James Manor
No AccessDirections in Development - General1 Feb 2013The Political Economy of Democratic DecentralizationAuthors/Editors: James ManorJames Manorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4470-6SectionsAboutPDF (0.4 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstrac...
Richard Crook, James Manor
This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability betwee...
Richard Crook, James Manor
This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability betwee...
Adrian Leftwich
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Atul Kohli, ‘State, society and development’, in: Ira Katnelson & Helen V. Milner (eds), Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002), p. 117. 2. Dani Rodrik, ‘Growth strategies’, in: Philippe Aghion & Ste...
Katharine Adeney, Marie Lall
Abstract Katharine Adeney is Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield.Marie Lall is a principal researcher at the Institute of Education and a visiting lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Marie Lall is a Lecturer in E...
Abdulla Al Asif, Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, Hadi Hamli, Mohd Hanafi Idris et al.
P. K. Saru, Annie Cariapa, Sailaja Manacha, Rosemary Napper
AbstractThis article describes the authors' experiences as transactional analysis trainers and learners in the unique context created by India's social, cultural, religious, linguistic, and ethnic diversity and how this context impacts the multiple roles of trainers and learners. Additional informat...
Arthur G. Rubinoff
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes (t) = tied with school listed above it. Thus, in the US News rankings, Chicago and Iowa are tied with Stony Brook. I am grateful to Dinshaw Mistry and Kailan Rubunoff for their comments on earlier drafts of their paper. 1. Harold R. Isaa...
Vinay Lal
The city has had a long history in India, from the urban civilization of the Indus Valley in 2500 BCE to the megalopolis found in contemporary India. This is the first anthology of the city in India since around 1800, with an accent on the twentieth century. Drawing on fiction, poetry, essays, trave...
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Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation by John Wiseman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.viii + 202, £40 hb, £14.95 pb). Collaborative Federalism: Economic Reform in Australia in the 1990s by Martin Painter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.ix + 207,...
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People, Law and Justice: Casebook on Public Interest Litigation (2 Vols). Sangeeta Ahuja, London: Sangam, 1997, ISBN: 0–86311–684–1 Kashmir Dispute: An International Law Perspective. Ijaz Hussain, Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies, 1998, ISBN: 969–8329–03‐X Women, Democracy and the M...
Richard Crook, James Manor
In each of the four countries both a mass and an elite survey were undertaken using, as far as possible, a common questionnaire. In all, 2,030 respondents were interviewed. In Bangladesh a written Bangla (Bengali) translation of the questionnaire was used, and in India a written Kannada version. Bot...
Richard Crook, James Manor
The Bangladeshi experiment in democratic decentralisation was the creation of H. M. Ershad who had seized power in a military coup in 1982. His government created new elected councils at the sub-district (upazila or thana) level (with an average population of 245,000), and linked them to long-standi...
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, G. K. Chadha, Keith Watson, Nigel Crook et al.
States or Markets? Neo‐liberalism and the Development Policy Debate. Edited by Christopher Colclough and James Manor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. x + 359. £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 19 828376 8. The Rural Non‐farm Economy: Processes and Policies. By Ashwani Saith. Geneva: ILO, 1992. Pp.ix + 1...