The Local in Governance: Politics, Decentralization, and Environment

by Satyajit Singh

This study examines the political economy of how institutional designs for governance are created, and the role of local politics in shaping institutions. While some recent approaches to governance and decentralization are normative, economistic, and technocratic, The Local in Governance underlines the importance of the political. It studies the different architectures of decentralization, based on multiple ideas and values on the ground. The idea...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199468966
• ISBN13: 9780199468966
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"