only decentralization, but also democracy, from the bottom up. Beginning with Bolivia, I explore the deep economic and …I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics it unleashed in the much-noted case of Bolivia and … the less-noted case of Bangladesh. I argue that the national effects of decentralization are largely the sum of its local …

democratization. This study first explores the ways in which foreign donors directly strengthen civil society, parties, the media, as … accountability in decentralization and in public goods provision. …

What is decentralization, what is its underpinning rationale, and why might it matter for least-developed countries … decentralization into clear empirical conclusions; and (ii) to derive policy lessons relevant to least-developed countries. It first … reviews the different definitions of decentralization employed in the literature before proposing one best suited to countries …