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• Reinventing rural development in Vietnam : discursive constructions of grassroots democracy during the renovation reform
  2011, Larsen, Rasmus Klocker Portal

  This paper examines the impacts and interpretations of the Grassroots Democracy Decree (GDD) among rural...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Remove or reform? : a case for (restructuring) chiefdom governance in post-conflict Sierra Leone
  2008, Sawyer, Edward E-article

  Fieldwork from three districts in Sierra Leone suggests that chiefdom authority continues to have considerable...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Repertoires of domination : decentralization as process in Botswana and Senegal
  2010, Poteete, Amy R. and Ribot, Jesse C. E-article

  The concept of “repertoires of domination” is used to describe the many tactics government ocials...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Repertoires of domination in decentralization : cases from Botswana and Senegal
  2009, Poteete, Amy R. and Ribot, Jesse C. Portal

  Government officials, local elites, and commercial interests in Botswana and Senegal have used their so-called...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Representation in decentralized governance and local service delivery for MDGs : regional retreat : retreat report
  2005], Portal

  In May 2005 a regional workshop was held in Hua Hin, Thailand, to discuss approaches...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Representation, citizenship and the public domain in democratic decentralization
  2007, Ribot, Jesse C. Portal

  The effects of ‘democratic’ decentralization reforms are analysed. In most developing countries, rather than empowering...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Republic of the Philippines. Department of the interior and local government (Kagawaran ng interyor at pamahalaang lokal)
  cop. 2010-, Portal

  Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) of the Philippines is concerned with local...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Researching the practical norms of real governance in Africa
  2008, Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre Portal

  What are the practical norms in play in the various forms of every-day public action...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Resettlement and gender dimensions of land rights in post-conflict northern Uganda
  2012, Adelman, Sarah Portal

  The effect of displacement and resettlement of households on gender-differentiated access to land and land...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
  

• Reshaping institutions : evidence on aid impacts using a pre-analysis plan
  2011, Casey, Katherine and Glennerster, Rachel and Miguel, Edward E-article

  Minority participation requirements were imposed in the GoBifo “community driven development” project in Sierra Leone...

  Subject :

  Rural Decentralization and Local Governance