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出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Merilee S. Grindle

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頁數:256

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出版時間:2007-4-15

價格:GBP 30.95

裝幀:Hardcover

isbn號碼:9780691129075

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圖書標籤:

比較政治
政治學
比較政治經濟學
拉美研究
公共政策
專業
thesis
OperationUranus
本地生活
社區發展
地方文化
城市探索
生活方式
地域特色
本土經濟
居民故事
地域認同
地方實踐

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Many 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.

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圖書目錄

List of Illustrations ix
List of Tables xi
Acronyms xiii
Acknowledgments xv
CHAPTER ONE: Going Local: Governance on the Line 1
CHAPTER TWO: Decentralizing Mexico: A Cautious Journey 25
CHAPTER THREE: Competitive Elections and Good Governance 63
CHAPTER FOUR: At Work in Town Hall: Leadership and Performance 85
CHAPTER FIVE: Modernizing Town Hall 106
CHAPTER SIX: Civil Society: Extracting Benefits and Demanding Accountability 124
CHAPTER SEVEN: What's New? Patterns of Municipal Innovation 145
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Promise of Good Governance 164
Notes 187
Bibliography 205
Index 217
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