Participation and Accountability at the Periphery: Democratic Local Governance in Six Countries

By H. Blair. 2000

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Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective (2008, background): “Previous research has suggested that a major constraint for effective decentralized decision making is that central governments rarely give up enough power or provide sufficient support to local authorities (Adamolekun 1991; Agrawal and Ribot 1999; Bahl 1999; Bird and Vaillancourt 1999; Blair 2000; ”
Decentralisation in Africa: a pathway out of poverty and conflict? (2008, background): “The veto-power of national elites in blocking the effective implementation of new legal rules, or in perverting them to their own advantage, is a critical constraint to any decentralisation policy (Blair, 2000).”
Community Driven Development, Collective Action and Elite Capture in Indonesia (2007, background): “1 The expanded use of community-based approaches by large-scale institutional actors has made more pressing the need to rigorously evaluate its foundational propositions and its vulnerability to elite capture (Blair, 2000; Conning and Kevane, 2002; Cooke and Kothari, 2002; Galasso and Ravallion, 200”
Local government decision‐making—citizen participation and local accountability: some evidence from Kenya and Uganda (2003, background): “As Blair notes, each of the different mechanisms of official accountability to tbe public—elections, political parties, civil society, the media, public meetings, formal grievance procedures and opinion surveys—has its own problems (Blair, 2000, p. 32).”
Decentralization's Effects on Educational Outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia (2008, positive): “Rowland (2001) and Blair (2000) find that decentralization improved the quality of democratic governance achieved in both large cities and small towns.”
Participatory Development in the Presence of Endogenous Community Imperfections (2002, methodology): “In this instance, the lack of success of NGOs in promoting community development cannot be ascribed to an absence of clear methods for empowering the beneficiaries and evaluating the performance of the participatory approach [White and Eicher, 1999].”
Who talks with whom? The role of repeated interactions in decentralized forest governance (2004, background): “…depends on the degree to which local governments involve local resource users in political decision making and are downwardly accountable to these users (e.g., Agrawal & Ostrom, 2001; Blair, 2000; Crook & Manor, 1998; de Oliveira, 2002; Larson, 2002; Pacheco, 2000; Ribot, 2002; Singleton, 1998).”
Decentralized governance and environmental change: Local institutional moderation of deforestation in Bolivia (2007, background): “Others suggest that local governments necessarily have better information about local conditions and preferences, and therefore make better decisions regarding the provision of collective goods (Blair, 2000; Hayek, 1945; Wunsch & Olowu, 1990).”
Community-based Monitoring of Natural Resource Use and Forest Quality in Montane Forests and Miombo Woodlands of Tanzania (2005, background): “Transparency and accountability are recognised as being core issues in decentralisation processes the world over (Blair 2000; Petersen and Sandhövel 2001; Ellis and Mdoe 2003).”