Unity in diversity? The creation of new local governments in a decentralising Indonesia

By Fitria Fitrani, Bert Hofman, Kai Kaiser *. 2005

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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics (2012, unknown): “As analyzed in detail in Fitrani, Hofman, and Kaiser (2005), the splitting of districts was driven by three principal factors: geographic area, ethnic clustering, and the size of the government sector.11 Because all analysis in this article is identified from the timing of the splits, not whether…”
Administrative Unit Proliferation (2014, background): “(Fitrani, Hofman, and Kaiser 2005).6 Such arguments echo optimistic expectations about decentralization reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, which held that such reforms would bring about a host of benefits, particularly in promoting good governance and improving the delivery of services.”
Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College (unknown): “However, the evidence from Akra suggests that large, possibly urban, entities with local economies and extensive trade and exchange networks were already in existence in this region from ca.”