Author: Dele Olowu
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588261731
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An exploration of why some decentralization reforms have led to viable systems of local governance in Africa, while others have failed. It outlines the key issues involved, provides historical context, and identifies the factors that have encouraged or discouraged success.
Local Governance in Africa
Author: Dele Olowu
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588261731
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An exploration of why some decentralization reforms have led to viable systems of local governance in Africa, while others have failed. It outlines the key issues involved, provides historical context, and identifies the factors that have encouraged or discouraged success.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588261731
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An exploration of why some decentralization reforms have led to viable systems of local governance in Africa, while others have failed. It outlines the key issues involved, provides historical context, and identifies the factors that have encouraged or discouraged success.
Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries
Author: Pranab K. Bardhan
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780262267694
Category : Comparative government
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives on the current trend in the developing world of devolving political and economic power to local governments.
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780262267694
Category : Comparative government
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives on the current trend in the developing world of devolving political and economic power to local governments.
Spreading Power to the Periphery
Author: Harry W. Blair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Local Governance in the Global Context
Author: Chin-peng Chu
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643900368
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Local governance has become a subject of particular interest, even in the context of globalization. As a bottom-up strategy, it aims is to increase the opportunities for civil society to engage in affairs of their own. As a top-down strategy, it wants to mobilize all endogenous potential available to improve political steering capacity. This book examines the theoretical approaches towards citizens' participation and provides case studies that indicate a varied menu of contemporary local democracies, urban and regional governance in Europe (Germany, Sweden, and Italy), Asia (Korea and Taiwan) and the US. (Series: Politikwissenschaft - Vol. 172)
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643900368
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Local governance has become a subject of particular interest, even in the context of globalization. As a bottom-up strategy, it aims is to increase the opportunities for civil society to engage in affairs of their own. As a top-down strategy, it wants to mobilize all endogenous potential available to improve political steering capacity. This book examines the theoretical approaches towards citizens' participation and provides case studies that indicate a varied menu of contemporary local democracies, urban and regional governance in Europe (Germany, Sweden, and Italy), Asia (Korea and Taiwan) and the US. (Series: Politikwissenschaft - Vol. 172)
Bootstrapping Democracy
Author: Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080476056X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080476056X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society.
Decentralized Democratic Governance in New Millennium
Author: U. B. Singh
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180695407
Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180695407
Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Foundations for Local Governance
Author: Fumihiko Saito
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3790820067
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Successful reforms need coherent approaches in which a range of stakeholders are willing to share responsibilities and resources in order to achieve the ultimate outcome of poverty reduction in developing countries. This book provides a framework to access intended outcomes generated by decentralization measures implemented in Asian and African countries. It is based on comparative analyses of different experiences of decentralization measures in six developing countries.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3790820067
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Successful reforms need coherent approaches in which a range of stakeholders are willing to share responsibilities and resources in order to achieve the ultimate outcome of poverty reduction in developing countries. This book provides a framework to access intended outcomes generated by decentralization measures implemented in Asian and African countries. It is based on comparative analyses of different experiences of decentralization measures in six developing countries.
Democratic Local Governance
Author: G. Shabbir Cheema
Publisher: UN
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Asian countries have introduced major reforms and new institutional mechanisms in recent years to promote the engagement of elected local governments, civil society, and the private sector. This book examines emerging issues in democratic local governance and factors that influenced the impetus for and the substance of reforms. It asks the following questions: - What have been the challenges in designing and implementing decentralization policies and programs? - What are the constraints on strengthening citizen participation? - Can reforms promote gender and rights perspectives in local governance? - What is the role of local government in service delivery and access? - How effective are the mechanisms for accountability and transparency in local governance? - What are the driving forces influencing democratic local governance reform? The book addresses these questions as it discusses studies from theoretical and comparative perspectives on specific issues as well as myriad cases across Asia, often dealing with country-specific reforms.
Publisher: UN
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Asian countries have introduced major reforms and new institutional mechanisms in recent years to promote the engagement of elected local governments, civil society, and the private sector. This book examines emerging issues in democratic local governance and factors that influenced the impetus for and the substance of reforms. It asks the following questions: - What have been the challenges in designing and implementing decentralization policies and programs? - What are the constraints on strengthening citizen participation? - Can reforms promote gender and rights perspectives in local governance? - What is the role of local government in service delivery and access? - How effective are the mechanisms for accountability and transparency in local governance? - What are the driving forces influencing democratic local governance reform? The book addresses these questions as it discusses studies from theoretical and comparative perspectives on specific issues as well as myriad cases across Asia, often dealing with country-specific reforms.
Local Elites, Political Capital and Democratic Development
Author: Stefan Szücs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3531901109
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This book helps to understand in which ways local governing elites are important for the success or failure of national democratic development. Although we know a great deal about the general importance of civil society and social capital for the development of sustainable democracy, we still know little about what specific local governing qualities or political capital that interact with democratic development. The collected data covers time series of surveys from between 15 to 30 political and administrative leaders in over a hundred middle-sized European and Eurasian cities. The study takes us across the 1980s and 1990s, going from cities in Sweden and the Netherlands - through the Baltic cities - to the cities of Belarus and Russia. The findings show the importance of local political capital based on commitments to core democratic values, informal governance networks, and the significance of initially connecting the community to global, non-economic relationships.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3531901109
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This book helps to understand in which ways local governing elites are important for the success or failure of national democratic development. Although we know a great deal about the general importance of civil society and social capital for the development of sustainable democracy, we still know little about what specific local governing qualities or political capital that interact with democratic development. The collected data covers time series of surveys from between 15 to 30 political and administrative leaders in over a hundred middle-sized European and Eurasian cities. The study takes us across the 1980s and 1990s, going from cities in Sweden and the Netherlands - through the Baltic cities - to the cities of Belarus and Russia. The findings show the importance of local political capital based on commitments to core democratic values, informal governance networks, and the significance of initially connecting the community to global, non-economic relationships.
Democratic Local Governance in the Philippines
Author: Joel M. Jutkowitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil society
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil society
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description