There is growing recognition of the need for development agency staff engaged in sectoral decentralization to comprehend better how the political-economy context can impact their efforts to improve ...

this emphasis upon political and economic decentralization was to be interpreted in terms of social psychology rather than social theory. To them it was a romantic escape into an idealized past, ...

The anxiety of opponents of the state police as to its likely abuse, including mobilization against political opponents, is not unfounded. Nor will anyone who has listened to a former state ...

Decentralization can foster political stability and economic development—if transfers of resources and responsibilities are carefully coordinated and intergovernmental relationships are clearly ...

The “decentralization” currently achieved ... response have grown out of collaborations between government, socio-political activism, and support from the private sector.

Whereas decentralization has traditionally been pursued in countries as a governance reform to increase political competition and to bring the public sector closer to the people, multilevel governance ...

Syria's Islamist leaders opposed Kurdish calls for decentralization ... adopt a decentralized system of government in a post-Assad political order posed a threat to national unity.

A shift from a symmetric to asymmetric model of decentralization is needed to improve regional outcomes and impacts across ...

Is the nascent consensus on state police in Nigeria a political ruse or a giant step ... debate over genuine federalism and political decentralization in Nigeria. Although it is not the first ...