Rural Local Governance And Development

Author : Mahi Pal
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9353287200

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Rural Local Governance and Development by Mahi Pal Pdf

"Rural Local Governance and Development introduces its readers to the concept of governance and various aspects of the Panchayat Raj Institutions, including Panchayats in the Fifth Scheduled Areas and the institutional arrangements in the Sixth and other Scheduled Areas. The book also focusses on the role of voluntary and community-based organizations, along with the participation of vulnerable groups and their involvement in the implementation of various programmes and schemes, strategies and policy instruments in rural development. Covering wider aspects of rural governance and development, this book provides knowledge of how people, communities, institutions and PRIs plan and implement development in rural India. The balanced blend of both theory and field insights make this textbook relevant to not only students of public administration, political science and development administration but also practitioners, civil society actors and researchers"--

Author : Doreen Atkinson
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Local government
ISBN : 0796920796

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Local Government, Local Governance and Sustainable Development by Doreen Atkinson Pdf

An examination of the transformation of South Africa's apartheid local government system into a development-oriented system of municipal governance, requiring, however, continuing short and long-term interventions on the part of both the central and provincial governments if it is to deliver its desired outputs.

Author : Akampurira Abraham
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783954896332

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Decentralisation, Local Governance and Development: An Aspect of Development by Akampurira Abraham Pdf

Communities need a holistic approach to address the problems that affect the people at the grass root. The planning of the direct beneficiaries involves decentralization in order to allow the lower power centers to widely take part in the development of society. Concerns of the grass root people form the need for decentralization and local governance. People’s involvement in the planning on the village level and all local government units, makes the identification and solving of the problem easier. High participatory levels of all the people especially the marginalized, encourages innovation to source for the appropriate solutions to the common problems that face society. It therefore calls a decentralized system that caters for the voters’ preferences while providing for their services. The people’s concerns call for local planning and the transfer of power to the public so that services are brought nearer to the people. This study will cover the aspects of local government and decentralization such as good governance, democratization, civil society, deconcentration, devolution and delegation, and its relation to the development of societies.

Author : Lynda Cheshire,Vaughan Higgins,Geoffrey Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134148646

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Rural Governance by Lynda Cheshire,Vaughan Higgins,Geoffrey Lawrence Pdf

Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches to planning and development, which are said to ‘empower’ rural citizens and liberate them from the disabling structures of top-down government control. At the same time, however, a range of other actors beyond the local level have also become increasingly influential in determining the future of rural spaces, thereby embedding rural citizens within new configurations of power relations. This book critically explores the social causes and consequences of these emerging governance arrangements. In particular, the book seeks to move beyond questions of empowerment in governance debates and to consider how new kinds of power relations arise between the various actors involved. The book addresses questions concerning the nature of power relations in contemporary forms of rural governance, including: how community participation is negotiated and achieved; the effects of such participation upon the formulation and delivery of rural policies; the kinds of conflicts that arise between various stakeholder groups and the capacity of each group to promote its interests; and the prospects of this new approach for enhanced democratic governance in rural areas.

Author : Eris D. Schoburgh,John Martin,Sonia Gatchair
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137558367

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Developmental Local Governance by Eris D. Schoburgh,John Martin,Sonia Gatchair Pdf

The primary purpose of this edited collection is to evaluate critically the relationship between local government and national economic development. It focuses on how the relationship between local government and development is structured, and the specific institutional arrangements at national and subnational levels that might facilitate local government's assumption of the role of development agent. In light of the contradictory outcomes of development and implied experimentation with new modalities, post-development discourse provides a useful explanatory framework for the book. Schoburgh, Martin and Gatchair's central argument is that the pursuit of national developmental goals is given a sustainable foundation when development planning and strategies take into account elements that have the potential to determine the rate of social transformation. Their emphasis on localism establishes a clear link between local government and local economic development in the context of developing countries.

Author : J. Norman Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : County government
ISBN : UIUC:30112019058954

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Rural Government Capacity by J. Norman Reid Pdf

Author : Frederick D. Stocker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Local government
ISBN : UIUC:30112071881020

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The Role of Local Government in Economic Development of Rural Areas by Frederick D. Stocker Pdf

Author : Fatih AYHAN
Publisher : Peter Lang D
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3631842015

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Local Governance and Regional Development: Current Perspectives by Fatih AYHAN Pdf

With the increase in urbanization after the Industrial Revolution, success in local governance and balanced regional development has become even more important for the increase of overall welfare.

