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Going local : decentralization and the promise of good governance /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2009, ©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 c. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 278 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400830350 1400830354 |