Decentralization and Recentralization in the Developing World: Comparative Studies from Africa and Latin America

by J. Tyler Dickovick

In the 1980s and 1990s, much of the developing world experienced transitions to democracy accompanied by economic liberalization and decentralization of power to subnational governmental bodies. The process of decentralization has been studied intensively, but little attention has been paid so far to the recentralization that has occurred in some countries in the past decade. In this book, J. Tyler Dickovick seeks to illuminate how the processes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271037911
• ISBN13: 9780271037912
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"