Improving Local Government
Subtitle: Outcomes of Comparative Public Administration Research (Governance and Public Management)
Contributors: Michiel S. De Vries (Editor); P. S. Reddy (Editor); M. Shamsul Haque (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 24, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780230517523
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Government - Local; Political Science / Government / Local
Description: Local governments in the developing world are currently facing serious and urgent problems. Poverty, failings of infrastructure, and the lack of human and financial resources have impacted negatively on€local governments' capacity to perform their mandated functions. This volume€draws attention to the€prescriptions of public administration theory, and their differential impact on different contexts, in different parts of the world.€It challenges existing perspectives on local governance, that either overemphasize the€universality of solutions to local government problems, or segregate solutions, isolating them as relative or transitional -€often reaching no solution at all. The authors gathered here€argue that, whilst there is no one-size-fits-all solution, solutions for specific problems in local governance can undoubtedly be found.