Overview
- Offers a novel and holistic analysis of the topic
- Presents an extensive spatio-temporal assessment of decentralization and local governance reforms
- Discusses perspectives for other developing countries drawing from Ghana's experiences
Part of the book series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development (AAESPD)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptual and Historical Perspectives of Decentralization and Local Governance
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Institutional Choice, Representation, Poverty Reduction and Local Development
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Local Governance, Resource Capacity and Service Delivery
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Non-State Actors, Local Governance and Sustainable Development
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Keywords
- Local democracy
- Participatory development
- Devolution
- Development reforms
- Institutional choice
- Poverty reduction
- Social development
- Resource capacity
- Domestic revenue mobilization
- Elections
- Service delivery
- Health sector
- Africa
- Financial and human resource capacities
- Sub-national governance
- Non-governmental organizations
- Citizens' participation
- Local economic development
- Decentralising
- Governance
About this book
In seventeen related contributions, the authors present four relevant focal themes, including conceptual and historical trajectories of decentralization and local governance; institutional choice, democratic representation, and poverty reduction; local governance, resource capacity, and service delivery; and non-state actors, local governance and sustainable development.
The book blends perspectives of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers to provide a holistic analysis of linkages between decentralization, local governance, and sustainable development efforts, presenting a novel and useful guide for science, policy,and practice of bottom-up governance and development. It provides relevant lessons and experiences for scholars, policy-makers, and development practitioners in Africa in particular and developing countries in general.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei is a development geographer with expertise in decentralisation and local governance, poverty and livelihood studies and gender equality dynamics in Africa. He holds a PhD in Geography and Rural Development. He is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Rural Development of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana, and formerly a Senior Fellow of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana. He was the 2018 African Scholar to the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, as Senior Researcher. He serves as the coordinator for the sustainable transformation of rural Africa Programme (STRAP—Research and Policy Initiative) under the Centre for Interdisciplinary Development Research in Africa, Ghana, and associate editor of the Journal of Science and Technology (JUST).
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi is an expert in historical and political studies. He holds a PhD in History and is currently an Associate Professor and former Head of Department of History and Political Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Samuel Adu-Gyamfi is the Senior Editor for Cogent Arts and Humanities Journal with over fifty publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a fellow of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Development Research in Africa and a member of Historical Society of Ghana. His research interests and expertise include history of health policies, decentralisation, local governance and history of Ghana.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development
Book Subtitle: Ghana's Experiences for Policy and Practice in Developing Countries
Editors: Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi
Series Title: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12378-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12377-1Published: 15 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12380-1Published: 15 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12378-8Published: 14 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2198-7262
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7270
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 302
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Administration, Development Studies, Economic Growth, African Politics, Comparative Politics, Regional/Spatial Science