Building local democracy: Evaluating the impact of decentralization in Kerala, India
Building local democracy: Evaluating the impact of decentralization in Kerala, India
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DOI：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.07.001
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发表时间：
2007-04-01
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Chaudhuri, Shubham
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作者：
Heller, Patrick;Harilal, K. N.;Chaudhuri, Shubham
从历史上看，印度地方农村政府的权力非常有限，公民很少有机会影响地方发展。1996年，喀拉拉邦政府发起了“人民权力下放规划运动”，将新的权力和资源下放到行政委员会，并规定了旨在使公民最大限度地直接参与规划和预算编制的结构和程序。从范围和设计来看，这些改革是次大陆为建立参与性民主治理的地方机构所作的最雄心勃勃的努力。本文提供了一个详细的评估和分析的基础上，在2002年收集的广泛的调查数据，从随机选择的72个评议会的形成期的改革。(c)2007爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
Historically, local rural governments in India have enjoyed very limited powers and citizens have been afforded very few opportunities to shape local development. In 1996, the state government of Kerala initiated the "People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning" devolving new authority and resources to panchayats and mandating structures and processes designed to maximize the direct involvement of citizens in planning and budgeting. In both its scope and design, these reforms represent the most ambitious effort to build local institutions of participatory democratic governance ever undertaken in the subcontinent. This paper provides a detailed evaluation and analysis of the formative period of the reforms based on extensive survey data collected in 2002 from a sample of 72 randomly selected panchayats. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.