Advance praise for How Change Happens:

“In this powerfully argued book, Duncan Green shows how we can make major changes in our unequal and unjust world by concerted action, taking full note of the economic and social mechanisms, including established institutions, that sustain the existing order.  If self-confidence is important for the effective agency of deprived communities, so is a reasoned understanding of the difficult barriers that must be faced and overcome.  This is a splendid treatise on how to change the actual world—in reality, not just in our dreams”—Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-winning economist and author.

“In How Change Happens, Duncan Green points to a simple truth: that positive social change requires power, and hence attention on the part of reformers to politics and the institutions within which power is exercised.  It is an indispensable guide for activists and change-makers everywhere”—Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last Man.

“Duncan has given us a remarkable tour de force, wide-ranging, readable, combining theory and practice, and drawing on his extensive reading and rich and varied experience.  How Change Happens is a wonderful gift to all development professionals and citizens who want to make our world a better place… It is a landmark, a must read book to return to again and again to inform and inspire reflection and action. I know no other book like it”—Robert Chambers, development scholar and Honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Social Studies.