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Aning, K. (2007) 'Security, the War on Terror and Official Development Assistance', Theme Paper, North-South Institute (link to website)

Arndt, C., Oman, C. (2006) Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators', OECD Development Centre (link to website)

Bano, M. (2008) 'Dangerous Correlations: Aid's Impact on NGO's Performance and Ability to Mobilize Members in Pakistan', World Development, 36(11), pp. 2297-2313, Elsevier. (link to website)

Barnett, A. (2004) 'From Research to Poverty Reducing Innovation', Draft Policy Brief, NSI (link to website)

Barron, P., Burke, A. (2008) 'Supporting Peace in Aceh: Development agencies and international involvement', East West Center, Washington, Policy Paper 2008 (link to website)

Bates, R. (2001) Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development, New York: Norton (link to website)

Bird, K. (2008) 'The Political Economy of Pro-Poor Growth: The challenge of making growth pro-poor', Briefing Paper 35, ODI (link to website)

Birdsall, N. (ed.) (2008) The White House and the World: A global development agenda for the next U.S. president' (Part1) (link to website)

Birdsall, N. (ed.) (2008) The White House and the World: A global development agenda for the next U.S. president' (Part2) (link to website)

Bjuremalm, H. (2006) 'Power Analysis - Experiences and Challenges', Sida (link to website)

Booth, D., et al. (2008) 'Good Governance, Aid Modalities and Poverty Reduction: From better theory to better practice', Final Synthesis Report of Research Project (RP-05-GG) for ABIA, London: ODI (link to website)

Booth, D., et al. (2006) 'Drivers of Change and Development in Malawi', Working Paper No. 261, London: ODI (link to website)

Booth, D., et al. (2005) 'What Are the Drivers of Change in Ghana?', Policy Brief No. 1, London: ODI (link to website)

Booth, D., Crook, R., Gyimah-Boadi, E., Killick, T, Luckham, R, Boateng, N (2005) The Middle Classes and their Role in Development, ODI/CDD (link to website)

Burke, A. (2008) "Peacebuilding and Rebuilding at Ground Level: Practical constraints and policy objectives", Conflict, Security & Development, 8(1), pp. 47-69. (link to website)

Burke, A., Mulakala, A. (2008) "Aiding Peace? An insider's view of donor support for the Sri Lanka peace process, 2000 - 2005", Goodhand, J. et al. (eds.) Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka: Caught in the peace trap?

Cammack, D., Thomson, A. (2008) 'Power Analysis and Evaluation: The case of Norwegian development support to Zambia', OPM Briefing Notes (link to website)

Centre for the Future State (2005) Signposts to More Effective States: Responding to governance challenges in developing countries', Institute of Development Studies (link to website)

Chang, H-J (2002) Kicking Away the Ladder - Development Strategy in Historical Perspective, Anthem: London

Chase, R.S, Anjum, A. (2008) Demand for Good Governance Stocktaking Report: Initiatives Supporting Demand for Good Governance (DFGG) across World Bank Group Sectors and Regions, World Bank (link to website)

Cox, M., et al. (2007) 'The Unfinished State: Drivers of change in Vanuatu', Study commissioned by AusAID (link to website)

Crook, R. (2005) The Role of Traditional Institutions in Political Change and Development, ODI/CDD (link to website)

Crook, R. (2005) The Role of Faith-based Associations in Political Change and Development, ODI/CDD (link to website)

DAC/GOVNET (2008) 'Governance, Taxation and Accountability: Issues and practices', DAC Reference Document, DAC Guidelines and Reference Series (link to website)

DAC/GOVNET (2008) Donor Approaches to Governance Assessments: Guiding principles for enhanced impact, usage and harmonization' - Final Draft' (link to website)

Dahl-Ostergaard, et al. (2005) Lessons Learned on the Use of Power and Drivers of Change Analyses in Development Cooperation', Review Comissioned by the OECD DAC Network on Governance (GOVNET) (link to website)

de Haan, A., Everest Phillips, M. (2007) Can New Aid Modalities Handle Politics, UNU-WIDER (link to website)

de Renzio, P., Mulley, S. (2006) 'Donor Coordination and Good Governance: Donor-led and recipient-led approaches', Managing Aid Dependency Project, Oxford (link to website)

DFID (2009) Political Economy Analysis - How to Note: A DFID Practice Paper, DFID (link to website)

DFID (2008) 'How-To Note: Country Governance Analysis', DFID Practice Paper (link to website)

DFID (2008) States in Development: Understanding State-building: DFID Practice Paper (link to website)

DFID (2007) 'How- To Note: Country governance analysis', DFID Practice Paper (link to website)

DFID (2007) 'How-To Note: Country governance analysis' Annex 1: Questions you might want to ask, DFID Practice Paper (link to website)

