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Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development community in recent years as powerfully as the idea of a 'political settlement'. At its most ambitious, 'political settlements analysis' (PSA) promises to explain why conflicts occur and states collapse, the conditions for their successful rehabilitation, different developmental pathways from peace, and how to better fit development policy to country context. Yet not all is well in the world of PSA. Rival definitions of the term abound, there are disagreements about its scope and the way it should be used, a growing schism between conflict specialists and economists, basic concepts are ambiguous and little progress has been made on measurement. Political Settlements and Development consequently has three main aims: to argue for a revised definition of a political settlement, capable of unifying its diverse strands, and opening new opportunities for the analysis of conflict and development; to put the concept on a more solid theoretical and scientific footing, providing a method for measuring and categorising political settlements, while using new data to analyse the relationship between political settlements and development; and finally, to examine the implications for policymakers.
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Contents
PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND THEORY
1: The promise of political settlements analysis
2: The idea of a political settlement
3: Collective action problems and development: a typological theory of political settlements
PART TWO - MEASUREMENT AND TESTING
4: Measuring political settlements: constructing the PolSett dataset
5: Describing political settlement evolution in a single country: the case of South Africa
6: Analysing political settlements and development in four countries: Ghana, Guinea, Cambodia, and Rwanda
7: Testing the relations between political settlements, conflict, and development: a large-n analysis
PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS
8: Summary, policy implications, and future research
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