Decentralized Governance Accountability Academic Research Futu… 9781108497909 VG

Decentralized Governance and AccountabilityAcademic Research and the Future of Donor Programming\nAuthor(s): Jonathan A. Rodden, Erik Wibbels\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108497909, 978-1108497909\nSynopsis\nAt the end of the twentieth century, academics and policymakers welcomed a trend toward fiscal and political decentralization as part of a potential solution for slow economic growth and poor performance by insulated, unaccountable governments. For the last two decades, researchers have been trying to answer a series of vexing questions about the political economy of multi-layered governance. Much of the best recent research on decentralization has come from close collaborations between university researchers and international aid institutions. As the volume and quality of this collaborative research have increased in recent decades, the time has come to review the lessons from this lit.