Title: On the merits of decentralization in young democracies

Authors: Linder, Wolf

Place: Oxford

Publisher: Oxford university press

Year: [2010]

Journal: Journal of federalism

Volume: Vol. 40, No. 1

PAGE: 1--30

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: democracy, public services, fiscal policy, local government, municipal government, decentralization in government, mozambique

Abstract: Three features of decentralization proposed by institutional development theory are analysed for Mozambique’s Autarquias, politically autonomous municipalities since 1997: (1) consolidation of the fiscal state; (2) democracy; and (3) the development of service quality in the local administration.

URL: http://www.sdc-decentralization.net/resources/sharewebResource_en_4986.pdf

Document type: Portal