Nearly all countries worldwide are now experimenting with decentralization. Their motivation are diverse. Many countries are decentralizing because they believe

This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. T

Why Democracy Deepens explains how socio-economic changes in India are shaping its politics to promote grassroots democracy.

This book argues that fiscal federalism will consistently deliver on its governance promises only when democratic decentralization is combined with the integrat

Faguet identifies the factors that determine the outcomes of national decentralization on the local level