Historical contingency and path dependence in bottom-up democratisation through NGOs: a case study from Pakistan

Syed Owais

Development in Practice, 2020, vol. 30, issue 7, 953-964

Abstract: This article presents an institutionalist account of historically structured formal and informal institutions and the politico-economic factors that influenced the efforts of a Pakistani NGO (FORDP) to democratise rural communities. Using interviews with FORDP staff members, the article demonstrates that its bottom-up democratisation has gradually succumbed to structures of inequality at the micro level and to macro politico-economic changes. At the macro level, Pakistan’s alliance in the “war on terror” and the post-2005 earthquake relief efforts translated into large-scale NGO interventions at the grassroots. However, as these were patronage-based, they made it harder for FORDP to instil long-lasting change in communities.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1762543

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