Devolution and Development: Governance Prospects in Decentralizing States

Decentralization and Local Governance in

📁 Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective

✍ Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 The MIT Press 🌐 English

Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in t

Decentralized Development in Latin Ameri

📁 Decentralized Development in Latin America: Experiences in Local Governance and Local Development

✍ Paul van Lindert, Otto Verkoren (auth.), Paul Lindert, Otto Verkoren (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

The Latin American subcontinent appears to have reinvented itself in the 21st century. Its economy has been transformed under liberalization and globalisation. Decentralization and the democratic transition have modified the political environment, while local development approaches

Decentralized Development in Latin Ameri

📁 Decentralized Development in Latin America: Experiences in Local Governance and Local Development

✍ Paul van Lindert, Otto Verkoren (auth.), Paul Lindert, Otto Verkoren (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

The Latin American subcontinent appears to have reinvented itself in the 21st century. Its economy has been transformed under liberalization and globalisation. Decentralization and the democratic transition have modified the political environment, while local development approaches

Governance and Governed: Multi-Country P

📁 Governance and Governed: Multi-Country Perspectives on State, Society and Development

✍ Madhushree Sekher,S. Parasuraman,Ruth Kattumuri (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Springer Singapore 🌐 English

Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into the contested topic of ‘governance and governed’ from a state–society inter-relationship perspective. It argues that the centrality of an understanding of state-gove

Handbook on Decentralization, Devolution

📁 Handbook on Decentralization, Devolution and the State

✍ Lago, Ignacio (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Edward Elgar 🌐 English

Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the dynamics of political and economic decentralization in contemporary regimes, this comprehensive Handbook offers a critical examination of how the decentralization of governance affects citizen well-being. Expert contributors provide an analysis of th

Decentralization and Governance in Indon

📁 Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia

✍ Ronald L. Holzhacker, Rafael Wittek, Johan Woltjer (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Springer International Publishing 🌐 English

Indonesia over the past two decades has embarked on a process of decentralization as part of a broader process of democratization, which followed earlier periods of centralized governance and authoritarian rule across the archipelago. The purpose of this book is to begin to explore the connect