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Title

Decentralization and local governance in developing countries : a comparative perspective / edited by Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Bardhan, Pranab K.
• Mookherjee, Dilip.

Description

vi, 363 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Decentralization in government > Developing countries
• Local government > Developing countries
• Comparative government
• Developing countries > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0262026007 (alk. paper)
• 0262524546 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005058425

OCLC

• 76966941
• SCSB-10581813

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library