Local Government in the Third World
Author | : Philip Mawhood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Philip Mawhood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anwar Shah |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821365665 |
This book provides a new institutional economics perspective on alternative models of local governance, offering a comprehensive view of local government organization and finance in the developing world. The experiences of ten developing/transition economies are reviewed to draw lessons of general interest in strengthening responsive, responsible, and accountable local governance. The book is written in simple user friendly language to facilitate a wider readership by policy makers and practitioners in addition to students and scholars of public finance, economics and politics.
Author | : P. Mawhood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi |
Publisher | : South Asia Books |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9788170261605 |
Author | : Philip Mawhood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780835729543 |
Author | : Gerhard Tötemeyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leendert Theodoor van den Dool |
Publisher | : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V. |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9059720997 |
This book looks at the development of local government on a global scale: its history, practice, and future. Leon van den Dool explores local government from a practical standpoint, including human resource policy and financial management, offers a concise summary of modern public management theories, and links this theory with practice, providing case studies from countries at different stages of development. A valuable tool for students and scholars of management, Making Local Government Work is also an excellent overview for anyone interested in how such organizations really operate.
Author | : Pranab Bardhan |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2006-06-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0262524546 |
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 | : World Bank |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2016-07-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1464807744 |
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Author | : Harold Freed Alderfer |
Publisher | : New York, McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Comparative government |
ISBN | : |