Is decentralization good for development perspectives from academics and policy makers 1st Edition by Jean Paul Faguet, Caroline Poschl ISBN 0198737505 978-0198737506

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ISBN 10: 0198737505 

ISBN 13: 978-0198737506

Author:  Jean-Paul Faguet, Caroline Poschl

 Is decentralisation good for development? This book offers insights and lessons that help us understand when the answer is ‘Yes’, and when it is No’. It shows us how decentralisation can be designed to drive development forward, and focuses attention on how institutional incentives can be created for governments to improve public sector performance and strengthen economies in ways that enhance citizen well-being. It also draws attention to the political motives behind decentralisation reforms and how these shape the institutions that result.
This book brings together academics working at the frontier of research on decentralization with policymakers who have implemented reform at the highest levels of government and international organizations. Its purpose is to marry policymakers’ detailed knowledge and insights about real reform processes with academics’ conceptual clarity and analytical rigor. This synthesis naturally shifts the analysis towards deeper questions of decentralization, stability, and the strength of the state. These are explored in Part 1, with deep studies of the effects of reform on state capacity, political and fiscal stability, and democratic inclusiveness in Bolivia, Pakistan, India, and Latin America more broadly. These complex questions – crucially important to policymakers but difficult to address with statistics – yield before a multipronged attack of quantitative and qualitative evidence combined with deep practitioner insight. How should reformers design decentralisation? Part 2 examines these issues with evidence from four decades of reform in developing and developed countries. What happens after reform is implemented? Decentralization and local service provision turns to decentralization’s effects on health and education services, anti-poverty programs with original evidence from 12 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Table of contents: 

Part I Decentralization, Stability, and the Strengthening of the State

1.Is Decentralization Good For Development? Perspectives from Academics and Policy Makers

2.Why I Decentralized Bolivia

3.Breaking the Countercyclical Pattern of Local Democracy in Pakistan

4.Inclusive Governance for Inclusive Development: The History, Politics, and Economics of Panchayat Raj

5.Is Latin America on a Path to Sustainable Fiscal Decentralization?

6.Does Decentralization Strengthen or Weaken the State? Authority and Social Learning in a Supple State

Part II Designing Decentralization: Taxes, Transfers, and Expenditures

7. A Fiscal Interest Approach to Subnational Government Incentives: Implications for the Design of Tax and Transfer Systems

8. Maintaining Taxes at the Centre Despite Decentralization: Interactions with National Reforms

9. Political Capture of Decentralization: Vote Buying through Grants to Local Jurisdictions

Part III Decentralization and Local Service Provision

10. Does Yardstick Competition Influence Local Government Fiscal Behavior in the Philippines?

11. Area-Based Competitions and Awards as a Motivational Tool for Public Service Provision: The Experience of Xining, China

12. Empirical Studies of an Approach to Decentralization: “Decision Space” in Decentralized Health Systems

13. Political Participation, Clientelism, and Targeting of Local Government Programs: Results from a Rural Household Survey in West Bengal, India

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