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Safer Field Research in the Social Sciences

A Guide to Human and Digital Security in Hostile Environments

By: Jannis Grimm,Kevin Koehler,Ellen M. Lust,Ilyas Saliba,Isabell Schierenbeck

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Safer Field Research in the Social Sciences

A Guide to Human and Digital Security in Hostile Environments

By: Jannis Grimm,Kevin Koehler,Ellen M. Lust,Ilyas Saliba,Isabell Schierenbeck

Exploring the challenges and risks of social science fieldwork, this book shares best practice for conducting research in hostile environments and pragmatic advice to help you make good decisions. Drawing on the authors’ experiences in regions of conflict and grounded in real-world examples, the book: · Provides practical guidance on important considerations like choosing a research question in sensitive contexts · Gives advice on data and digital security to help you minimize fieldwork risk in a contemporary research environment · Offers tools and templates you can use to develop a tailored security framework Building your understanding of the challenges of on-the-ground research, this book empowers you to meet the challenges of your research landscape head on.

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1529723523

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9781529723526

Everyday Choices

The Role of Competing Authorities and Social Institutions in Politics and Development

By: Ellen M. Lust

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Everyday Choices

The Role of Competing Authorities and Social Institutions in Politics and Development

By: Ellen M. Lust

Scholars and practitioners seek development solutions through the engineering and strengthening of state institutions. Yet, the state is not the only or the primary arena shaping how citizens, service providers and state officials engage in actions that constitute politics and development. These individuals are members of religious orders, ethnic communities, and other groups that make claims on them, creating incentives that shape their actions. Recognizing how individuals experience these claims and view the choices before them is essential to understanding political processes and development outcomes. This Element establishes a framework elucidating these forces, which is key to knowledge accumulation, designing future research and effective programming. Taking an institutional approach, this Element explains how the salience of arenas of authority associated with various communities and the nature of social institutions within them affect politics and development. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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144

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Cambridge University Press

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1009306138

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9781009306133

Trust, Voice, and Incentives

Learning from Local Success Stories in Service Delivery in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Hana Brixi,Ellen Lust,Michael Woolcock

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Trust, Voice, and Incentives

Learning from Local Success Stories in Service Delivery in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Hana Brixi,Ellen Lust,Michael Woolcock

This report examines the role of incentives, trust, and engagement as critical determinants of service delivery performance in MENA countries. Focusing on education and health, the report illustrates how the weak external and internal accountability undermines policy implementation and service delivery performance and how such a cycle of poor performance can be counteracted. Case studies of local success reveal the importance of both formal and informal accountability relationships and the role of local leadership in inspiring and institutionalizing incentives toward better service delivery performance. Enhancing services for MENA citizens requires forging a stronger social contract among public servants, citizens, and service providers while empowering communities and local leaders to find 'best fit' solutions. Learning from the variations within countries, especially the outstanding local successes, can serve as a solid basis for new ideas and inspiration for improving service delivery. Such learning may help the World Bank Group and other donors as well as national and local leaders and civil society, in developing ways to enhance the trust, voice, and incentives for service delivery to meet citizens’ needs and expectations.

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342

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World Bank Publications

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1464804575

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9781464804571

Structuring Conflict in the Arab World

Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions

By: Ellen Lust-Okar

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Structuring Conflict in the Arab World

Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions

By: Ellen Lust-Okar

This book examines how ruling elites manage and manipulate their political opposition in the Middle East. In contrast to discussions of government-opposition relations that focus on how rulers either punish or co-opt opponents, this book focuses on the effect of institutional rules governing the opposition. It argues rules determining who is and is not allowed to participate in the formal political arena affect not only the relationships between opponents and the state, but also between various opposition groups. This affects the dynamics of opposition during prolonged economic crises. It also shapes the informal strategies that ruling elites use toward opponents. The argument is presented using a formal model of government-opposition relations. It is demonstrated in the cases of Egypt under Presidents Nasir, Sadat and Mubarek; Jordan under King Husayn; and Morocco under King Hasan II.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139442732

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Safer Field Research in the Social Sciences

Safer Field Research in the Social Sciences

Everyday Choices

Everyday Choices

Trust, Voice, and Incentives

Trust, Voice, and Incentives

Structuring Conflict in the Arab World

Structuring Conflict in the Arab World

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