Perspectives on the retrospective: lessons from five decades of debate
✍ Scribed by Paul Collins; Brian Smith
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-2075
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✦ Synopsis
This article provides perspectives of the current and immediate past Editors of PAD on the retrospective papers contained in this special commemorative issue. Each and jointly, the six papers take stock of the cumulative experience and thinking promoted by PAD, particularly the core areas that still dominate: decentralization and local government (Allen), urban services and the market (Blore), NGOs (Hailey), devising institutions of governance (Warrington) and training (Clarke and Kirke-Green). The article assesses the papers in terms of the following. First, the papers carry a number of important lessons in terms of transfer of ideas and practice, continuity, impact and issue of convergence'. Second, possibilities are raised of alternative paradigms, the challenges of non-government' within governance and the importance for future agendas of addressing the problems of the poor. Institutionally speaking, pro-poor governance, from the point of view of a journal concerned with administration and management, can be divided into a number of spheres: constitutional, political, administrative and judicial. The article concludes with a PAD agenda on the threshold of past and future, in terms of the orientation, scope and tenor of the journal over the next 50 years.