Boosting Competitiveness Through Decentralization
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Hegemony Crisis
High Quality Crude Oil
IMF Reform
interest representation theory
Latin American governance
Liberal Individualist Approach
local
Local Development
Local Development Patterns
local government reform
Local Regime
Maquiladora Industry
Miguel De La Madrid
neoliberal policy impact
Pan Government
participatory governance models
policies
political economy analysis
PRI Elite
Program Nacional De Solidaridad
Public Private Partnership
Social Reproduction
Socio-economic Development
Socioeconomic Development
Subnational Comparison
Tourism Industrialists
Traditional PRI
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- ISBN 9781409425724
- Weight: 444g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Decentralization is accepted as one of the defining features of the third wave of democratic transitions in Latin America and commonly understood as an index and an agent of democratization. This rather optimistic perspective is inherent in the literature which is dominated by two theories. The liberal-individualist approach, especially as advocated by the World Bank, promotes decentralization policies on the premise of their efficiency, equity, and responsiveness to local demands. Similarly, the statist approach claims that decentralization can be the route to greater accountability, transparency and participation in governance; they add that this path should be guided by political elites and institutions. These dominant views nevertheless understate the extent to which certain decentralization policies have been implemented in lockstep with neoliberalization. This book examines the relationship between global economic processes and decentralization. It argues that through decentralization policies, the imperatives of neoliberal rules of competitiveness have been diffused into local governments and economies, generating different local development models. Whether decentralization produces democratic opening at the local level is contingent on how the local economy is integrated into global economic processes, and which social and economic groups are empowered, and disempowered, in that transition.
Professor Aylin Topal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
