Decentralization and local governance in developing countries: a comparative perspective
by Bardhan, Pranab K. Mookherjee, Dilip
Title Statements
- Full title :Decentralization and local governance in developing countries : a comparative perspective / edited by Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vi, 363 p.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780262267694, 0262267691
- oclc:ocn955666292
- Dewey Decimal:320.809172/4
Table of Contents
The rise of local governments: an overview / Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee -- Inequality and innovation: decentralization as an opportunity structure in Brazil / Gianpaolo Baiocchi -- Decentralization, democratic transition, and local governance in Indonesia / Bert Hofman and Kai Kaiser -- Decentralizing Bolivia: local government in the jungle / Jean-Paul Faguet -- What difference does a constitutional amendment make? The 1994 Panchayati Raj Act and the attempt to revitalize rural local government in India / Shubham Chaudhuri -- Decentralization in West Bengal: origins, functioning, and impact / Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee -- Decentralization in Uganda / Omar Azfar, Jeffrey Livingston, and Patrick Meagher -- Local government reform in Pakistan: context, content, and causes / Ali Cheema, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, and Adnan Qadir -- Decentralization in Pakistan: are local governments likely to be more accountable than central government? / Philip E. Keefer, Ambar Narayan, and Tara Vishwanath -- Decentralization and local governance in China's economic transition / Justin Yifu Lin, Ran Tao, and Mingxing Liu -- Decentralization in South Africa / Martin Wittenberg.
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