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How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made to counterbalance the new emphasis on world interests? Comprehensive and timely, The New Localism answers these and other vital questions by exploring local political restructuring in the face of massive global economic change. Prominent urban scholars cover the privatization of local politics, the emergence of local economic and social activism, and increased competition–on both local and national levels. This important volume examines various levels of development in such diverse political settings as the United States, the United Kingdom, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. The New Localism is a must read for students and scholars of urban studies, comparative politics, political science, third world development, planning, public administration, and sociology. “Goetz and Clarke's book brings a useful perspective to this literature, not so much because of its theoretical originality, but for its didactic value. It is a straightforward presentation of cases of urban restructuring, well integrated within a common conceptual framework labelled “new localism” –Canadian Journal of Urban Research
Local Institutions and Development: The Nigerian Experience
Local Institutions and Development: The Nigerian Experience
The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in the possible contributions that ordinary people and their locally based institutions can make to national economic and social development. Before this time, the debate seemed to have been settled in favor of the central state. For new nations that had just emerged from colonial rule, the case for centralization was strong. First, the powers of the central state and its key organs, the bureaucracy and the single party, were regarded as important for helping to integrate extant ethnic groups who had been brought together by the accident of colonial conquest. Decentralization, it was argued, can make sense only where there have been ...
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