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Guerrilla Auditors

Name: Guerrilla Auditors
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822350361
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The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay

Autor: Kregg Hetherington

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: Duke University Press

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Guerrilla Auditors is an ethnographic account of the rise of information, transparency, and good gov...

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Autor

Kregg Hetherington

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2011

Stránok

312

EAN

9780822350361

ISBN

082235036X

Enbook ID

04939383

Vydavateľ

Duke University Press

Hmotnosť

432

Rozmery

233 x 156 x 18

Kompletný popis

Guerrilla Auditors is an ethnographic account of the rise of information, transparency, and good governance in the post-Cold War era, and the effects of these concepts on Paraguay's transition to democracy. Kregg Hetherington shows that the ideal of transparent information, meant to depoliticize bureaucratic procedures, has become a battleground for a new kind of politics centred on legal interpretation and the manipulation of official documents. In late-twentieth-century Paraguay, peasant land politics moved unexpectedly from the roads and fields into the documentary recesses of state bureaucracy. When peasants, bureaucrats, and development experts encountered one another in state archives, conflicts ensued about how bureaucracy ought to function, what documents are for, and who gets to narrate the past and the future of the nation. Hetherington argues that Paraguay's neoliberal democracy is predicated, at least in part, on an exclusionary distinction between model citizens and peasants. Despite this, peasant activists have found ways to circumvent their exclusion and in so doing question the conceptual foundations of international development orthodoxy.