Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
3-2017
Abstract
Developing countries are often characterized by a mix of bad governance and development initiatives seeking to accelerate modernization. When inevitable cracks in the modernization process appear, they create opportunities for informalities to seep in where the influence of power relations and culture can lead to new forms of predation or allow governance compromises to emerge. The article explores this at the national and local levels of the Pakistani electrical power sector, with each level conceptualized as a field of strategic action. The aim is to recognize the importance of emergent compromises for producing workable accommodations of competing interests, improving access to services, and addressing questions of social justice. Flexibility in responding to these cracks in the modernization process is not always a failing, but can be desirable and possibly necessary.
Keywords
Governance, formality, electricity, Pakistan
Discipline
Asian Studies | Energy Policy | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | Regional Sociology
Research Areas
Sociology
Publication
Current Sociology
Volume
65
Issue
2
First Page
195
Last Page
208
ISSN
0011-3921
Identifier
10.1177/0011392116657290
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Citation
NAQVI, Ijlal.(2017). Governance as an emergent compromise: Modernization and flexibility in the Pakistani electrical power sector. Current Sociology, 65(2), 195-208.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2150
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392116657290