A Common Good Approach to Development
Subtitle: Collective Dynamics of Development Processes
By: edited by Mathias Nebel, Oscar Garza-Vázquez and Clemens Sedmak
Contributors: Open Book Publishers
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781800643345; 9781800644069
Subjects: Community development; Social aspects; Economic aspects; Philosophy; Cross-cultural studies
Description: This edited collection proposes a common good approach to development theory and practice. Rather than focusing on the outcomes or conditions of development, the contributors concentrate on the quality of development processes, suggesting that a common good dynamic is key in order to trigger development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Contents; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: 1. The Research Question; title: 2. Why Do We Need a Common Good Approach?; title: 3. A Common Good Approach to Development. Where Do We Stand?; title: 4. Does a Common Good Approach to Development Undermines the Plurality of Modern Societies?; title: 5. Why Measure Common Good Dynamics?; title: 6. Structure of the Book; title: References; title: PART I: A COMMON GOOD APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT; title: Introduction to Part I; title: Aim of Part I; title: To Whom Is it of Interest?; title: Why Does it Matter?; title: 1. The Theoretical Framework: Common Goods and Systems of Common Goods; title: Reasserting the Notion of the Common Good in the Twenty-First Century; title: 1. The Common Good Belongs to the Sphere of Action; title: I.A Notion Implicit in All Public Action; title: II. The Need to Act in Common: The Community Created by Common Action; title: III. The Elements of Common Action; title: 2. The Vocabulary of the Common Good; title: I. The Social Good and the Shared Value of the Common Benefit; title: II. The Good of Order and the Common Rationality it Creates; title: III. A Specific Common Good; title: IV. The Nexus of Common Goods; title: 3. Aspiring to the Universal Common Good; title: 4. The Common Good as the Dialectic of Politics; title: I. The Conjunction of the Individual Good and the Good of the Community; title: II. Wanting the Common Good; title: III. The Dialectical Dynamic of the Common Good; title: Conclusion: The Quality of Common Good Dynamics; title: References; title: 2. From Theory to Practice: A Matrix of Common Good Dynamics; title: Part I: The Empirical Foundations of the Matrix; title: I. Commons and Commoning; title: II. Community-Based or Community-Driven Development Programmes; title: III. Empirical Elements of the Matrix of Common Good Dynamics; title: Part II: Toward a Matrix of Common Good Dynamics; title: I. What Does the Matrix Capture? A Few Preliminary Remarks; title: II. The Five Dimensions of the Matrix; title: The Definition and Systemic Function of Each Dimension; title: What Do We Mean by Collective Agency Freedom?; title: And What about Governance?; title: Justice as a Normative Driver of Common Good Dynamics; title: The Dimension of Stability; title: The Humanity Dimension; title: III. A List of Basic Common Goods and Core Habitus; title: A List of Basic Common Goods; title: Which Set of Core Habitus?; title: IV. A Relational Normativity: A Tool to Analyse Realities and Tell the Stories of Common Good Dynamics; title: Conclusions; title: References; title: 3. Design and Reflection on the Metric of Common Dynamics; title: Introduction; title: 1. The Theoretical Foundations of the Survey; title: 2. The Design of the Survey; title: 3. The Dimensions of a Common Good Metric and Its Indicators; title: I. Justice; title: II. Stability; title: III. Governance; title: IV. Collective Agency Freedom; title: V. Humanity; title: 4. Discussion and Future Improvements; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: Appendix; title: PART II: DISCUSSING THE NORMATIVE ELEMENTS OF COMMON GOOD DYNAMICS; title: Introduction to Part II; title: Aim of the Part II; title: To Whom Is it of Interest?; title: Why Does it Matter?