-campaigners, government officials, enlightened business people, engaged intellectuals-set on improving public services, reforming laws and regulations, guaranteeing human rights, achieving a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, and greater recognition for any number of issues. Drawing on many first-hand examples and numerous new case studies and interviews with grassroots activists and organizations around the world, as well as Oxfam's unrivalled global experience, this important book answers the question: how does change happen and how can we-governments, organizations, businesses, leaders, campaigners, employees, and ordinary citizens-make a difference?

Duncan Green is Oxfam GB's Senior Strategic Adviser. He also teaches on international development at the London School of Economics, where he is a Professor in Practice. His blog is one of the most widely read on international development, and is named after his book From Poverty to Power (2nd ed., 2012). How Change Happens contains the accumulated experience of years spent engaged in the field, researching and writing about reducing poverty and combating injustice and, as the author says, trying to, "do justice to the complexity of the world, while still believing there is a story about how it can be changed for the better."

Ha-Joon Chang: Foreword
Introduction
Part I: A Power and Systems Approach
1: Systems Thinking Changes Everything
2: Power Lies at the Heart of Change
3: Shifts in Social Norms often Underpin Change
Case Study: The Chiquitanos of Bolivia
Part II: Institutions and the Importance of History
4: How States Evolve
5: The Machinery of Law
6: Accountability, Political Parties, and the Media
7: How the International System Shapes Change
8: Transnational Transnational Corporations as Drivers and Targets of Change
Case Study: The December 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Part III: What Activists Can (and Can't) Do
9: Citizen Activism and Civil Society
10: Leaders and Leadership
11: The Power of Advocacy
Part IV: Pulling it All Together
12: A Power and Systems Approach to Making Change Happen
Conclusion
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.04.2018
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 217 mm
Gewicht	392 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-19-882516-1 / 0198825161
ISBN-13	978-0-19-882516-6 / 9780198825166
Zustand	Neuware