The Imperative of Good Local Governance: Challenges for the Next Decade of Decentralization - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9280812297 ISBN 13: 9789280812299

Publisher: United Nations University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This publication is a true state-of-the-art volume in the field of local governance, decentralization and local democracy summarizing a substantial part of the insights from original research in the last decade. It also looks ahead at explicit policy relevance, paving the way for innovative thinking (and acting) on the next phase of development. In a unique way it brings together authoritative contributions from authors that to a large extent have been defining the field for the last decade or more. From a theoretical perspective it is adjoining top–down and bottom–up rationalities, which is further illuminated through a wide variety of key case studies. The volume concludes that overall, local development and local politics will not go away – it has a huge potential – but also that the field is full of unfulfilled promises, some of which could be remedied through the perspectives revealed in this volume.

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About the Author

Joakim Öjendal is professor in Peace and Development Research at Gothenburg University. He has previously worked on, among other things, democratization, peacebuilding, decentralization, and local governance and published in leading journals. Among his recent works are: Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post Conflict Societ (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2009). Anki Dellnäs is a local governance consultant currently based in Cambodia.

Edition details

• Publisher: United Nations University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9280812297
• ISBN 13: 9789280812299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 460
• Editor: Öjendal Joakim, Dellnäs Anki