Title: African decentralization : local actors, powers and accountability

Authors: Ribot, Jesse Craig

Place: Geneva [etc.]

Publisher: United nations research institute for social development (UNRISD) [etc.]

Year: 2002

Journal: Democracy, governance and human rights programme paper

Volume: 8

PAGE: --

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: decentralization in government, local government, political participation, democracy, empowerment, africa

Abstract: In Africa, decentralization is not implemented in ways necessary to realize the benefits that theory predicts, because it fails to entrust downwardly accountable representative actors with significant domains of autonomous discretionary power.

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