DFID (2007) 'How-To Note: Country governance analysis' Annex 2: Useful international governance analyses, DFID Practice Paper (link to website)

DFID (2007) 'How-To Note: Country governance analysis' Annex 4: Signposts to other useful guidance, DFID Practice Paper (link to website)

DFID (2007) 'Briefing: Understanding the Politics of the Budget: What drives change in the budget process?', DFID Practice Paper (link to website)

DFID, (2006) 'Report from the Africa Growth Conference: 5 - 7 July 2006', DFID Practice Paper (link to website)

DFID (2005) 'Briefing: Using drivers of change to improve aid effectiveness', DFID Practice Paper (link to website)

DFID (2005) 'How-To Note: Lessons learned - planning and undertaking a DOC study', DFID Practice Paper (link to website)

DFID (2002) Conducting Conflict Assessments: Guidance notes', Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department (CHAD), DFID (link to website)

Dietsche, E. (2003) 'The Political Economy of Policy Decisions: Why good technical reform designs don't always work', Oxford Policy Institute (link to website)

Duncan, A., et al. (2003) 'Zambia: Drivers of pro-poor change - an overview', Full-length version, Oxford Policy Management (link to website)

Duncan, A., et al. (2003) 'Zambia: Drivers of pro-poor change - an overview', Short version, Oxford Policy Management (link to website)

Duncan, A., et al. (2002) 'Bangladesh: Supporting the drivers of pro-poor change', Report for DFID (link to website)

Duncan, A., et al. (2002) 'Bangladesh: Supporting the drivers of pro-poor change - Summary Version', Report for DFID (link to website)

Esman, M., Herring, R. (eds.) (2001) Carrots, Sticks and Ethnic Conflict: Rethinking development assistance, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Everest-Phillips, M. (2008) 'Business Taxation as State-building in Developing Countries: Reflections from the DFID/FIAS tax reform programme': South Africa Conference 28-29 August 2008, International Journal of Regulation and Governance, 8(2), pp. 123?154 (link to website)

Ferguson, J. (1994) The Antipolitics Machine: "Development", depolitization and bureaucratic power in Lesotho, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota

Fine, B (2008) 'Development as Zombieconomics in the Age of Neo-Liberalism': 35th anniversary conference for the Center for International Development Issues, CIDIN, September 2008, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (link to website)

Frerks, G., Klem, B. (2006) Conditioning Peace among Protagonists: A study into the use of peace conditionalities in the Sri Lankan Peace Process', Conflict Research Unit, The Hague, Clingendael Institute (link to website)

Fritz, V., Rocha Menocal, A. (2006) '(Re)building Developmental States: From theory to practice', Working Paper 271, ODI (link to website)

Gaventa, J. (2006) Finding the Spaces for Change: A Power Analysis, IDS Bulletin 37(6) (link to website)

Ghani, A., et al. (2005) 'Closing the Sovereignty Gap: An approach to statebuilding', ODI (link to website)

Glassman, A., et al. (1999) 'Political Analysis of Health Reform in the Dominican Republic', Health Policy and Planning (link to website)

Goodhand, J. (2001) 'A Synthesis Report: Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Nepal and Sri Lanka', Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, University of London (link to website)

Goodhand, J. (2001) 'Aid, Conflict and Peace Building in Sri Lanka', Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, University of London (link to website)

Goodhand, J., Atkinson, P. (2001) Conflict and Aid: Enhancing the Peacebuilding Impact of International Engagement: A synthesis of findings from Afghanistan, Liberia and Sri Lanka', International Alert: London (link to website)

Gray, H. (2007) 'Governance for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: Empirical evidence and new directions reviewed' (link to website)

Green, D. (2008) From Poverty to Power: How active citizens and effective states can change the world, Oxfam (link to website)

Grindle, M. (2005) 'Good Enough Governance Revisited: A report for DFID with reference to the Governance Target Strategy Paper, 2001' (link to website)

Hausman, R., et al. (2005) 'Growth Diagnostics', John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (link to website)

Hermes, N., Lensink, R. (2001) Special Issue on Changing the Conditions for Development Aid, Journal of Development Studies, 37(6) (link to website)

Hettne, B. (1996) Ethnicity and Development: An elusive relationship' in Dwyer, D. and Drakakis-Smith, D. (eds.) Ethnicity and Development: Geographical perspectives., Chichester: John Wiley

Hickey, S. (2006) 'The Politics of What Works in Reducing Chronic Poverty: A synthesis report for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands', CPRC Working Paper 91 (link to website)

Hodges, T., Tibana, R. (2004) Political Economy of the Budget in Mozambique' (link to website)

Horowitz, D. (1985) Ethnic Groups in Conflict, London: California University Press

