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Decentralization, Democracy, and Development in Africa (Paperback)
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Decentralization, Democracy, and Development in Africa (Paperback)
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Decentralization reforms introduced to Africa in the 1990s have not
always delivered the intended long-term outcomes. This is a
collection on the consequences of these reforms two decades on. In
addition to general and comparative overviews, the book contains
case studies on Ghana, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ethiopia, and
Uganda. The common theme across the chapters is that the reforms
seem to have engendered political consequences beyond
decentralization itself - mostly through interaction with the
broader historical, political, social, and economic context. The
book thus speaks both to the scholarly literature (on
decentralization, democratization, and development) and to the
community of development practitioners. Most of the literature on
decentralization and development emphasizes questions of
institutional design and policy, but here the harder-to-pin-down
political patterns marking the workings of decentralization are the
main focus of analysis. The debates on development, through the
case studies, are connected to the scholarly literatures on
comparative federalism, comparative decentralization, and local
democracy. The main conclusion that emerges from the studies in the
book is that no magic formula that can turn countries into
peaceful, stable, and prosperous democracies overnight exists.
Furthermore, there are risks involved in importing formal
institutions without regard to the local historical, political,
social, and economic context. The chapters of this book were
originally published as a special issue in Regional and Federal
Studies.
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