Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

The specter of leviathan in the central-local relations : a comparative historical analysis of the decentralization reform in Thailand and the Philippines

Sudhipongpracha, Tatchalerm | 2013]
  • Author(s): Sudhipongpracha, Tatchalerm
  • Publisher: Khon Kaen university. International association of local government scholars
  • Pages: 15--31
  • Keywords: political power, bureaucracy, decentralization in government, social history, local government, public administration, thailand, philippines
This essay offers a comparative analysis of the decentralization reforms in Thailand and the Philippines. It is shown that the outcome of decentralization depends largely on the power configuration of the national bureaucracy at the time of modern state founding.

Decentralization and ignored local dynamics : a case study on CBFM in the Philippines

Sugimoto, A. | ca. 2008]
  • Author(s): Sugimoto, A.
  • Publisher: Indiana university. Digital library of the commons (DLC)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, natural resources, community participation, forest management, water management, philippines
An empirical study of community-based forest management (CBFM) in the Philippines was conducted to shed new light on how decentralized natural resource governance affects both user and non-user groups of a common resource.

Evaluating agricultural policies of local governments in Indonesia after the implementation of regional autonomy by principal component analysis : full length research paper

Sugino, Tomohide | 2010
  • Author(s): Sugino, Tomohide
  • Publisher: Academic journals
  • Pages: 359--367
  • Keywords: decentralization in government, agricultural development, development policy, local government, finance, indonesia
The quality of agricultural policies in the local governments in Indonesia after the establishment of regional autonomy in 2001 is evaluated, using a list of 31 standard intervention options. A considerable funding disparity between Java and less developed regions was observed.

Decentralisation and central-local relations : a Solomon islands case study on the negotiations of relations between national and provincial governments

Suluia, Gloria Tapakea | 2012
  • Author(s): Suluia, Gloria Tapakea
  • Publisher: Massey university]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: political power, institution building, governance, decentralization in government, solomon islands
The decentralization policies introduced since the 1980s in the Solomon Islands have had minimal impact, because institutions to renegotiate relations between the national and provincial governments were ignored by national officials.

From exclusion to ownership? : challenges and opportunities in advancing forest tenure reform

Sunderlin, William D. and Hatcher, Jeffrey and Liddle, Megan | 2008
  • Author(s): Sunderlin, William D. and Hatcher, Jeffrey and Liddle, Megan
  • Publisher: Rights and resources initiative
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: land tenure, forest resources, governance, indigenous populations, land rights, popular participation
Recommendations on how the forest tenure reform process can be carried forward in order to achieve forest land access and ownership of local people are provided.
 

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