Decentralizing Development The Political Economy of Institutional Change in Columbia and Chile |
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| Author:
| Angell, Alan
Lowden, Pamela
Thorp, Rosemary |
| Series title: | Queen Elizabeth House Series in Development Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-924231-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2001 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $91.00 |
Book Description:
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Does decentralization work in practice? Does it strengthen local level democracy and economic development? This book examines these questions by analysing the experience of seven medium sized cities in Colombia and Chile. The authors draw on extensive fieldwork involving numerous interviews with actors at all levels and from all sectors. The result is a unique test, at the local level in Latin America, of the outcome of reforms to the institutional structure of government.
Does decentralization work in practice? Does it strengthen local level democracy and economic development? This book examines these questions by analysing the experience of seven medium sized cities in Colombia and Chile. The authors draw on extensive fieldwork involving numerous interviews with actors at all levels and from all sectors. The result is a unique test, at the local level in Latin America, of the outcome of reforms to the institutional structure of government.