4. ADMINISTRATIVE BARRIERS TO INSTITUTIONALIZATION
In the previous section we established that governance has
become sufficiently established as one of the strategic principles
guiding DFID and World Bank aid, with guidelines for
political analysis of one kind or another supplementing the
broader rhetoric about the centrality of politics. This ideational
evolution took place largely within the confines of headquarters,
where dedicated teams of governance advisers and
specialists operating more or less autonomously were able to
sway corporate policy at least to the point of paying lip service
to politics. But in order to really determine whether political
analysis has affected practice in any significant manner we
have to delve deeper into both aid bureaucracies. Using primary
and secondary qualitative data from headquarters as
well as three country offices per donor, in this section we track
the administrative barriers to PEA institutionalization at the
level of programing, management, and professional communities.