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Governance and basic social services: ensuring accountability in service delivery through deep democratic decentralization
✍ Scribed by Santosh Mehrotra
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0954-1748
- DOI
- 10.1002/jid.1219
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✦ Synopsis
Ensuring accountability of local functionaries for effective delivery of basic social services has been a perennial problem of development. Since the poor have limited prospects of 'exit', 'voice' alone works to ensure effectiveness of service delivery. Accountability of lower-level functionaries to superiors in a vertical line ministry is rarely effective. The paper spells out a model of deep democratic decentralization that has been demonstrated to work in a number of countries.