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Deval Desai
Deval Desai
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Expert Ignorance
The Law and Politics of Rule of Law Reform
 , pp. 260 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023
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Index

Abramović, Marina, 122, 124
accountability, 5
action, 121–123, 128, 132, 136
collective, 58, 81–83
as ignorance and implementation, 169, 171
social, 119
structural constraints on, 167
structure of, 174
actor(s), 123, 124, 132, 163, 171, 175, 176
global, 36, 146, 182
institutionalised, 22, 59, 151
local, 63, 101, 146, 186, 199
networks of, 29, 207, 208, 212
non-state, 211
theatrical, 23, 125–127, 133, 138, 216
Adorno, Theodor, 110, 112, 116, 117
aesthetics, 112
aesthetic practice, xv, 23
aesthetic theory. See theory, aesthetic
of expert ignorance, 234
Afghanistan, 80, 190
Africa
East, 44, 50
sub-Saharan, xiv, 23, 49, 50, 67, 91, 98, 102, 147
West, 44, 50
agency, 18, 42, 119, 122, 131–133, 137
in Ohio Impromptu, 132
political, 141, 208
and structure, 29, 41, 46, 48, 108, 114, 117, 124
Andrews, Matt. See APW (Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock, authors)
Angelo. See Measure for Measure
APW (Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock, authors), 198, 199, 201, 202, 204, 206, 207
The Archbishop’s Ceiling. See Miller, Arthur
Archimedes, 128
Aristotle, 121, 177
audience, 19, 119, 120, 145, 146, 163
of experts, 21
as object, 132
relation to actor, 123, 131
Australia, 56, 58, 59, 62, 74, 78
authority, 18, 20, 45, 68, 73, 128, 161, 173, 208, 210, 220, 221
charismatic, 91
of Chiefs. See Chief(s), authority of
epistemic, 12, 23, 103
of expertise. See expertise, authority of
gaps in, 11
of global policymaking, 4
negation of, 160
of reformers, 23, 45, 203
Bank of England, 224
Beckett, Samuel, 131–133
Ohio Impromptu, 18, 24, 109, 129, 132, 133, 135, 138, 146, 153, 155, 171, 216
silence in Ohio Impromptu, 135, 136
Benjamin, Walter, 115, 116
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 190
Boston, 1
Bourdieu, Pierre, 176, 177
field theory, 84
Brecht, Bertolt, 121
Brexit, 217, 219–222, 224–227, 230
as ignorance work, 220, 227
and implementation work, 220, 227
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 220, 224, 225
Brussels, 222
Canada, 56, 58, 59, 62, 74, 88
capacity-building, 79, 208
Chief(s), 4, 49, 57, 63, 65, 69, 70, 83, 88, 92, 94, 96, 98, 134, 170
authority of, 69, 70
participation in ADA, 82, 93, 94, 100, 136, 170
power of, 55, 61, 82, 83
Christianity, 9, 91
civil society organisations (CSOs), 208
Claudio. See Measure for Measure
Coggins, Ross, 9
The Development Set, 1, 8, 12
Send Me, O Lord, Send Me, 9
Columbus, Ohio, 18
communities, xiv, 103
conflict, 54, 67, 69, 74, 76, 82
avoidance, 83, 93
mitigation of, 59, 75, 77, 103
violent, 55, 56
corporate social responsibility (CSR), 75, 97
Country (fictional), 50, 51, 54–57, 59–61, 68–72, 74, 78, 80, 82, 87, 90–92, 98, 102, 134, 139, 147, 169, 172
Agricultural Concessionaire (AC), 50, 61–63, 68, 87, 92–94, 98, 136, 170, 171
Agricultural Development Agreement (ADA), 55–57, 59, 61–65, 71–75, 77–83, 89, 93, 94, 102, 133, 138, 170
Agriculture Act (AA), 55–57, 66, 71–74, 79–82, 103
main communities (MCs) in, 63, 73, 76, 78, 81, 103
National Agricultural Agency (NAA), 50, 61–64, 66, 67, 72, 73, 79, 87, 92, 94, 96, 103
natural resource governance, 70
other Donor (OD), 50, 54, 55, 57, 61, 63, 64, 66, 67, 71, 87, 92, 93, 96, 101
role of the Chief, 65, 73, 99, 138, 149, 151, 165
WeCountry Breweries Inc., 95–97
critical writing, 27, 28
critics, 36
experts as, 11, 12, 128
Department for International Development (DfID), UK, 44, 50, 107, 147, 210
development projects, 8, 25, 64, 81, 85, 232
