Making reform work: institutions, dispositions, and the improving health of Bangladesh

Faguet, Jean-Paul ORCID: 0000-0002-7188-0098 and Ali, Zulfiqar (2009) Making reform work: institutions, dispositions, and the improving health of Bangladesh. World Development, 37 (1). pp. 208-218. ISSN 0305-750X

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Abstract

We examine whether local governance can improve social development empirically, using good and bad cases of public health outcomes in Bangladesh. We explore the institutional underpinnings of service provision, digging down beneath the “rules of the game” to analyze the beliefs, understandings, and dispositions that drive social behavior. Changes in deep social attitudes led to improvements in social indicators. Regional variation in health outcomes is explained by the presence or absence of a dense web of relationships that enmeshed reformers in local systems of authority and legitimacy, strengthening their actions and making local society more susceptible to change.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03057...
Additional Information:	© 2008 Elsevier
Divisions:	STICERD International Development
Subjects:	J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2024 11:13
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2024 21:33
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/124766

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