Political Economy of Development from Global to Indonesian Context : A Review of Literature

Why do some governments perform well, when the others perform badly in the issue of development such as poverty, welfare, public good provision, environment and the lack of human development? Different theories exist in the literature regarding these questions. The main aims of book are; firstly, to discuss the debate among scholars to frame these questions. Secondly, to find novelty in this study so far in order to support this thesis argument that academia has minsufficiently addressed the research question so far. In this book we organise our discussion in several parts. First of all, we investigate the theory of classical economy, Keynesian Economics, Marxist theory to frame these problems. Secondly, this literature review book will review the emerging inclusive institution theory after the death of Washington Consensus. Thirdly, this book will review the specific institutions such as transparency, accountability and corruption and its relation to development. This book also will explore the debate among institution perspective, geographical perspective and culture perspective in looking the explanation for god and bad in development. Next, this 2 book will explain about the resource curse theory and the impact of ethnic relation to the governance. Lastly, this paper will review the previous study about
Indonesia on the relation of ethnic, institution and development.