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Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance
Merilee S. Grindle
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Description for Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance
Paperback. A study of the effects of decentralization on thirty Mexican municipalities. It describes how local governments respond when they are assigned new responsibilities and resources under decentralization policies. It explains why decentralization leads to better local governments in some cases - and why it fails to in others. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 halftones. 9 line illus. 17 tables. 7 maps. BIC Classification: JPH; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
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 study of the effects of decentralization on thirty Mexican municipalities, Merilee Grindle describes how local governments respond when they are assigned new responsibilities and resources under decentralization policies. She explains why decentralization leads to better local governments in some cases--and why it fails to in others. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, Grindle examines data based on a random ... Read more
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 study of the effects of decentralization on thirty Mexican municipalities, Merilee Grindle describes how local governments respond when they are assigned new responsibilities and resources under decentralization policies. She explains why decentralization leads to better local governments in some cases--and why it fails to in others. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, Grindle examines data based on a random ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691140988
SKU
V9780691140988
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About Merilee S. Grindle
Merilee S. Grindle is Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author, most recently, of Despite the Odds: The Contentious Politics of Education Reform (Princeton).
Reviews for Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance
In analyzing the exciting array of promising reforms as well as the inertia of clientelistic traditions, Grindle weights the introduction of political-party competition, the role of innovative ideas and entrepreneurial leaders, the implementation of modern methods of public administration, and the logic of civil society.
Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs Merilee Grindle has already made her reputation as a painstaking ... Read more
Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs Merilee Grindle has already made her reputation as a painstaking ... Read more