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Author : G. R. Tressie Leitan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Central-local government relations
ISBN : UOM:39015029947267
Author : Ignacio Lago
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1839103272
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 theoretical developments and empirical approaches in the study of decentralization, exploring how decentralization is conceptualized and measured. Chapters examine central topics including how the degree and type of decentralization varies over time and across countries, how political decentralization affects the behaviour of parties and voters, and the social and economic consequences of decentralizing power. Offering a comparative perspective, the Handbook utilizes insightful international case studies from Latin America, North America, Western Europe and Asia. Attention is also paid to the impact of the Great Recession of 2008 and the Covid-19 pandemic on intergovernmental relations. This Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of political geography and geopolitics, regulation and governance, and international politics. It will also be useful for practitioners in these fields who are interested in decentralization.
Author : James Manor
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015042983646
Nearly all countries worldwide are now experimenting with decentralization. Their motivation are diverse. Many countries are decentralizing because they believe this can help stimulate economic growth or reduce rural poverty, goals central government interventions have failed to achieve. Some countries see it as a way to strengthen civil society and deepen democracy. Some perceive it as a way to off-load expensive responsibilities onto lower level governments. Thus, decentralization is seen as a solution to many different kinds of problems. This report examines the origins and implications decentralization from a political economy perspective, with a focus on its promise and limitations. It explores why countries have often chosen not to decentralize, even when evidence suggests that doing so would be in the interests of the government. It seeks to explain why since the early 1980s many countries have undertaken some form of decentralization. This report also evaluates the evidence to understand where decentralization has considerable promise and where it does not. It identifies conditions needed for decentralization to succeed. It identifies the ways in which decentralization can promote rural development. And it names the goals which decentralization will probably not help achieve.
Author : G. R. Tressie Leitan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Central-local government relations
ISBN : UCAL:B3878386
Author : Winluck Wahiu,Markus Böckenförde,Nora Hedling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : OCLC:779852624
"A Practical Guide to Constitution Building provides an essential foundation for understanding constitutions and constitution building. Full of world examples of ground-breaking agreements and innovative provisions adopted during processes of constitutional change, the Guide offers a wide range of examples of how constitutions develop and how their development can establish and entrench democratic values. Beyond comparative examples, the Guide contains in-depth analysis of key components of constitutions and the forces of change that shape them. The Guide analyzes the adoption of the substantive elements of a new constitution by looking at forces for the aggregation or dissemination of governmental power, and forces for greater legalization or politicization of governmental power, and examining how these forces influence the content of the constitution. It urges practitioners to look carefully at the forces at play within their individual contexts in order to better understand constitutional dynamics and play a role in shaping a constitution that will put into place a functioning democratic government and foster lasting peace."--
Author : Jesse Craig Ribot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : MINN:31951D02188509E
References pp. 115-132.
Author : James Tyler Dickovick,James Stevenson Wunsch
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1626370532
In recent decades laws passed by African governments to transfer power and resources to local and other subnational governments (SNGs) have been greeted by many in the policy community with enthusiasm. But how far has decentralization really gone in Africa? How well does it work? And what have been its consequences? The authors of Decentralization in Africa work within a common conceptual framework to examine the process in 10 countries contrasting clear increases in the legal authority of SNGs with the reality of limited successes in deepening democracy.
Author : Indi Ruwangi Akurugoda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319585864
This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development. Based on research in the southern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka, this project analyses the views of national, provincial and local level political representatives, administrative officials, and NGO officials.
Author : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210574020
The Asia-Pacific Development Journal (APDJ) is published twice a year by the Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. The primary objective of the APDJ is to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge, experience, ideas, information and data on all aspects of economic and social development issues and concerns facing the region and aims to stimulate policy debate and assist policy formulation. The Asian development experience has stood out as an extraordinary example of what can be achieved when policy makers, experts, scholars and people at large harness their creativity, knowledge and foresight. The APDJ has been a proud partner in this process, providing a scholarly means for bringing together research work by eminent social scientists and development practitioners from the region and beyond for use by a variety of stakeholders. Over the years, the Journal has emerged as a key United Nations publication in telling the Asian development story in a concise, coherent and impartial manner to stimulate policy debate and assist policy formulation in the region.
Author : Shinichi Shigetomi
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814517386
There is already much literature on the significance of NGOs in the development process. However, there has been little discussion on why the NGOs take on different forms in different countries. This volume examines the state-NGO relationships in fifteen countries. It is not, however, a pot-pourri of country reports. All the contributors use the same analytical framework and focus on the key concept of "e;economic and political space"e; for NGOs. Readers will find that the analysis of the various NGO forms is well synthesized in this volume.
Author : Thomas Jandl
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739177877
This book is, in essence, about incentives: the incentives for competing societal interest groups to cooperate with each other to benefit from a growing economic pie, rather than fighting over a bigger share of a smaller one. This is the conundrum of economic development. If elite interest groups have both incentive and ability to allocate resources toward themselves, and if such rent seeking causes a decline in economic inefficiency, how can economies ever grow? The book illuminates the mechanisms by which in one of the world’s recent economic success stories— Vietnam’s rapid industrialization and passage into the middle-income category—the interest in cooperating to grow the economy overrode the elites’ instinct to allocate resources through the use of political power. The book shows how the need to provide positive conditions for international investment altered pay-off structures and pushed the all-powerful Communist Party of Vietnam to engage in bargaining with provincial officials; provincial officials with international investors; and finally all coercive elites even with the working classes. It describes the emergence of a harmony of interest among societal groups in which each group benefits from a growing economy, and no one group can monopolize the benefits of growth without hurting itself. The Vietnam case validates Nobel-Prize winning economist Mancur Olson’s proposition that elite predation can only be kept in check when the elite itself suffers from the economic decline it causes at least as much as it gains from the rents it collects.
Author : Shinichi Shigetomi
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812301529
This volume examines the state-NGO relationships in fifteen Asian countries.
Author : Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso
Publisher : International Development Research Centre Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019810618
The collected essays in this book provide a comparative examination of the process of grassroots mobilization and the development of community-based forms of popular democracy in Central and South America. The first part contains studies from individual countries on organizations ranging from those supported by governments and integrated into the country's political structure to groups that were organized against the existing political system. The organizations studied included those focusing on a particular concern, such as housing, and those with wide responsibility for community affairs; but all were organizations based on common interests where people lived and, in some cases, where people worked. The second part offers theme studies on men, women and differential participation; problems and meanings associated with decentralization, especially in relation to devolution of power to the local level and the construction of popular alternatives; and the competing theoretical paradigms of new social movements and resource mobilization.
Author : Dele Olowu,James Stevenson Wunsch
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588261735
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.
Author : Jonathan A. Rodden,Erik Wibbels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108497909
Reviews recent lessons about decentralized governance and implications for future development programs and policies.