How-to Note : A Framework for the Assessment of Political Decentralization

• Tác giả: Asli Gurkan
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 306.2 Political institutions
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 327186
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM; 2. CANDIDATES; 3. COMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; 4. CONFIDENCE; 5. CONSTITUENCY

Tóm tắt

 Political decentralization is the primary mechanism through which citizen preferences are represented in the decision making, and is therefore essential to an effective system of decentralization. The purpose of this note is to elucidate components of a well-designed political decentralization system and is aimed to assist task teams and stakeholders to evaluate political decentralization effort in any given country. There are two main components of political decentralization system: a) discretion allowed to the local government to perform fundamental functions that allow them to represent the preferences of the citizens in decision making process
  and b) mechanisms that hold the local government accountable for appropriate use of this discretion.