Decentralization and Community Development

Decentralization, Democracy, and Development

The traditional view of local politics and government in the Philippines is not flattering: elected officials are personalistic faction leaders (or worse, bosses or warlords) interested in parlaying their personal wealth and power rather than promoting good governance. Thus, it could be argued that decentralization by shifting power away from a reforming center to powerful irresponsible local p...

Decentralization of Governance and Development

A ll around the world in matters of governance, decentralization is the rage. Even apart from the widely debated issues of subsidiarity and devolution in the European Union and states’ rights in the United States, decentralization has been at the center stage of policy experiments in the last two decades in a large number of developing and transition economies in Latin America, Africa and Asia....

Against the “networked Information Economy”: Rethinking Decentralization, Community, and Free Software Development

The free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) movement is often cited as an example of fundamental changes in production associated with the rise of information networks. Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams see it as an example of wikinomics, a powerful new form of economic production based on sharing and self-organization. 1 Yochai Benk-ler argues that the form of social or peer productio...

Decentralization : the Way Forward for Rural Development ? '

community-based management, improving social capital and sustainable rural development

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