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Democratization and Market Reform in Developing and Transitional Countries

This book explores the pivotal role of think tanks in the democratization and economic reform movements by evaluating their overall effect on the transformation process in developing and transitional countries around the world.

James G. McGann assesses 23 think tanks, located in nine countries and four regions of the world: Chile, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Botswana, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, that have most impacted political and economic transitions in their respective countries. The author examines the role they played in the process of democratization and market reform during the late 1980s and 1990s and identifies the importance of think tanks in these processes by evaluating their overall effect on the policy-making process. He argues that in the early stages of a transition from an authoritarian regime to an open and democratic society the activities of think tanks are especially critical, and they have provided a civil-society safety net to support these fragile democracies.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, democratization, development, economic development, and civil society.

James G. McGann is the Assistant Director of the International Relations Program and Director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania; he is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia. He has served as President for 25 years of McGann Associates, which specializes in the challenges facing think tanks, policy-makers, international organizations, and philanthropic institutions. Dr McGann has served as a consultant and advisor to the World Bank, United Nations, United States Agency for International Development, Soros, Hewlett and Gates Foundations. His books include Competition for Dollars: Scholars and Influence in the Public Policy Research Industry and Think Tanks and Policy Advice in the US: Academics, Advisors and Advocates (the latter also published by Routledge).

Routledge research in comparative politics

1 Democracy and Post-communism
Political change in the post-communist world
Graeme Gill

2 Sub-state Nationalism
A comparative analysis of institutional design
Edited by Helena Catt and Michael Murphy

3 Reward for High Public Office
Asian and Pacific Rim States
Edited by Christopher Hood and B. Guy Peters

4 Social Democracy and Labour Market Policy
Developments in Britain and Germany
Knut Roder

5 Democratic Revolutions
Asia and Eastern Europe
Mark R. Thompson

6 Democratization
A comparative analysis of 170 countries
Tatu Vanhanen

7 Determinants of the Death Penalty
A comparative study of the world
Carsten Anckar

8 How Political Parties Respond to Voters
Interest aggregation revisited
Edited by Kay Lawson and Thomas Poguntke

9 Women, Quotas and Politics
Edited by Drude Dahlerup

10 Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict
Challenging the nation-state
Haldun Glalp

11 The Politics of Womens Interests
New comparative and international perspectives
Edited by Louise Chappell and Lisa Hill

12 Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies
Social capital, institutions and politics
Edited by Mariano Torcal and Jos Ramn Montero

13 Representing Women in Parliament
A comparative study
Edited by Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble

14 Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe
Edited by Hans- Dieter Klingemann, Dieter Fuchs and Jan Zielonka

15 Social Capital and Associations in European Democracies
A comparative analysis
Edited by William A. Maloney and Sigrid Roteutscher

16 Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies
A comparative analysis
Edited by Jan van Deth, Jos Ramn Montero and Anders Westholm

17 The Politics of Foundations
A comparative analysis
Edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Siobhan Daly

18 Party Policy in Modern Democracies
Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver

19 Semi-Presidentialism Outside Europe
A comparative study
Edited by Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup

20 Comparative Politics
The principal-agent perspective
Jan-Erik Lane

21 The Political Power of Business
Structure and information in public policy-making
Patrick Bernhagen

22 Womens Movements
Flourishing or in abeyance?
Edited by Marian Sawer and Sandra Grey

23 Consociational Theory
McGarry and OLeary and the Northern Ireland conflict
Edited by Rupert Taylor

24 The International Politics of Democratization
Comparative perspectives
Edited by Nuno Severiano Teixeira

25 Post-communist Regime Change
A comparative study
Jrgen Mller

26 Social Democracy in Power
The capacity to reform
Wolfgang Merkel, Alexander Petring, Christian Henkes and Christoph Egle

27 The Rise of Regionalism
Causes of regional mobilization in Western Europe
Rune Dahl Fitjar

28 Party Politics in the Western Balkans
Edited by Vra Stojarov and Peter Emerson

29 Democratization and Market Reform in Developing and Transitional Countries
Think tanks as catalysts
James G. McGann

Democratization and Market Reform in Developing and Transitional Countries

Think tanks as catalysts

James G. McGann

First published 2010
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2010 James G. McGann

Typeset in Times by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
McGann, James G.
Democratization and market reform in developing and transitional countries: think tanks as catalysts/James G. McGann.
p. cm. (Routledge research in comparative politics; 29)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. DemocratizationDeveloping countries. 2. Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Developing countries. 3. Developing countries Economic policy. 4. DemocratizationDeveloping countriesCase studies. 5. Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Developing countriesCase studies. 6. Developing countriesEconomic policyCase studies. 7. Policy sciences. 8. Research institutes. I. Title.
JF60.M385 2009
332'.0415091724dc22

2009021099

ISBN10: 0-415-54738-5 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-86532-4 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-54738-3 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-86532-3 (ebk)

Contents

PART I Theoretical framework

PART II Case studies

This book is the result of several years of research that was designed to explore the role that think tanks played in the political and economic reform that took place in many countries around the world after the end of the Cold War. This was no small feat and I was fortunate to be able to enlist the help of scholars, public and private donors, think- tank directors and IGOs to help identify organizations that were thought to have played a pivotal role in the democratization and market-reform process that took place over two decades ago. I want to thank all the individuals and organizations that recommended case studies for the book and all the organizations that provided background information for the cases. These contributions were essential to the success of this research project.

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