The People, Power, Politics podcast features a conversation with Greg Power OBE about his new book Inside the Political Mind.
Why do efforts to build effective states and deliver services to citizens so often go wrong? And how can understanding the inside of the political mind empower us to achieve better results? In this episode, CEDAR’s Nic Cheeseman talks to Greg Power about his important new book, Inside the Political Mind, based on the experience of working with hundreds of politicians in more than sixty countries. Greg explains why individual politicians and norms of behaviour and more powerful than formal rules and institutions, and why practical challenges so often encourage citizens and politicians to go around the state rather than working through it. This leads to a radical new way of thinking about state-building and development that works from the bottom-up on the basis of what leaders and their people want, rather than what the international community assumes they need.
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Professor of Democracy and International Development
Nic Cheeseman is Professor of Democracy and International Development at the University of Birmingham.
