Decentralized Governance and Accountability: Academic Research and the Future of Donor Programming

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ISBN 10: 110849790X / ISBN 13: 9781108497909

Published by -, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decentralized Governance and Accountability: Academic Research and the Future of Donor Programming
• Publisher: -
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110849790X
• ISBN 13: 9781108497909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

At the end of the twentieth century, academics and policymakers welcomed a trend toward fiscal and political decentralization as part of a potential solution for slow economic growth and poor performance by insulated, unaccountable governments. For the last two decades, researchers have been trying to answer a series of vexing questions about the political economy of multi-layered governance. Much of the best recent research on decentralization has come from close collaborations between university researchers and international aid institutions. As the volume and quality of this collaborative research have increased in recent decades, the time has come to review the lessons from this literature and apply them to debates about future programming. In this volume, the contributors place this research in the broader history of engagement between aid institutions and academics, particularly in the area of decentralized governance, and outline the challenges and opportunities to link evidence and policy action.

About the Authors

Jonathan A. Rodden is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and founder of the Stanford Spatial Social Science Lab. He is author of an award-winning book, Hamilton's Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism (Cambridge, 2005), as well as a new book on political geography, Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide (forthcoming).

Erik Wibbels is the Robert O. Keohane Professor of Political Science at Duke University, North Carolina, and the co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series. His research focuses on development, redistribution, and political geography. He also works with bilateral and multilateral donors to improve the design and evaluation of governance programming and is a founding member of the DevLab@Duke.