higher popular participation and increased efficiency in public service delivery. This paper is a qualitative assessment of … the reform, putting improvements in participation and efficiency at risk and ultimately jeopardising the intended impact … on poverty. -- decentralisation ; Uganda ; poverty reduction ; participation ; efficiency …

Unkonventionelle Partizipation in autoritären Regimen wird in der Regel als Bedrohung für das politische System und als … Gelegenheitsstruktur ; Beziehung zwischen Zentral- und Lokalregierungen ; unkonventionelle Partizipation ; Legitimität ; Protestereignis …Unconventional participation is by no means regime-threatening per se, not even in an au-thoritarian regime like China …

In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political systems are …

article indicate that authoritarian dispositions and practices are prevalent in all types of Vietnamese civic organizations …

, participation, and decision making provide important explanations for contestations over consultation practices and legal norms in … Guaraníes' participation in Bolivia's gas sector, this study finds that competing claims regarding territory, property … integrity"; (2) the state's conviction that it holds a monopoly over subsoil resources, and the limited rights to participation …