Since the 1970s, process of decentralization has spread throughout world, and today more than 95% democratic countries are decentralized. Decentralization should lead to a well-organized efficient local government. Nevertheless, empirical results rather vague. The motivation for this paper is examine impact political fiscal on quality government in seventeen Central Eastern Europe period 1998 -...

International donors, long-standing supporters of decentralization reforms in developing countries, often face the challenge of aligning program assistance to the great variety of country governance settings in which many operate. This paper presents a framework for assessing the implications of governance and institutional context for a range of programming challenges, with particular referenc...

The author’s 1998 article on decentralization focused on the element of choice as the major issue of decentralization – granting authority and responsibility for choice to administrative and elected officials at peripheral levels of organizations and governments – and introduced the concept of “decision space” to describe the range of choice allowed to local authorities for different functions ...

Since the late 1980s governments in sub-Saharan Africa have been undertaking various structural reforms, both politically and socio-economically. Uganda is no exception in a sense the country endeavors for democratization as well as for sustainable development. One of the pillars for this policy reform has been decentralization, which has been considered to be essential to create a collaborativ...

Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on the long-term viability of co-ops; on the relative produc...

Decentralization has dramatically altered governance in developing countries. However, the empirical evidence on its welfare effects has been limited and ambiguous. I argue that this ambiguity is due to a misidentification of different types of decentralization – namely administrative, political and fiscal – and their synergies. In order to test this claim, the paper employs a unique Indonesian...

introduction the review of roles and functions of local management show that rural managers have played a significant role and been responsible on the physical development of villages over the time. despite legal supports for playing a role in local management and any intervention for rural development and the physical expansion of rural settlements, such a role and its impacts on rural develop...