Contemporary statecraft for sustained and ‘sustainable’ growth

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Date
2013
Authors
Khan, Firoz
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Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State
Abstract
English: Focusing on state structure and behaviour, the ‘good governance’ agenda, political settlement, and the current path, this article describes and elaborates – in a problematic manner – the hurdles we will encounter in simultaneously walking and making the road of state construction that is messy, complex and replete with contradictions. Some implications for planning are outlined related to issues of governance and working with clientelism and patronage as enablers and contributors to growth rather than pathologies to be ‘corrected by administrative reforms’. Whether we can carry through and successfully deliver socially inclusive and empowering developmental programmes and projects hinges on understanding and negotiating social change and transformation.
Afrikaans: Met ’n fokus op die gedrag van die staat, die ‘goeie regering’ agenda, politieke skikking, en die huidige koers, beskryf hierdie artikel uitvoerig – en op ’n problematise wyse – die hindernisse wat ons sal teëkom terwyl ons meedoen aan die slordige, komplekse en teenstrydigdige proses van tersylfdertyd die pad van staatskonstruksie maak en bewandel. Etlike implikasies vir beplanning en met verwysing tot staatsbestuur, wat saamwerk met klientisme en begunstiging as bemagtigers en meewerkers tot groei, in plaas van ‘n patologie wat reggestel moet word deur adminiatratiewe hervorming, word geskets. Die deurvoer en suksesvolle lewering van sosiaal inklusiewe en bemagtigtende ontwikkelingsprogramme en projekte sal afhang van ons begrip van sosiale verandering en transformasie en hoe ons daarmee handel.
SeSotho: Boitshoaro le mekhoa e mmuso e sebetsang ka teng, ntlheng ya ‘puso e nepahetseng’ (good governance); meaho ya dipolotiki le tsela e se ntse nkua ke mmuso ke se tlo shebua ka leihlo le hloahloa serapeng sena. Morero oa serapa sena ke ho hlalosa le ho hlalosisa ka tsela ea ho bontsa bothata. Mathata ao re tla kopana le ona a tla ba mangata a ba hanane. Tlhahiso tse ling tsa merero ea metse e meholo le detereke ke ho amanya mmuso hore o sebetsane le sechaba hore se khone ho kenyelletsa seo ba khonang tabeng ea khuliso ea baka sa sona ntle le hore mmuso o se ke oa ba nkela hloohong ebe o bona dithlahiso tsa sechaba di hloka ho tshoaua. Ho atleha morerong oa ho phethahatsa dipheo tsa tswelopele tse nepahetseng, ho itswela ho kutloisiso le dipuisano le sechaba ka phetoho.
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State construction, Planning, Governance, Social change and transformation, Developmental programmes
Citation
Khan, F. (2013). Contemporary statecraft for sustained and ‘sustainable’growth. Town and Regional Planning, 62(1), 1-8.