The Paradigm Shift of Danish Development Policy (1990–2020)
| Autor: | Kjær, Anne Mette |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Kjær, A M 2022, ' The Paradigm Shift of Danish Development Policy (1990–2020) ', Forum for Development Studies, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 345-371 . https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2022.2080762 |
| ISSN: | 1891-1765 0803-9410 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08039410.2022.2080762 |
| Popis: | For decades, Danish Development Policy was characterized by continuity, backed, as it was, by a relatively stable consensus across the political spectrum. However, this changed in the new Millennium where a paradigm shift inDanish development policy took place. This article characterizes and explainsthe paradigm shift and identifies its main driving forces. Drawing on PeterHall’s policy paradigm framework, I identify development policy changes as afirst, second, as well as a third order change, which constitutes a fundamental paradigm shift. Aid has been cut by almost a third, and the composition of instrumentshas changed with reduced allocations to bilateral country programmes, reducedallocations to the poorest and most stable countries, and increased allocations tohumanitarian aid and areas of origin of migrants. Other purposes such as e.g. security concerns, global climate mitigation, or reducing migration flows, have to a largeextent substituted the longstanding main objective of poverty reduction. International events and tendencies are of course important factors in explainingthese significant development policy shifts, but domestic driving forces areequally important and consist mainly in a politicization of development aidenabled by a prior shift in policy-arena, both driven by domestic coalition politics.The politicization happened when a centre-right government was elected in 2001and enabled a paradigm shift that happened over the 00s and which has been consolidated by the Social democratic minority government since 2019. |
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