QoG lunch seminar with Mike Titterton
Research
Pointers From The Field: Are We Helping or Hindering Government Competence In Central and Eastern Europe?
Seminar
Pointers From The Field: Are We Helping or Hindering Government Competence In Central and Eastern Europe?
Abstract
Do our international efforts genuinely improve the competence of governments? Or are they, in some ways, counterproductive? I address this query by talking about my experience of working in this region as a technical expert, alongside my scholarly activities in relation to research and impact on policy and practice. l raise some of the pressing issues for enhancing governmental competence and strengthening institutions in a contested geopolitical entity like Central and Eastern Europe. This will include a consideration of the principal dilemmas we face when we seek to improve a government’s capability for responding to its challenges. The latter include the 'new social risks' that confront welfare states in the region. The discussion is particularly aimed at postgraduate students, including those interested in working or researching in international development or who are contemplating a career in applied policy.
E. Bogdanova and M. Titterton, Statebuilding and the Modernisation of Welfare Governance in Russia, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2024, DOI:10.1080/17502977.2024.2312771.
L. Cook and M. Titterton, Mapping the Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Convergent Policy Responses to ‘New Social Risks’, Social Policy and Society, 22, 2, 321-337, April 2023.
M.S. Grindle (ed.), Getting Good Government: capacity building in the public sectors of developing countries. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
M. Titterton and E. Iarskaia-Smirnova, Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities, Social Policy and Society, 2023. doi: 10.1017/S1474746423000210.