Decentralisation and engendering democracy : lessons from local government reform in South Africa

Abstract: The paper shows how competing interests remain clustered around local government in ways that tend to exclude women. It also suggests that South African women do not have as secure a footing in local government structures as in other tiers of government.

Author(s): Beall, Jo

Source(s): , Crisis states programme working papers. Series 1; 54 21 p., ill., tabs Crisis states programme working papers. Series 1 54

Published: 2004 [London school of economics and political science] (LSE). Development studies institute (DESTIN). Crisis states research centre (CSRC), London (English

ISBN/ISSN: /1740-5815

Link: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/28206/1/wp54.pdf

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