Hulme, D. (2007) 'The Making of the Millenium Development Goals: Human development meets results-based management in an imperfect world', Working Paper 16, Brooks World Poverty Institute (link to website)

International Development Department (ID (2006) 'Joint Evaluation of General Budget Support 1994-2004. Synthesis Report', DFID (link to website)

Kaufman, D., Kraay, A. (2007) 'On Measuring Governance: Framing issues for debate': Jan 11th 2007 Roundtable on Measuring Governance, World Bank Institute and the Development Economics Vice-Presidency of The World Bank (link to website)

Keefer, P. (2007) World Bank Country Economic Memorandum Ghana: Meeting the Challenge of Accelerated and Shared Growth Volume III, World Bank Report No. 40934-GH. (link to website)

Keefer, P. (2004) 'A Review of the Political Economy of Governance: From property rights to voice', World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3315 (link to website)

Keefer, P. (date unknown) 'Clientilism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies', World Bank Research Digest (link to website)

Khan, M. (date unknown) 'The State and Economic Development: What role, what risks?', Powerpoint Presentation (link to website)

Khan, M. (date unknown) 'Governance, Economic Growth and Development since the 1960's: Background paper for World Economic and Social Survey 2006' (link to website)

Killick, T. (2005) The Politics of Ghana's Budgetary System', CDD/ODI Policy Brief No. 2 (link to website)

Killick, T., et al. (2005) 'Perfect Partners? The performance of programme aid partners in Mozambique 2004', Report to the Programme Aid Partners in Mozambique, London: DFID (link to website)

Kwon, S., Reich, M (2005) 'The Changing Process and Politics of Health Policy in Korea', Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 30 (6), Duke University Press (link to website)

Landell-Mills, P, Williams, G, Duncan, A (2007) Policy Practice Brief 1 - Tackling the Political Barriers to Development: The New Political Economy Perspective, The Policy Practice (link to website)

Leftwich, A. (2008) Developmental states, effective states and poverty reduction: The primacy of politics, UNRISD (link to website)

Leftwich, A., (2007) 'The Political Approach to Institutional Formation, Maintenance and Change: A literature review essay', IPPG Discussion Paper Series No. 14, DFID (link to website)

Leftwich, A. (2001) States of Development, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers

Leftwich, A. (1993) "Bringing Politics Back In: Towards a model of the developmental state", Journal of Development Studies, 31(3) (link to website)

Mathews, A., et al. (2006) 'Policy Coherence for Development', Research Series Report No. 1., Dublin: ABIA

Moncrieffe, J., Luttrell, C. (2005) 'An Analytical Framework for Understanding the Political Economy of Sectors and Policy Arenas' (link to website)

Moore, M., Unsworth, S. (2007) 'How Does Taxation Affect the Quality of Governance?', IDS Policy Briefing, Issue 34 (link to website)

Moore, M. (1993) "Failing to Learn from the East", IDS Bulletin, 21(1) (link to website)

Moore, M. (1990) "Economic Liberalization Versus Political Pluralism in Sri Lanka?", Modern Asian Studies, 24(2), pp. 341-383

Moore, M., Unsworth, S. (date unknown) 'Britain's New White Paper: Making governance work for the poor', Review of Eliminating World Poverty: Making Governance Work for the Poor - A White Paper on International Development. By the Secretary of State for International Delopment. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 2006. 132 pp. (link to website)

Navdi, K., Robinson, M. (2003) 'Pakistan Drivers of Change Study: Synthesis and policy implications', Institute of Development Studies Paper (link to website)

Ng'ethe, N., et al. (2004) 'How Can Donors Promote Pro-Poor Change in Kenya? An analysis of drivers of change', Summary Report, Prepared for DFID, Kenya (link to website)

North, D., et al. (2008) Governance, Growth and Development Decision-Making, Washington: World Bank (link to website)

North, D., et al. (2006) 'A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History', NBER Working Paper Series (link to website)

North, D. (1993) 'Douglas C. North - Nobel Prize Lecture' (link to website)

OECD (2008) 'Taxation, State-Building and Aid', Policy Brief, OECD (link to website)

OECD (2006) Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Policy guidance for donors, DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, Paris (forthcoming) (link to website)

Patrick, S., Brown, K. (2007) 'The Pentagon and Global Development: Making sense of the DoD's Expanding Role', Working Paper No. 131, Center for Global Development (link to website)

Phillips, L. (2006) 'Assessing Governance: How can political risk analysis help?', Opinion Paper 74, ODI (link to website)

Phongpaichit, P., Baker, C. (2002) Thailand: Economy and politics, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press