Diageo, 95
Dimbleby, David, 221
disenchantment, 8, 10
dealing with, 9
as an exercise of power, 11
donors, 50, 51, 54, 55, 58, 69, 70, 77, 87, 206
influence of, 101
dramatic structure, 24, 129
Duke Vincentio. See Measure for Measure
Durkheim, Émile, 193
Dutch disease, 81
East Timor, 190
Eastern Europe, 114, 141, 171
education, 194, 209
epistemic communities, 36, 52, 53, 65, 66, 100, 104
Escalus. See Measure for Measure
ethics, 9
ethnomethodology, 119, 124, 234
European Union (EU), 41, 98, 134, 136, 219–221, 225, 227, 232
expert governance, xvii, 10
alternatives to, 5
critique of, 6, 11
failures of, 6
limits of, 223
expert ignorance, xiii, xiv, xvi, 13, 20, 68, 218, 229, 236
action, 16
as an aesthetic encounter, 18
applicability, 228, 229
and Brexit, 217, 219
consequences, 15, 16, 104, 153
definition, xiii, xiv, 15
expert self-denial, xvi, 13, 14, 47, 197, 230
and global governance, 22
about institutions, 24
measuring, 230
operationalisation, xvi, 22
and PDIA, 197, 199
performance analysis of, 18, 108
performance of, 215, 234
politics of, 218
professionalisation, xvii
relation to rule of law reform, 18, 175, 235
about rule of law, 6, 13
in rule of law work, 139
social form of, 213
social organisation, xvii
as a tool of governance, 161
undermining of, 234
expertise, 17, 208, 210
accountability of, 4
architecture of, 10, 11, 13
authority of, 8, 11, 15, 23, 29, 52, 128, 203, 218
biases, 5, 7
critique of, 4, 6, 7, 10
dealing with critique, 8, 10, 12
dealing with failure, 8
definition, 8
denial of, 12
destabilisation of, 224
as entropic, 7
failures of, 8
implications, 13
limits of, 9, 10
performance of, 10
practice, 3, 7
purpose, 3
and reformers, 15
and social realities, 4
extractive industries
in Country (fictional), 55
mining, 4, 32, 33, 55, 58, 69, 75, 77–80
oil, 4, 55, 75
fantasy, 109, 113, 124, 166, 190, 191
of rule of law, 117, 124, 165
fiction, 236
Financial Times, 224
Foucault, Michel, 67, 84
discourse analysis, 23, 50
knowledge-power. See knowledge-power
Frankfurt School, 14, 20
Freud, Sigmund, 121, 125
Fukuyama, Francis, 195
genre, xiv, 19, 44, 48, 49, 52, 68, 85, 104, 105, 155, 160, 161, 236
of critique, 28, 31
genre work, 235
Ghana, 79
global governance, xvi, 1, 4, 17
accountability of, 5, 18
alternative forms of, 5
critique of, 7
definition, 4
political stakes, 4
redefinition of, 7
resistance to, 7
Global North, 44, 58, 74, 114, 219, 228
Global South, 1, 8, 16, 24, 53, 228
Goffman, Erving, 120
social dramaturgy, 119
governance, general, 19
failures of, 7, 10
ungovernance, 229
Greece, 179
Harvard Kennedy School, 75, 198
hierarchy, 53
of knowledge, 67
social, 65
Hilton, Steve, 221
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), 117, 209
human rights, 16, 32, 51, 75, 147, 151, 167, 177, 182, 183, 185, 211
identity, xiv, xvii
ignorance, 13, 17, 223
definition, 13, 14
expert. See expert ignorance
ignorance studies, 15
ignorance-power, 16
normative, 170
and political anxiety, 13
terminology, 15
ignorance work, xvi, 21, 139, 140, 149, 152, 155, 163, 165, 172
in action, 165, 170, 171
and Brexit. See Brexit, as ignorance work
effects of, 166, 167, 171
and implementation work, xvii, 24, 152, 155, 167, 169, 171, 196, 203, 208, 212, 218, 231
of reformers, xvii, 21, 138, 212, 216
typology of, 164, 165
ignorant experts. See expert ignorance
implementation work, xvi, 21, 61, 152, 155, 161, 162, 167, 169, 199, 218
in action, 64, 170–172
and Brexit. See Brexit, and implementation work
typology of, 168
indicators, xvi, 1, 3, 139, 140, 147, 194
beneficiaries of, 149
developmental, 7
as performance, 152
production of, 10, 21, 139, 152
institutions, 27, 53, 103, 150, 155, 176, 184, 191–194, 204, 213, 219
change, 16, 189, 209
institution-building, xvi, 180, 199, 229
local, 77, 81, 138, 180
