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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20240815163432.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780691140988 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
0 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
320.8 GRI |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Edition number |
0 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Grindle, Merilee |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Going local : |
| Remainder of title |
decentralization and the promise of good governance |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Merilee Grindle (Author) |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Princeton, N.J. |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Princeton University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2009 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvii, 278 pages) : |
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illustrations |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Going local : governance on the line<br/>Decentralizing Mexico : a cautious journey<br/>Competitive elections and good governance<br/>At work in town hall : leadership and performance<br/>Modernizing town hall<br/>Civil society : extracting benefits and demanding accountability<br/>What's new : patterns of municipal innovation<br/>The promise of good governance |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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<br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Decentralization in government |
| Geographic subdivision |
Mexico |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
POLITICAL SCIENCE Government Local |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE World General local government |
| 887 ## - NON-MARC INFORMATION FIELD |
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| Source of data |
CamTech Library |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
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No |
