Governance gone local : does decentralization improve accountability?

Abstract: This chapter discusses five key governance risks that could mitigate the posited advantages of decentralization: capture, clientelism, capacity constraints, competition over the balance of power between levels of government, and weaknesses in effective interregional competition.

Author(s): Campos, Jose Edgardo; Hellman, Joel S.

Source(s): East Asia decentralizes : making local government work, p. 237-252, ill., graphs, tabs

Published: 2005 World Bank, Washington, DC (English

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Link: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEAPDECEN/Resources/Chapter-11.pdf

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