Policy Decentralization and the Endogenous Effects of State Traditions: Devolution of Water Management in Ghana and Senegal
Policy Decentralization and the Endogenous Effects of State Traditions: Devolution of Water Management in Ghana and Senegal
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政策分权和国家传统的内生效应：加纳和塞内加尔的水管理权力下放
DOI：
10.1080/13597566.2015.1114922
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
G. Krol
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作者：
G. Krol
人们普遍认为，公共服务权力下放将减轻负债累累国家的财政负担，这导致许多发展中国家在整个1980年代和1990年代开始进行权力下放和公共部门改革。通常已移交的责任包括提供和支持饮用水设施。然而，在公共服务权力下放的执行记录方面，各国之间存在很大的差异。本文认为，国家建设遗产塑造了地方政府的能力和地方政府与土著社区合作的机会结构，解释了这种差异。这一论点是在加纳和塞内加尔下放供水的背景下进行分析的。分析表明，通过将历史上强大的传统当局纳入地方治理结构，地方政府的能力薄弱在加纳得到了补偿，但在塞内加尔却没有得到补偿。
Abstract The widely held belief that decentralization of public services would reduce the fiscal burden of deeply indebted states led a large number of developing countries throughout the 1980s and 1990s to embark on devolution and public sector reform. Among the responsibilities that have generally been devolved are the provision and support of drinking water facilities. There is, however, a substantial cross-national difference in implementation records of public service devolution. This paper argues that state-building legacies, which shaped the capacity of local governments and the opportunity structure of local governments to cooperate with indigenous communities, explain this variation. This argument is analyzed in the context of devolution of water supply in Ghana and Senegal. The analysis shows that the weak capacity of local governments is compensated in Ghana, but not in Senegal, through co-optation of historically strong traditional authorities into local governance structures.