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Extractive Industries, Revenue Allocation and Local Politics
(UNRISD, 2014-03-03)The success of a developmental strategy based on the extraction of non-renewable resources is largely dependent on the share of revenues captured by the state from the extractive sector and the modalities that governments ... -
Innovative Thinking and Practice in Local Governance
(IDS, 2013-05-31)The outline of research papers contained in this overview identifies knowledge gaps, proposes practical approaches, and scans new horizons that enhance development thinking and practice. The goal of these research summaries ... -
Decentralisation and Accountability in War-to-Peace Transitions: The Case of Kosovo
(2014-09-15)In spite of the scant evidence of a positive correlation between decentralisation and strengthened local development and governance, decentralisation has been promoted as a tool to consolidate peace and rebuild states in ... -
Connecting Citizens to the State: Informal Local Governance Institutions in the Western Balkans
(2014-09-15)There is a growing scholarly and policy awareness of the fact that informal institutions that lie wholly or partly outside formal state structures and that take on various governance-related functions have tremendous ... -
Devolving the Power to Divide: Sectarian Relations in Egypt (2011–12)
(2014-09-09)This paper is about decentralisation and social cohesion in religiously heterogeneous communities in times of political transition. Post-Mubarak Egypt is taken as a case study involving the informal devolution of power in ... -
Power Above and Below the Waterline: Bridging Political Economy and Power Analysis
(2014-09-08)The power relations that underlie poverty and exclusion can make or break development programmes, if not understood and addressed at all stages of design and implementation. Political economy and power analysis represent ... -
Distributing the Wealth from the Earth
(2014-09-08)This article explains different criteria and mechanisms for distributing Extractive Industries (EI) revenues between central and local governments across countries and territories. It reveals that institutional or systemic ... -
Preface to IDS Bulletin 'Localising Governance'
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Power, Violence, Citizenship and Agency
(2014-09-08)Peace-building, state-building and democratisation efforts often focus strongly on the state, and follow the Weberian logic of states holding the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence. In doing so, they may be neglecting ... -
Reading the Local Context: A Causal Chain Approach to Social Accountability
(2014-09-08)There is a general consensus that ‘context’ matters for development outcomes, yet we have little understanding of how exactly ‘context’ affects outcomes. This paper focuses on the question of ‘context’ in social accountability ... -
Beyond Ballotocracy: Citizens' Voices and the Many Faces of Unruly Politics
(2014-09-05)Pre-submitted version of article for IDS Bulletin 45.5. This paper is an empirical account of how modes of capturing citizen voices from above (via elections) diverged with expressions of citizen dissidence from below ... -
Using Local IT Solutions to Improve Local Government Tax Reform
(2014-03-25)Appropriate information technology systems are critical to realising the local government tax reforms that are the focus of growing international attention. The two systems frequently favoured by donors and governments ...