Introduction - Localising Governance: An Outlook on Research and Policy
Introduction - Localising Governance: An Outlook on Research and Policy
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DOI：
10.1111/1759-5436.12099
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发表时间：
2014-09-01
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0.7
通讯作者：
Schultze-Kraft, Markus
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作者：
Joshi, Anuradha;Schultze-Kraft, Markus
在过去的二十年里，学术界和政策界对国家以下各级和地方一级的治理的关注和参与大大增加。然而，我们对使地方政府能够向公民提供服务、减少贫困、具有包容性和响应性、弥合分裂的冲突后社会的分歧或向更高级别的当局代表公民利益的条件的了解仍然有限。从不同的角度出发，本公报中的文章重新审视了地方治理是如何真正运作的，以及它如何能够变得更负责任、更有效和更合法，以支持有利于穷人和被边缘化人群的发展。两位作者扩展了关于方法和概念问题、公民社会、政治和权力关系以及(冲突后)环境中权力下放的挑战的普遍辩论的界限，展望了推进治理本地化的工作并设计有助于提高其绩效的政策。
The past two decades have seen an enormous increase in academic and policy attention to, and engagement with, governance at the sub-national and local levels. Yet, our understanding of the conditions that enable local governments to deliver services to citizens, reduce poverty, be inclusive and responsive, bridge cleavages in divided post-conflict societies or represent citizen interests to higher levels of authority remains limited. Drawing on different perspectives, the articles contained in this IDS Bulletin take a fresh look at how local governance really' works and how it could become more accountable, effective and legitimate to support development that favours poor and marginalised people. Extending the boundaries of prevailing debates on methodological and conceptual issues, civil society, political and power relationships, and the challenges of decentralisation in (post)-conflict settings, the authors offer an outlook on taking forward the work on localising governance and designing policies that help improve its performance.