Administrative Decentralization: Strategies For Developing Countries; Author: Cohen, John M.; Introduction: Peterson, Stephen B.; Paperback

Author: Cohen, John M.; Introduction: Peterson, Stephen B.
Paperback
207 pages
Published: October 1999
Kumarian Press
ISBN: 1565490967

This state-of-the-art look at administrative decentralization reviews lessons from the past four decades and focuses on the issues confronting developing countries in the 1990s and beyond. The key concept is that of role and the extent to which administrative systems provide roles through either institutional monopolies or pluralism. This groundbreaking work is illustrated through case studies including Ethiopia, Kenya and Mexico.Cohen and Peterson spent years with the Harvard Institute for International Development. They review the lessons of administrative decentralization in transitional and developing countries over the past four decades, and summarize and critique the dominant analytical framework. They contend that a d