reform, 17, 22, 24–27, 85, 112, 175, 180, 200, 204, 210, 229
state, 21
international development, 1, 208
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 212
Iraq, 190
Ireland, Northern. See United Kingdom (UK), Northern Ireland
Ireland, Republic of, 226
Isabella. See Measure for Measure
Juliet. See Measure for Measure
Kant, Immanuel, 20, 110, 111, 116
Kennedy, David, 8, 91, 185
knowledge, 3, 14, 20, 21, 29, 68, 83, 204
expert knowledge, 52, 67
and ignorance, 20, 103
knowledge work, 24, 139–141
limits of, 14, 199, 223
relation to action, xiv, xvi, 8, 24, 28, 31, 104, 105, 109, 161, 162, 218
relation to power, 3, 231
knowledge-power, 4, 10, 16
definition, 16
Kosovo, 190
Latin America, 53, 177, 178, 193
law
as an aesthetic artefact, 110, 111
and aesthetics, 110, 111, 116
ambiguity of, 71, 74
and development, 34, 178, 179, 182, 183
law-building, 116
legal criticism, 12
legal systems, 10, 186, 211
rule of. See rule of law
Lebanon, 228
legal theory, 185
feminist, 183
Liberia, 79, 116
local governance, 61, 76, 81, 82, 101, 103, 162
definition, 4
Locke, John, 177
London, 107, 139, 220
Lucas, Caroline, 222
Lucio. See Measure for Measure
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 159
Mariana. See Measure for Measure
Marxism, 121, 142, 148
May, Theresa, 226
Measure for Measure, 18, 19, 26, 49, 107, 154, 155, 161, 163, 174, 175, 196, 215, 217, 237
Angelo, 156–161, 217, 218
Claudio, 156–158, 160
Duke Vincentio, 19, 20, 154, 156–161, 218, 234, 237
Escalus, 156–161, 218
genre, 154, 157
Isabella, 156, 157, 218
Juliet, 157
Lucio, 20
Mariana, 156, 157
plot, 154, 156
meetings
as development practice, 3
memory, 133
collective, 184
metaphor, 144
methodology, 20, 23, 37, 49, 84, 116, 118
challenges of, 39
constraints on, 172
critical methods, 231
framework of, 108, 120
historical method, 180
implications for, 33, 104
methods, xvi, 21, 23, 24, 29, 105, 216
overview, xiv
participatory methods, 63, 94, 169
in practice, 129
and rule of law, 59, 68, 108, 195
social science, xvi
Microsoft Word, 47
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), UN, 7, 117, 118
Miller, Arthur, 144–146
The Archbishop’s Ceiling, 18, 24, 109, 129, 141, 146, 151–153, 155, 171, 216
movement, xiv, 48, 104, 105
Myanmar, 113, 209, 210
narrative, 101
nativism, 224
natural resource governance, 76
neoclassicism, 26, 27, 39, 40
neoliberalism, 5, 26, 32, 33, 189, 195, 224
new institutional economics (NIE), 27, 182
New York, 1, 5–7, 145, 150–152
New York Times, The, 143, 225
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 112
Nigeria, 56, 75, 147
non-elites, 5
non-governmental organisations (NGOs), 1, 9, 17, 36, 44, 51, 59, 61–66, 87, 88, 92–94, 96, 98, 137, 147, 162, 167, 190
OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), 235
Ohio Impromptu. See Beckett, Samuel
oil companies. See extractive industries, oil
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 191–193, 235, 236
Oxfam, 86, 201
Palestinians, 228
Papua New Guinea, 71, 75, 79, 134
Paris, 142
parliamentarianism, 16
peace-building, 7, 229
peacekeeping, 16
performance, xiv, xv, 108, 119, 122–125, 127–129, 133, 144, 146, 153
definition, 153
dramatic, 24
postdramatic, 120
performance analysis, xiv, 18, 106, 120, 153, 155, 171, 216
of action, 197
of expert ignorance. See expert ignorance, performance analysis of
of Measure for Measure, 154
of Ohio Impromptu, 138
of silence, 135
structural, 121, 122
performance studies, xiv, xvi, 21, 23, 45, 152
Peru, 80
Philippines, 78, 134
playwright
relation to actor and audience, 131, 132
plot, 131
policymaking
global, 3, 4
pollution, 4
positionality, xiii, 12
poverty, 3, 68, 191
power, 35, 36, 85, 87, 161, 224
and decision-making, 208
of experts, 36
local, 33, 35, 63, 70, 81, 82, 92, 137, 148
in Miller’s work, 145
