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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGrindle, Merilee S.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aGoing Local :
_bDecentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance /
_cMerilee S. Grindle.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource (256 p.) :
_b10 halftones. 9 line illus. 17 tables. 7 maps.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tILLUSTRATIONS --
_tTABLES --
_tACRONYMS --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tChapter 1. GOING LOCAL --
_tChapter 2. DECENTRALIZING MEXICO --
_tChapter 3. COMPETITIVE ELECTIONS AND GOOD GOVERNANCE --
_tChapter 4. AT WORK IN TOWN HALL --
_tChapter 5. MODERNIZING TOWN HALL --
_tChapter 6. CIVIL SOCIETY --
_tChapter 7. WHAT'S NEW? --
_tChapter 8. THE PROMISE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE --
_tNOTES --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aMany developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have introduced decentralization to increase democracy and improve services, especially in small communities far from capital cities. In Going Local, an unprecedented study of the effects of decentralization on thirty Mexican municipalities, Merilee Grindle describes how local governments respond when they are assigned new responsibilities and resources under decentralization policies. She explains why decentralization leads to better local governments in some cases--and why it fails to in others. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, Grindle examines data based on a random sample of Mexican municipalities--and ventures into town halls to follow public officials as they seek to manage a variety of tasks amid conflicting pressures and new expectations. Decentralization, she discovers, is a double-edged sword. While it allows public leaders to make significant reforms quickly, institutional weaknesses undermine the durability of change, and legacies of the past continue to affect how public problems are addressed. Citizens participate, but they are more successful at extracting resources from government than in holding local officials and agencies accountable for their actions. The benefits of decentralization regularly predicted by economists, political scientists, and management specialists are not inevitable, she argues. Rather, they are strongly influenced by the quality of local leadership and politics.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aDecentralization in government
_zMexico.
650 0 _aDecentralization in government.
650 0 _aLocal government
_zMexico.
650 0 _aLocal government.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Local.
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