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  1. Precolonial legacies in postcolonial politics
    representation and redistribution in decentralized West Africa
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? This book advances a novel answer to this question by looking at variation in local government performance in decentralized West Africa: communities... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
    SW 2023/283
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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
    B 427855
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    "Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? This book advances a novel answer to this question by looking at variation in local government performance in decentralized West Africa: communities are better able to coordinate around basic service delivery when their formal jurisdictional boundaries overlap with informal social institutions, or norms of appropriate comportment in the public sphere demarcated by group boundaries. I advance a theory of institutional congruence to explain these differences, highlighting how twin mechanisms of a shared sense of social identification and dense network ties alter local elite behavior under decentralization. These attributes fall unevenly across space, however, meaning that institutional congruence only emerges in areas that were home to precolonial kingdoms where collective identities and social ties have persisted over time. I develop and test this argument through a multi-method research design to show that local politics of representation and redistribution are broader in cases of high congruence, but contentious and targeted in areas where it is low."

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108995498; 9781316518151
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    9781316518151
    Series: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    Subjects: Dezentralisierung; Kommunalverwaltung; Kolonialismus; Entwicklung; Westafrika; Senegal; Decentralization in government; Local government; Public administration; Group identity; Elite (Social sciences); Postcolonialism
    Scope: xiii, 293 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Peace-building and economic development through decentralization
    the pre-bifurcation Jammu and Kashmir experience
    Published: March 2021
    Publisher:  Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
    W 1803 (511)
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9788195122806
    Series: ISEC working paper ; 511
    Subjects: Peace-building; Economic development; Decentralization in government; Human services; Decentralization; Peace building; Conflict; Kashmir; Decentralization in government; Economic development; Human services; Peace-building
    Scope: 18 Seiten
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