professional, 66
struggles for, 83, 84, 137
practitioners, xiv
Prague, 141
Pritchett, Lant. See APW (Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock, authors)
problem-driven iterative adaptation (PDIA), 25, 197–202, 204–210
as a global social movement, 202, 204, 206, 207, 209, 212, 213
and ignorance, 207
race, 17, 67
Rayner, Alice, xiv, 123, 124, 153, 155, 166, 171
reflective writing, 44
reformers, 28, 31, 47–49, 108, 109, 113, 197, 211
action, 15, 37, 102, 140, 174
and ambivalence, 212
consequences of work, xvii, 117
as critics, 12, 195
identity, 153
and ignorance, 102, 138, 140, 155, 163, 166, 197, 216
and movement, 109
self-critique, 11, 38, 235
self-denial, 15, 20, 21, 28, 36, 38, 39, 108, 133, 163, 181
and social structure, 205
Ricœur, Paul, 45, 46
Rome, 179
rule of law, xvi, 25
accountability of, 4
definition, xvii, 3
and expert ignorance, xvi
forms of, 17
as an indicator, 6, 7, 10
legal architecture of, 5
performances, 21, 22, 106, 163, 171, 197
relation to expert ignorance, 18
as a sublime, 23, 110, 112–115, 124, 181, 217
rule of law reform, xiv, xvi
action, 11
as an aesthetic artefact, 108, 111, 175, 180
boundaries of, 17
definition, xvi, 5
as dramatic action, xvii, 128
effects of, xvi
history of, 177
performance analysis of, 172, 175, 176
performance of, 21, 129, 132, 218
performer, 128
political stakes, xvii
reformers, xiii, xiv, xvi, 1, 11, 16, 17, 20–23, 28, 31, 33, 35–47, 59, 105, 107–115, 117–120, 122, 124, 127–129, 155, 161–163, 165, 169, 173, 175–177, 183, 184, 195, 197, 210–213, 215, 216, 234, 235
reformers’ expertise, 16, 38, 206, 215
status of, 181
Rwanda, 190
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 176
Schechner, Richard, 121–123
Schrödinger, Erwin, 128
Shakespeare, William
Hamlet (character), 144
Measure for Measure. See Measure for Measure
Sierra Leone, 56, 71, 147, 190, 206
Socrates, 144
South Africa, 78
South Sudan, 162
Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP), 162
Soviet Union (USSR), 179, 190
Stanislavski, Konstantin, 23, 121, 125, 127–129, 204
magic if, 127, 165, 166
system, 108, 125
state-building, 70, 182, 211, 229
structure. See agency, and structure
sublime, 18, 109, 110, 112, 116, 117, 119, 120, 176, 180, 184, 192
global economy as, 189
institutions as, 195
in Measure for Measure, 158
the state as, 190
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN, 1, 7
Switzerland, 61
Syria, 228
Tea Party (US protest movement), 223
terms of reference (ToRs), 210, 212
theatre, 122, 143
analysis. See performance analysis
as metaphor, 119, 174
theatre criticism, 121
theory, xvi, 40
aesthetic theory, xvi, 23, 106, 116, 216
critical theory, 183
field theory. See Bourdieu, Pierre, field theory
and practice, 39
social theory, 14
think tanks, 17, 42, 44
Thomas, Chantal, 26, 27, 29, 38–40
transaction intensiveness, 202–204
transitional justice, 21, 39, 178, 185, 230
Trump, Donald, 223
Uganda, 117
United Kingdom (UK), 198, 219, 220, 223, 227
Brexit. See Brexit
Northern Ireland, 226
Scotland, 226
United Nations (UN), 1, 17, 24, 44, 50, 58, 75, 111, 138–140, 146, 147, 172, 190
United States of America (USA), 177, 182, 190
US Agency for International Development (USAID), 9
Vienna, 18, 139
in Measure for Measure, 19, 154–161, 171
Washington Consensus, 27
Weber, Max, 91, 191, 214
Woolcock, Michael. See APW (Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock, authors)
workshops
in London, 139
in New York, 1, 5, 7, 10, 11, 145, 150–152
and performance, 145
in Vienna, 139
World Bank, 3, 17, 26–28, 31–33, 35, 39, 40, 42, 44, 50, 54, 58, 61, 76, 81, 86, 147, 162, 163, 186, 191, 192, 198, 206, 212, 213
World Development Reports, 35, 186, 188, 189
World Trade Organization (WTO), 226

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