Author : Hari K. Nagarajan,Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize,S. S. Meenakshisundaram
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : 9382264787

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Decentralization and Empowerment for Rural Development by Hari K. Nagarajan,Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize,S. S. Meenakshisundaram Pdf

Author : Anil Kumar Jana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : 8131606813

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Decentralizing Rural Governance and Development by Anil Kumar Jana Pdf

Decentralization, for local governance and development, is not only an institutional arrangement to be viewed simply from the perspective of public administration or to be confined exclusively to the domain of policy makers. It is something more. It is an ideology and a way of formulating and implementing policy decisions in public spheres and, as such, includes a variety of perspectives and aspects. Thus, decentralizing rural governance and development is viewed in this volume, not simply in terms of constitutionalizing and revamping the local level arrangements, but in premises of diverse ideas and experiments originating in the society. Based on research conducted in India, the book's contributors are experts, academics, and development professionals. The common thread highlights the thesis that the amendments, backed by an interplay of diverse socio-political forces, have made changes in the 'oceanic circle' of Indian society that are capable of ushering in a great beginning in the politics of inclusion. Indeed, a process of churning has begun in the democratic power structure of India to provide a legitimate share for millions.

Author : Dele Olowu,James Stevenson Wunsch
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588261735

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Local Governance in Africa by Dele Olowu,James Stevenson Wunsch Pdf

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 : André Torre,Jean-Baptiste Traversac
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790824223

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Territorial Governance by André Torre,Jean-Baptiste Traversac Pdf

This work aims to present the most recent developments regarding territorial governance, placing particular emphasis on rural and periurban areas. The reader will find information on the processes of development of European regions, as well as on the behaviours and strategies adopted by the different actors who live in these territories and contribute to the latter's livelihood. The first part of the book analyses the structural changes in the modes of production that have affected these territories. The second part addresses the questions of methodology and of the structures of governance of local development in rural areas. The last section makes an assessment of the geographical indications as tools of governance of local agrifood chains. The book was written by economists, geographers, land use planners and specialists of the questions of governance and management of rural and periurban areas.

Author : Krister Andersson,Gustavo Gordillo,Frank van Laerhoven
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816527016

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Local Governments and Rural Development by Krister Andersson,Gustavo Gordillo,Frank van Laerhoven Pdf

Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually increased during the past two decades. Experts blame excessively centralized public administrations for the lackluster performance of public policy initiatives. In response, decentralization reformshave become a common government strategy for improving public sector performance in rural areas. The effect of these reforms is a topic of considerable debate among government officials, policy scholars, and citizensÕ groups. This book offers a systematic analysis of how local governments and farmer groups in Latin America are actually faring today. Based on interviews with more than 1,200 mayors, local officials, and farmers in 390 municipal territories in four Latin American nations, the authors analyze the ways in which different forms of decentralization affect the governance arrangements for rural development Òon the ground.Ó Their comparative analysis suggests that rural development outcomes are systemically linked to locally negotiated institutional arrangementsÑformal and informalÑbetween government officials, NGOs, and farmer groups that operate in the local sphere. They find that local-government actors contribute to public services that better assist the rural poor when local actors cooperate to develop their own institutional arrangements for participatory planning, horizontal learning, and the joint production of services. This study brings substantive data and empirical analysis to a discussion that has, until now, more often depended on qualitative research in isolated cases. With more than 60 percent of Latin AmericaÕs rural population living in poverty, the results are both timely and crucial.

Author : Pranab Bardhan,Dilip Mookherjee
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262524544

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Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries by Pranab Bardhan,Dilip Mookherjee Pdf

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 the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries examine this institutional transformation from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, offering detailed case studies of decentralization in eight countries: Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda. Some of these countries witnessed an unprecedented "big bang" shift toward comprehensive political and economic decentralization: Bolivia in 1995 and Indonesia after the fall of Suharto in 1998. Brazil and India decentralized in an uneven and more gradual manner. In some other countries (such as Pakistan), devolution represented an instrument for consolidation of power of a nondemocratic national government. In China, local governments were granted much economic but little political power. South Africa made the transition from the undemocratic decentralization of apartheid to decentralization under a democratic constitution. The studies provide a comparative perspective on the political and economic context within which decentralization took place, and how this shaped its design and possible impact. Contributors Omar Azfar, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Pranab Bardhan, Shubham Chaudhuri, Ali Cheema, Jean-Paul Faguet, Bert Hofman, Kai Kaiser, Philip E. Keefer, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Justin Yifu Lin, Mingxing Liu, Jeffrey Livingston, Patrick Meagher, Dilip Mookherjee, Ambar Narayan, Adnan Qadir, Ran Tao, Tara Vishwanath, Martin Wittenberg

Author : Doreen Atkinson,Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Local government
ISBN : OCLC:483889870

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Local Government, Local Governance and Sustainable Development by Doreen Atkinson,Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa) Pdf