IFPRI Workshop: Speaking Truth About Power: A Workshop on “How to Do Research on Governance”

IFPRI has identified governance as an important research theme that cuts across different Divisions and requires innovative research efforts. The Governance Task Force, which coordinates and supports IFPRI’s research activities on governance, invites you to this One-Day Workshop. The objective of the workshop is to familiarize IFPRI researchers and collaborators with methods for governance research that are applied in political science and political sociology and are promising for work on governance.

In the morning session, four leading scholars will present case studies illustrating analytical approaches that are of interest to IFPRI and can be applied to poverty reduction, growth, food policy, agriculture and natural resource management. The speakers are Merilee Grindle (Harvard University), David Laitin (Stanford University), Jos Mooij (Institute of Social Studies) and Paul Sabatier (University of California, Davis).

In the afternoon session of the workshop, four IFPRI research projects that are in the planning or early implementation stage will serve as examples for discussing how IFPRI can make use of new research methods for its governance research. The projects, which are from different Divisions, will be briefly presented and then discussed, partly within sub-groups led by our invited speakers.

“Governance” refers to institutions and processes by which we make collective decisions and solve collective problems. It has become the dominant term in discussing issues such as the role of the state as various pressures converged in the 1980s to force researchers and leaders of governments and multilateral organizations to shift attention from government to governance. These pressures included demands to reduce the size of government, frustration with inefficient and corrupt government bureaucracies, and recognition that the formulation and implementation of public policy appropriately included non-government actors. Public officials must now coordinate and cooperative with partners in vertical, authority based and horizontal, negotiation-based systems responsible for provision of public goods.

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Governance Workshop Speaking Truth About Power A Workshop on "How to Do Research on Governance"
Location: International Food Policy Research Institute 2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC April 18, 2005
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WORKSHOP SUMMARY IFPRI has identified governance as an important research theme that cuts across different Divisions and requires innovative research efforts. The Governance Task Force, which coordinates and supports IFPRI’s research activities on governance, invites you to this One-Day Workshop. The objective of the workshop is to familiarize IFPRI researchers and collaborators with methods for governance research that are applied in political science and political sociology and are promising for work on governance. In the morning session, four leading scholars will present case studies illustrating analytical approaches that are of interest to IFPRI and can be applied to poverty reduction, growth, food policy, agriculture and natural resource management. The speakers are Merilee Grindle (Harvard University), David Laitin (Stanford University), Jos Mooij (Institute of Social Studies) and Paul Sabatier (University of California, Davis). In the afternoon session of the workshop, four IFPRI research projects that are in the planning or early implementation stage will serve as examples for discussing how IFPRI can make use of new research methods for its governance research. The projects, which are from different Divisions, will be briefly presented and then discussed, partly within sub-groups led by our invited speakers. Workshop program (PDF 160K) “Governance” refers to institutions and processes by which we make collective decisions and solve collective problems. It has become the dominant term in discussing issues such as the role of the state as various pressures converged in the 1980s to force researchers and leaders of governments and multilateral organizations to shift attention from government to governance. These pressures included demands to reduce the size of government, frustration with inefficient and corrupt government bureaucracies, and recognition that the formulation and implementation of public policy appropriately included non-government actors. Public officials must now coordinate and cooperative with partners in vertical, authority based and horizontal, negotiation-based systems responsible for provision of public goods.
Kindly RSVP Anjali Bhat by April 13th to 202-862-5661 or Email: a.bhat@cgiar.org.
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