The Local in Governance
Politics, Decentralization, and Environment
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9780199468966
Publication date:
22/09/2016
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278 pages
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Publication date:
22/09/2016
Hardback
278 pages
Satyajit Singh
This is a study of the different architectures of decentralization using empirical evidence from the forestry and water sector of Uttarakhand. It examines the political economy of how institutional designs for environmental governance are created and the important role of politics in shaping institutions and their outcomes.
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Satyajit Singh
Description
This study examines the political economy of how institutional designs for governance are created, and the role of local politics in shaping institutions. While some recent approaches to governance and decentralization are normative, economistic, and technocratic, The Local in Governance underlines the importance of the political. It studies the different architectures of decentralization, based on multiple ideas and values on the ground. The idea of the political in decentralization establishes that unlike uniform normative outcomes, diverse local institutions lead to different outcomes as they interface with micro politics of various hues. Drawing empirical evidence from the forestry and water sectors in India, the author concludes that it is in the creation of decentralized institutions, and in the political economy of their functioning, that outcome paths of decentralization—democratic, devolutionary, and accountable (the good)—or the new forms of recentralization and deconcentration (the not so good), are determined.
About the Author
Satyajit Singh is Professor at the Department of Political Science in University of Delhi, India.
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Satyajit Singh
Table of contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Box
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. The Local in Governance: Politics and Institutions for Sustainable Development
2. Conflict Resolution, Decentralization, and Recentralization: Village Forest Councils in Uttarakhand
3. Collective Dilemmas and Collective Pursuits: Community Management of the Van Panchayats
4. Diverse Property Rights and Forest Management: Institutions and Politics in Uttarakhand
5. Joint Forest Management: Decentralization, Recentralization, and Devolutionary Intent
6. ‘Public’ in Rural Water Supply: Decentralization as Reforms
7. Decentralizing Rural Drinking Water: Political Economy of Institutional Reforms
Conclusion: Political Power—Inclusive Democracy and Capacity Development
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Satyajit Singh
Review
‘Our ability to learn how to cooperate as free and equal human beings has a momentous bearing on the future of humanity. The institutions of local governance in various societies, including those aimed at sustainable management of forests and water, have great value in this respect. Satyajit Singh’s searching political analysis of these institutions, based on extensive fieldwork, deeply enriches our understanding of the nature of collective action and local governance.’
—Jean Dreze, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Ranchi University
Satyajit Singh
Description
This study examines the political economy of how institutional designs for governance are created, and the role of local politics in shaping institutions. While some recent approaches to governance and decentralization are normative, economistic, and technocratic, The Local in Governance underlines the importance of the political. It studies the different architectures of decentralization, based on multiple ideas and values on the ground. The idea of the political in decentralization establishes that unlike uniform normative outcomes, diverse local institutions lead to different outcomes as they interface with micro politics of various hues. Drawing empirical evidence from the forestry and water sectors in India, the author concludes that it is in the creation of decentralized institutions, and in the political economy of their functioning, that outcome paths of decentralization—democratic, devolutionary, and accountable (the good)—or the new forms of recentralization and deconcentration (the not so good), are determined.
About the Author
Satyajit Singh is Professor at the Department of Political Science in University of Delhi, India.
Kindly download the flyer for more details.
Table of contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Box
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. The Local in Governance: Politics and Institutions for Sustainable Development
2. Conflict Resolution, Decentralization, and Recentralization: Village Forest Councils in Uttarakhand
3. Collective Dilemmas and Collective Pursuits: Community Management of the Van Panchayats
4. Diverse Property Rights and Forest Management: Institutions and Politics in Uttarakhand
5. Joint Forest Management: Decentralization, Recentralization, and Devolutionary Intent
6. ‘Public’ in Rural Water Supply: Decentralization as Reforms
7. Decentralizing Rural Drinking Water: Political Economy of Institutional Reforms
Conclusion: Political Power—Inclusive Democracy and Capacity Development
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
