studies conducted across Latin American municipalities in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico, however, authors believe the …

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 …-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must first understand how local government works. This implies analysing not …