Rajan, A., Subramanian, A. (2005) 'What Undermines Aid's Impact on Growth?', IMF Working Paper, No. 126., Washington D.C.: International Monetary Fund (IMF) (link to website)

Reich, M (2002) 'The Politics of Reforming Health Policies', IUHPE - Promotion and Education, IX (4), 2002 (link to website)

Reich, M., Reich, M. (1994) 'Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Policy and Politics', Health Policy and Planning, 9 (2), pp. 130-143, Oxford University Press (link to website)

Smillie, I, Minear, L. (2004) The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian action in a calculating world, Bloomfield, Ct: Kumarian Press

Stewart, F. (ed.) (2008) Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding group violence in multiethnic societies, Palgrave Macmillan

Szreter, S. (2007) "The Right of Registration: Development, identity registration, and social security - a historical perspective", World Development, 35(1) (link to website)

Tarp, F. (ed.) (2003) Foreign Aid and Development - Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future, Routledge

Task Force on Nontraditional Security As (2008) Integrating 21st Century Development and Security Assistance: Final report of the task force on nontraditional security assistance, Center for Strategic and International Studies (link to website)

Thomson, A., Mandy, F. (2008) 'Independent Evaluation of Uganda's Poverty Eradication Plan (PEAP)', Political Economy Theme Paper, Oxford Policy Management (link to website)

Toye, J., Toye, R. (2004) The UN and Global Political Economy, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Unknown (2007) 'Seminar on Governance for Economic Growth in Developing Countries, 2 - 3 July 2007: Summary report of discussions and findings', SOAS/DFID (link to website)

Unsworth, S., Conflict Research Institute (CRU) (2008) 'Framework for Strategic Governance and Corruption Analysis (SGACA): Designing strategic responses towards good governance', Prepared by the Clingendael Institute for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (link to website)

Unsworth, S. (2007) 'Can Political Science Speak to Policymakers?': PSA Development Politics Group 2nd Annual Conference, International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 26 January 2007 (link to website)

Unsworth, S. (2007) 'Re-thinking Governance to Fight Corruption', U4 Brief No. 7, CMI (link to website)

Unsworth, S. (2006) "Getting Better Governance: Insights from new research", Trocaire Development Review, pp. 17 - 33 (link to website)

Unsworth, S. (2006) 'Getting Real About Governance', IDS Policy Briefing Issue 26 (link to website)

Utomi, P, Duncan, A, Williams, G (2007) Nigeria - The Political Economy of Reform - Strengthening incentives for economic growth (updated), The Policy Practice (link to website)

Utomi, P, Duncan, A, Williams, G (2007) Policy Practice Brief 3 - The political economy of reform: The case of Nigeria 2003-2007, The Policy Practice (link to website)

Uvin, P. (2002) "The Development / Peacebuilding Nexus: A typology and history of changing paradigms", Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 1(1)

Uvin, P. (1998) Aiding Violence: The development enterprise in Rwanda, West Hartford: Kumarian Press

van Breukelen, A. (2007) Drivers of Change: Understanding the forces for poverty reduction, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (link to website)

Williams, G, Duncan, A, Landell-Mills, P, Unsworth, S, Sheehy, T (2009) Policy Practice Brief 5 - Carrying out a Joint Governance Assessment - Lessons from Rwanda, The Policy Practice (link to website)

Williams, G., et al. (2008) 'Politics and Growth: An analytical framework', The Policy Practice (link to website)

Williams, G, Duncan, A, Landell-Mills, P, Unsworth, S (2008) Politics and Growth - An analytical framework, The Policy Practice (link to website)

Williams, G, Duncan, A, Landell-Mills, P, Unsworth, S (2008) Policy Practice Brief 4 - Politics and Growth, The Policy Practice (link to website)

Williams, G, Duncan, A, Landell-Mills, P (2007) Policy Practice Brief 2 - Making the New Political Economy Perspective more operationally relevant for development agencies, The Policy Practice (link to website)

Williams, G, Landell-Mills, P, Duncan, A (2005) Government and sub-national growth.?Uneven growth within low-income countries: does it matter, and can governments do anything effective?, The Policy Practice (link to website)

Williams, G, Hay, R (2005) Fiscal space and sustainability from the perspective of the health sector, The Policy Practice (link to website)

World Bank (2008) 'The Political Economy of Policy Reform: Issues and implications for policy dialogue and development operations', Washington D.C., World Bank (link to website)

World Bank (2007) Tools for Institutional, Political and Social Analysis of Policy Reform: A sourcebook for development practitioners, Washington, D.C. (link to website)

World Bank (2007) Ghana: Country Environment Assessment, World Bank Report No. 36905-GH (link to website)

World Bank (2006) A Decade of Measuring the Quality of Governance: Governance matters 2006 worldwide governance indicators, Washington, D.C. (link to website)