In the 1980s and 1990s, much of the developing world experienced
transitions to democracy accompanied by economic liberalization and
decentralization of power to subnational governmental bodies. The
process of decentralization has been studied intensively, but
little attention has been paid so far to the recentralization that
has occurred in some countries in the past decade. In this book, J.
Tyler Dickovick seeks to illuminate how the processes of
decentralization and recentralization are interrelated and what the
dynamics of each is. He argues that decentralization occurs as a
result of the decline in the power of the presidency, whereas
recentralization occurs when the president resolves an
extraordinary economic crisis. The processes of decentralization
and recentralization, Dickovick further argues, have the same
dynamics whether they occur in federal or unitary states. To test
the theory, Dickovick compares a strong federal system, Brazil,
with a weak one, South Africa, and compares these in turn with two
unitary regimes, Peru and Senegal. Decentralization and
Recentralization in the Developing World provides a much more
nuanced understanding of when and why decentralization and
recentralization happen, and what their importance is to
intergovernmental shifts in power.
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