Quote Originally Posted by John T. Fishel View Post
"issue effort" it is polemical. I don't see the DFID stuff in that way but rather as a comparative inquiry with policy implications for US practitioners. Of course, the authors advocate a point of view, but so does most policy oriented research. I also don't see this as terribly sophisticated analysis but still well within the legitimate rubric for an academic institution with policy pretensions - in the most positive sense, of course.
Agreed.

Ken—also, various university subunits and research groups are relatively free to publish what they want, provided that it meets some standard of quality. It is not unusual to find entirely different analyses being put forward, or policies recommended, by different folks in different places at the same institution.

Universities are about as close as you'll ever come to a functioning anarcho-syndicalist commune