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100			_aGoldfinch, Shaun
245			_aIn it for the long haul? Post-conflict statebuilding, peacebuilding, and the good government agenda in Timor-Leste
260			_c2014
300			_ap.96-108.
362			_aMay
520			_aStatebuilding after conflict often entails liberal peacebuilding measures. The end of the UN mission in post-conflict Timor-Leste in December 2012 provides a unique opportunity to investigate statebuilding in practice. The liberal peacebuilding agenda has met with stiff academic resistanceﾗmainly from the critical theorist campﾗand is questioned as an appropriate measure of ﾅstatebuilding success. We deploy instead the good governance (GG) agenda as a hybrid local-liberal guide. Drawing on field work, interviews, and secondary documents, we investigate what we see as four key, intertwined and overlapping aspects of GG: state capacity including the establishment of a state bureaucracy, participation and the engagement of civil society, institution building and rule of law, and corruption control and transparency. We note GG provides a useful policy heuristic, while abstract "one-size-fits-all" liberal peacebuilding models, which avoid the complexities of machinery of government issues, the time taken to develop institutions, and historical and contextual environments of countries, are likely to face severe problems. New states may be dependent on external forces to maintain monopoly of violence. The reversibility and uncertainty of statebuilding and the decades-long commitment needed by international agencies are
650			_aPeace building
650			_aGood governance
650			_aPublic administration
700			_aDerouen, Karl, jr.
773			_aPublic Administration and Development
908			_aN
909			_a104519
999			_c104515 _d104515