In general, the aid community still acts like politics is ancillary to programs. That development is driven by technocratic solutions like data, evaluation, and evidence. And these things exist outside of that amorphous, unmeasurable concept of politics
Exemplifying development’s failure to grapple with politics - World Bank conference last month with nine economists explaining the far right, anti-democratic shift around the world. It’s all about technical flows of money, you see. My kingdom for a political scientist or community organiser