Björn Dressel
Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy
Qualifications
B Laws/BA Politics (Trier); MA International Relations, PhD (Johns Hopkins University)
Video
Targeting the Public Purse: Advocacy Coalitions and Public Finance in the Philippines
This article analyses the political dynamics underlying public financial management (PFM) reforms in the Philippine during the Benigno Aquino III administration (2010-present). By inviting widespread civil society participation throughout the budget cycle and by imposing greater transparency and accountability, they mark a substantial policy change in Filipino PFM. Centering on the evolution of public finance advocacy coalitions, this article argues a new type of coalition has emerged among technocratic non-governmental organisations, which are now able to place ‘policy brokers’ directly in the national administration. However, institutional structures, dependence on donors, and the contest-ability of core beliefs behind these activities raise doubts about whether they are sustainable. These doubts in turn raise fascinating theoretical and empirical questions.
Political Science
- American Political Science Association
- IPSA Portal (Top 300 Sites)
- Political Studies Association (UK)
- European Consortium of Political Science
Comparative Politics
Data Sets
- Comparative Political Data Set (University Bern)
- Polity IV (University of Maryland)
- World Value Survey
- Data Base for Political Institutions
- World Bank Development Statistics
- Afro-Barometer
- Euro-Barometer
- Latino-Barometer
- Asian-Barometer
- Parliamentary Data
- Freedom House
- Minorities At Risk Dataset
- Foreign Government Web Resources UM Ann Arbor
- Oxford Latin American Economic History Database
- Government Publications and Maps (Northwestern University)
- BLM American Democracy index
Research Methodology
- Ohio State Methodology Page (several useful links)
- The Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods
- ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research
- IPSA Committee on Concepts and Methods
Governance Issues
Think Tanks/Research Centres
- ODI
- Centre for Global Development
- Centre for International Development
- Institute for Development Studies (IDS)
Blogs
Data Sets
- World Bank Governance Indicators
- World Bank Country Policy and Institutional Assessments
- Governance and Anti-Corruption Data
Asia/Southeast Asia
Blogs
Asia Centres/Think Tanks
- Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i
- Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
- Kyoto University Centre for Southeast Asian Studies on-line journal
- International Institute of Asian Studies
- Asia Research Centre
- Philippine Institute of Development Studies
Business Organizations
- Pacific Basin Economic Council
- US Thai Business Council
- Pacific Economic Coordination Council
- ASEAN Free Trade Arena
- US ASEAN Business Organization
- APEC
Southeast Asian Governments
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