This volume starts from the premise that development policy is about interventions involving institutional arrangements. Such arrangements impact on socio-economic processes, but differentially so, thus often creating 'winners' and 'losers'. By implication this causes many development interventions to become contested terrain. Sponsoring agencies, intermediaries and different categories among the 'target' groups all have different stakes in institutional interventions, and as such they may perceive them in highly contrasting terms. Patterns of differentiation have been basic to the formulation and engineering of innumerable organizational forms, resource allocation structures, rules of access and other institutional innovations. This calls for an unravelling of the ways in which institutional designs may give shape to socio-political relationships and processes, define the parameters for coping with conflicting demands, or privilege specific client categories through key selective criteria. In short, this book's concern is with the political element in the design of development institutions and interventions.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables List of Maps Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on Co-Authors Introduction PART 1: DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSES AND THE INSTITUTIONAL FACTOR Changing Perspectives on State and Society in the Third World Political Development: the Search for Criteria 'Good Governance', Political Conditionalities and Externally-Led Institutional Reform PART 2: INSTITUTIONAL INCORPORATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY Institutional Incorporation: Debating Cultural 'Receptivity' to Change Institutionalization and Institutional Decline: The Neo-Traditionalization of Ankole Kingship PART 3: LAND, PASTORALISM AND THE STATE IN EASTERN AFRICA: INSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTIONS Land Tenure, State Intervention and Political Conflict in Southwest Uganda Ranching and Scheming: A Case Study of the Ankole Ranching Scheme (with M.Lofaine) State Policies and the Predicaments of Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa (with J.Markakis) The Question of Boundaries and Institutional Alternatives: The case of the Ogaden PART 4: DAIRY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: INSTITUTIONS AND RESOURCE STRATEGIES Premises and Impacts of International Dairy Aid: Institutional Interest and the Politics of Evaluation (with P.van Stuijvenberg and M.Mitra) Sustainability, Technology and Corporate Interest in India's Modern Dairy Sector Conclusion: Analysing Institutional Interventions: Some Final Reflections Bibliography Index