TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grindle, Merilee 
TI  - Going local : : decentralization and the promise of good governance
SN  - 9780691140988
U1  - 320.8 GRI  
PY  - 2009///
CY  -  Princeton, N.J. 
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Decentralization in government
KW  - Mexico
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE Government Local
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE World General local government
N1  - Going local : governance on the line
Decentralizing Mexico : a cautious journey
Competitive elections and good governance
At work in town hall : leadership and performance
Modernizing town hall
Civil society : extracting benefits and demanding accountability
What's new : patterns of municipal innovation
The promise of good governance
N2  - Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have introduced decentralization to increase democracy and improve services, especially in small communities far from capital cities. In Going Local, an unprecedented study of the effects of decentralization on thirty Mexican municipalities, Merilee Grindle describes how local governments respond when they are assigned new responsibilities and resources under decentralization policies. She explains why decentralization leads to better local governments in some c

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