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- Presents case study data on the effect of legal reform on people's participation and accountability in local governments in Bangladesh
- Offers suggestions on how to better implement reform in order to grow people's participation in local government
- Examines the emergence of local grassroots politics resulting from the Local Government (Union Parishad) Act of 2009
Part of the book series: Public Administration, Governance and Globalization (PAGG, volume 8)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday
About the authors
Shuvra Chowdhury, PhD is an associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Before joining the Department of Public Administration at the University of Rajshahi, she had worked in the banking sector. Her main areas of academic interest include public sector performance, change management and gender studies. She has published extensively in noted international journals. Currently, she has been carrying out a number of research projects with the financial assistance from the University of Rajshahi and the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh. Â
Pranab Kumar Panday, PhD is a Professor at the Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA in 2012. Panday's main areas of research include public administration, public policy, public sector reforms, governance and gender studies. His major book publication includes Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh: Institutional Reforms, Actors and Outcomes (Springer, 2013), Women Empowerment in South Asia: NGO Interventions and Agency Building in Bangladesh (Routledge, 2016) and Reforming Urban Governance in Bangladesh: The City Corporation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). His academic articles have appeared in journals like Asian Survey, the International Journal of Public Administration, International Political Science Review, Development in Practice, Local Government Studies, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Public Organization Review, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, the Asian Journal of Political Science, the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal and so on. He has provided consultancy services to various international organizations, including UNDP, USAID, SDC, Oxfam-Bangladesh, World Vision, DanChurchAid and so on.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh
Book Subtitle: Reforms, Participation and Accountability
Authors: Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday
Series Title: Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73284-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73283-1Published: 06 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10348-4Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73284-8Published: 23 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2512-2347
Series E-ISSN: 2512-2363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 216
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Administration, Democracy, Asian Politics, Development Policy