• ISBN13: 9780199468966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: May 12, 2016
• Pages: 280
• Original Price: INR 895.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 430 grams

About the Book This study examines the political economy of how institutional designs for governance are created and the role of local politics in shaping institutions. While some recent approaches to governance and decentralization are normative, economistic and technocratic, The Local in Governance underlines the importance of the political. It studies the different architectures of decentralization, based on multiple ideas and values on the ground. The idea of the political in decentralization establishes that unlike uniform normative outcomes, diverse local institutions lead to different outcomes as they interface with micro politics of various hues. Drawing empirical evidence from the forestry and water sectors in India, the author concludes that it is in the creation of decentralized institutions and in the political economy of their functioning, that outcome paths of decentralization—democratic, devolutionary and accountable (the good)—or the new forms of recentralization and deconcentration (the not so good), are determined. About the Author <br> Satyajit Singh</b> is Professor at the Department of Political Science in University of Delhi, India.