and accountable government than elsewhere in Africa after independence with the desire and incentive to adopt good …. There are many lessons for other African countries from these policy choices. -- governance ; patrimonialism ; state …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity … account for government quality dynamics of corruption-control, government-effectiveness, voice and accountability, political … democracy that takes into account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a …

Part 1. The Setting. Decentralized governance and development in India : An introduction -- Seeing PRIs in India and …. Political decentralization : Role of political parties from colonial times -- Rural local governance and administrative …, challenges and ways ahead -- Part 3. Decentralized Rural Governance. Deliberative democracy through Grama Sabha : Progress and …