governance and service delivery. This has been largely in the context of decentralization reforms in which central governments … international support and advocacy for participatory governance where citizen's voice plays a key role in decision making of …

competitive as possible. In many cases, this is done through state control over metropolitan areas and their governance … arrangements. This article examines the relationship between state control and metropolitan governance capacity based on a … metropolitan governance, as well as different forms of state control. We studied state control by focusing on political and …