It can be argued that this argument seems to fall into the trap of predicating all
“development” on the need to follow a single path or trajectory: the trail that has been blazed
by “advanced Western democracies”. Such a view is open to the charge of ethnocentricity. This
transfer of Western blueprints and models as if they were relevant to all times and places has
aptly been labelled “institutional monocropping”.14 Crucially, such an approach is likely to miss
opportunities for improvement that emerge from tapping local problem-solving capacities.15