Going Local : : Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance /

Going Local : : Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance / / Merilee S. Grindle.

Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have introduced decentralization to increase democracy and improve services, especially in small communities far from capital cities. In Going Local, an unprecedented...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Grindle, Merilee S.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 halftones. 9 line illus. 17 tables. 7 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • TABLES
  • ACRONYMS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Chapter 1. GOING LOCAL
  • Chapter 2. DECENTRALIZING MEXICO
  • Chapter 3. COMPETITIVE ELECTIONS AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
  • Chapter 4. AT WORK IN TOWN HALL
  • Chapter 5. MODERNIZING TOWN HALL
  • Chapter 6. CIVIL SOCIETY
  • Chapter 7. WHAT'S NEW?
  • Chapter 8. THE PROMISE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Index

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