The Local in Governance: Politics, Decentralization, and Environment

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Satyajit Singh (Professor, Professor, Department of Political Science in University of Delhi, India.)

The Local in Governance

Politics, Decentralization, and Environment

Satyajit Singh (Professor, Professor, Department of Political Science in University of Delhi, India.)

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English

OUP India
30 November 2016

Regional government policies; Political economy; Applied ecology

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.

By: Satyajit Singh (Professor Professor Department of Political Science in University of Delhi India.)
Imprint: OUP India
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9780199468966
ISBN 10: 0199468966
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 30 November 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Maps, Tables, and Box, Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1: The Local in Governance: Politics and Institutions for Sustainable Development 2: Conflict Resolution, Decentralization, and Recentralization: Village Forest Councils in Uttarakhand 3: Collective Dilemmas and Collective Pursuits: Community Management of the Van Panchayats 4: Diverse Property Rights and Forest Management: Institutions and Politics in Uttarakhand 5: Joint Forest Management: Decentralization, Recentralization, and Devolutionary Intent 6: 'Public' in Rural Water Supply: Decentralization as Reforms 7: Decentralizing Rural Drinking Water: Political Economy of Institutional Reforms Conclusion: Political Power-Inclusive Democracy and Capacity Development Bibliography Index About the Author

Satyajit Singh is Professor at the Department of Political Science in University of Delhi, India.