New Structures of Local Governance

Traditional Structures in Local Governance for Local Development

Social Inclusion Learning Program (CESI). Karen Sirker and Alex Widmer from the CESI staff provided many of the documents and contributed substantially to the final editing of the paper. We would like to thank the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for the generous financial contribution to this Desk Study as part of the WBI-SDC Learning Partnership and Robert Ebel (WBI) for lau...

Do Governance Structures Matter?

Much of the research on governance focuses on two apparent needs that are often assumed to be conflicting: the need to preserve faculty authority and influence, and the need for decision-making systems that respond efficiently to change. Implicit in both of these needs is a presumption that governance has a significant impact on decisions. Despite an extended body of policy analysis and recomme...

The New Vision of Local Governance and the Evolving Roles of Local Governments

a n wa r s h a h w i t h s a n a s h a h 1 We will strive increasingly to quicken the public sense of public duty; that thus. .. we will transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better, and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us. —Oath of office required of council members in the ancient city of Athens

Decentralisation and Local Governance

The Sustainability of Global Chain Governance: Network Structures and Local Supplier Upgrading in Thailand

Although it has been widely accepted that insertion into global production networks may play a critical role in fostering local supplier upgrading, scholars have yet to fully incorporate heterogeneous configurations of buyer-supplier relationships within networks into empirical testing. Using a representative sample of manufacturing firms in Thailand, we propose a more nuanced empirical framewo...