Title: Decentralisation and engendering democracy : lessons from local government reform in South Africa

Authors: Beall, Jo

Place: London

Publisher: [London school of economics and political science] (LSE). Development studies institute (DESTIN). Crisis states research centre (CSRC)

Year: 2004

Journal: Crisis states programme working papers. Series 1

Volume: 54

PAGE: --

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: decentralization in government, women in politics, empowerment, gender, local government, south africa

Abstract: The paper shows how competing interests remain clustered around local government in ways that tend to exclude women. It also suggests that South African women do not have as secure a footing in local government structures as in other tiers of government.

URL: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/28206/1/wp54.pdf

Document type: Other