Aim: The article aims at developing an economic theory of reorientation. As Western subjects are disoriented by long-time systematic commercial manipulation of their preferences, the theory focuses on new concepts of endogenous preferences and on the process of preference manipulation and its...

This paper reviews the current state of behavioural economics and its applications to energy efficiency in developing countries. Taking energy efficient lighting in Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda as empirical examples, this paper develops hypotheses on how behavioural factors can improve energy...

The paper first surveys the literature on accountability and establishes a categorization of the different ways by which civil society can interact with the state in order to improve accountability. It then explores in detail seven case studies of successful experiences of state-society synergy...

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- 1. Economic Development and Good Government -- 2. Accountability and Civil Society -- 3. Case Studies -- Case #1: Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre,Brazil -- Case #2: Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute -- Case #3:...

Democracy, domination, and the challenge of economic governance -- Managerialism and the new deal legacy -- The progressive critique of the market -- Economic domination and democratic action -- Structuring democratic agency -- Anti-domination as regulatory strategy -- Democratic agency as...