Polycentricity, Islam, and Development : Potentials and Challenges in Pakistan.

Cover -- Polycentricity, Islam, and Development -- Polycentricity, Islam, and Development -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Overview And Method -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Polycentric Governance in a Weak State -- Polycentric Design -- Polycentric Design In A Weak State, Heterogeneous Society Context -- Type Iii Collective Choice Units -- Informal Institutions -- Metanorms For Polycentric Design -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Polycentricity in Islamic Tradition -- Jurisprudential Tradition -- Political Islam, Modernity, And Polycentricity -- Concluding Note On Challenges And Bounds -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- Polycentric Metanorms and Islam in Pakistan -- The Pakistani Context -- National Self-conception -- Constitutional Crisis Over Polity Membership And Authorization -- Islam And The 1956 Constitution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Jurisdictions and Collective Choice Units in Pakistan -- Type I Jurisdictions In Pakistan -- Type Ii Jurisdictions In Pakistan -- Type Iii Arrangements In Pakistan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Viability -- Symbolic Contestation And Islamic Identity -- Supporting Self-governing Collective Choice Units -- Concluding Note -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Touching on development, polycentric governance, and Islamic and South Asian Studies, this book argues that religiously and historically-grounded shared understandings can support productive polycentric order in Pakistan and comparable Muslim-majority developing countries.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.