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Decentralisation on Fallow and Fertile Ground: Preparing the Population for Democratic Self-Governance
Krishna, Anirudh - eSocialSciences - 2006
Decentralizing authority to democratically elected local government is advised for reasons of efficiency and good governance, but equity may suffer if elites capture decision making at the local level. What safeguards can help promote equitable and participatory decentralization? This question...
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Institutionalising Citizen Participaion in Urban Governance
Ramanathan, Ramesh - eSocialSciences - 2006
The twin concepts of a federal arrangement – a structure for a multi-tiered form of government with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, as well as active citizenship are like the two strands of the DNA of good public governance. And we are in the early evolutionary stages of both...
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Decentralisation as a Policy Process in India
Kumar, V. Anil - eSocialSciences - 2007
This article argues that decentralisation in India should be seen as a policy process. It is a policy process in the … sense that multiple actors, and agencies influence the decentralisation process at all levels of the polity. While this may … appear obvious, regarding decentralisation as a policy process requires: a) analysis of this process not at one level or as …
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