Participation and Accountability at the Periphery: Democratic Local Governance in Six Countries
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...Previous research has suggested that a major constraint for effective decentralized decision making is that central governments rarely give up enough power or provide sufficient support to local authorities (Adamolekun 1991; Agrawal and Ribot 1999; Bahl 1999; Bird and Vaillancourt 1999; Blair 2000; Crook and Manor 1998; Gibson 1999; de Mello 2000; Parry 1997; Prud'homme 1994; Smoke 2003)....
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..., Gibson 1999; Murombedzi 2001), or to pass off a costly policy to subunits without the necessary administrative support (Adamolekun 1991; Agrawal and Ribot 1999; Bahl 1999; Bird and Vaillancourt 1999; Blair 2000; Crook and Manor 1998; Gibson 1999; de Mello 2000; Parry 1997; Prud'homme 1994)....
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...Several existing studies describe how inclusive decision making in decentralized local economies increases the quality of public services (Ackerman 2004; Cohen and Rogers 1995; Fung and Wright 2001; Goldfrank 2002), improves responsive ness and accountability of local government (Blair 2000; Fiszbein 1997; Goldfrank 2002; Ribot 1999), and even enhances equitable access to services and productive assets (Hardee et al....
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...Democratic decentralization is a key aspect of the participatory governance agenda, and is associated with the institutionalization of participation through regular elections, council hearings and, more recently, participatory budgeting (see, for example, Blair, 2000)....
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...Ensuring that alternative and marginalised voices have an opportunity to meaningfully participate in development decisions speaks to the principle of inclusion, which is essential to any sustainable development and poverty alleviation agenda (Blair, 2000; Craig and Porter, 2006; Grindle, 2004)....
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...1 The expanded use of community-based approaches by large-scale institutional actors has made more pressing the need to rigorously evaluate its foundational propositions and its vulnerability to elite capture (Blair, 2000; Conning and Kevane, 2002; Cooke and Kothari, 2002; Galasso and Ravallion, 2000; Mansuri and Rao, 2004; Platteau, 2004)....
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...…elite capture: Abraham and Platteau (2000); Baland and Platteau (1999); Bardhan (2002); Bardhan and Mookherjee (2000, 2002); Bienen et al. (1990); Blair (2000); Conning and Kevane (2002); Crook (2003); Das Gupta et al. (2004); Ebrahim (2003); Fung and Wright (2003); Olowu (2003); Platteau…...
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...…by large-scale institutional actors has made more pressing the need to rigorously evaluate its foundational propositions and its vulnerability to elite capture (Blair, 2000; Conning and Kevane, 2002; Cooke and Kothari, 2002; Galasso and Ravallion, 2000; Mansuri and Rao, 2004; Platteau, 2004)....
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...Closely related to that is the view that moving the locus of decision making away from central and local government bodies to communities promotes democratization (Abers, 2000; Blair, 2000; Diamond, 1999; Kohl, 2003; Wunch, 1998)....
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...Wilson (1987, 1996) in his well-known works, The Truly Disadvantaged (1987) and When Work Disap- pears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996) argues that US social programs to help minorities and the poor succeed in the long run only if they bene®t all groups, because only then is it possible to…...
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