Decentralized Governance and Accountability最新文献

Clientelism in Decentralized States 权力下放国家的庇护主义

Decentralized Governance and Accountability Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.1017/9781108615594.010

Gianmarco León, Léonard Wantchékon

引用次数: 2

Traditional Leaders, Service Delivery, and Electoral Accountability 传统领导人、服务提供和选举问责制

Decentralized Governance and Accountability Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.1017/9781108615594.004

Kate Baldwin, Pia J. Raffler

{"title":"Traditional Leaders, Service Delivery, and Electoral Accountability","authors":"Kate Baldwin, Pia J. Raffler","doi":"10.1017/9781108615594.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615594.004","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional leaders and customary governance institutions remain important, especially at the local level, in many low-income countries. Indeed, many observers have noted a recent resurgence in the importance of traditional institutions (Englebert, 2002; Holzinger, Kern and Kromrey, 2015; Logan, 2009), contrary to the expectations and goals of modernists (Mamdani, 1996). The persistence and revival of these institutions is particularly obvious in Africa (Baldwin, 2016b; Logan, 2013), but has also been noted in Latin America (Dı́az-Cayeros, Magaloni and Ruiz-Euler, 2014; Van Cott, 2008) and Asia (Henley and Davidson, 2008; Murtazashvili, 2016). As a result, aid agencies are constantly making choices about how best to interact with traditional leaders. In programming areas as diverse as justice, the environment, security sector reform, public health and community empowerment, donors need to decide how to treat traditional chiefs, whether it be by adopting conscious strategies of engagement, choosing deliberate policies of avoidance, or taking ad hoc decisions based on the logistical needs in specific settings.1 In light of this, the goal of this chapter is to review recent evidence on the effects of traditional leaders on locally organized public goods provision, government performance and electoral accountability, with an eye to informing future choices by policymakers and program coordinators. This topic is relevant to aid agencies working in diverse geographic areas, although as an empirical matter, most academic research on this topic has been conducted in sub-Saharan Africa. ⇤Department of Political Science, Yale University, katharine.baldwin@yale.edu. †Department of Government, Harvard University, praffler@fas.harvard.edu. 1For examples of each of these types of choices, see Sheely (2013b), Denney (2013), and Vajja and White (2006) respectively.","PeriodicalId":338737,"journal":{"name":"Decentralized Governance and Accountability","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131655925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 16

Decentralized Rule and Revenue 去中心化规则与收入

Decentralized Governance and Accountability Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.1017/9781108615594.005

J. Rodden

引用次数: 8

The Social Underpinnings of Decentralized Governance 分权治理的社会基础

Decentralized Governance and Accountability Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.1017/9781108615594.002

Erik Wibbels

{"title":"The Social Underpinnings of Decentralized Governance","authors":"Erik Wibbels","doi":"10.1017/9781108615594.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615594.002","url":null,"abstract":"Accountable governance is defined by four elements: First, the definition of interests on the part of citizens and groups of citizens; second, the aggregation or accumulation of those interests via some “technology”, whether it be by an election, lobby, or social media; third, the translation of those preferences into government behavior; and fourth, a means whereby citizens can evaluate the quality of government behavior. Decentralization has the potential to impact each of these links. Most of the rigorous thinking on how it does so has been institutional in nature. In other words, it has focused on how formal rules governing elections, leadership selection, fiscal federalism, etc. impact political accountability. Donor programming and accompanying impact evaluations, on the other hand, have focused less on institutions and more on mobilizing civil society and “social accountability”, i.e. on approaches to informing and mobilizing citizens such that they might become better participants in politics. These programming efforts have progressed with considerable normative enthusiasm but without, for the most part, reference to recent academic breakthroughs on the social conditions for cooperative behavior and collective action. The goal of this chapter is to consider how recent innovations in the study of information flows and cooperation in social networks might inform donor programming on social accountability. Research on social networks provides insights into the relational characteristics of communities that are certain to impact the prospects for accountability, and gives rigorous underpinnings into the frequent, if underspecified, claim that “context matters”.","PeriodicalId":338737,"journal":{"name":"Decentralized Governance and Accountability","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115399889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Decentralization and Business Performance 分权与业务绩效

Decentralized Governance and Accountability Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.1017/9781108615594.007

Edmund J. Malesky

引用次数: 1

Decentralization in Post-Conflict Settings 冲突后环境中的权力下放

Decentralized Governance and Accountability Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.1017/9781108615594.009

Fotini Christia

引用次数: 1

Decentralization and Ethnic Diversity 分权与民族多样性

Decentralized Governance and Accountability Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.1017/9781108615594.011

T. Dunning

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Index 指数

Decentralized Governance and Accountability Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.1017/9781108615594.013

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The Proliferation of Decentralized Governing Units 分散管理单位的扩散

Decentralized Governance and Accountability Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.1017/9781108615594.006

Jan H Pierskalla

引用次数: 11

Leadership Selection Rules and Decentralized Governance 领导选择规则与分权治理

Decentralized Governance and Accountability Pub Date : 2019-03-31 DOI: 10.1017/9781108615594.003

Guy Grossman

引用次数: 1