Eris D. Schoburgh, John Martin, Sonia Gatchair

Developmental Local Governance

A Critical Discourse in 'Alternative Development'
Herausgegeben:Loparo, Kenneth A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The primary purpose of this edited collection is to evaluate critically the relationship between local government and national economic development. It focuses on how the relationship between local government and development is structured, and the specific institutional arrangements at national and subnational levels that might facilitate local government's assumption of the role of development agent. In light of the contradictory outcomes of development and implied experimentation with new modalities, post-development discourse provides a useful explanatory framework for the book. Schoburgh, Martin and Gatchair's central argument is that the pursuit of national developmental goals is given a sustainable foundation when development planning and strategies take into account elements that have the potential to determine the rate of social transformation. Their emphasis on localism establishes a clear link between local government and local economic development in the context of developing countries.

Produktdetails

• International Political Economy Series
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-55835-0
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781137558350
• ISBN-10: 1137558350
• Artikelnr.: 43413682

Autorenporträt

Eris D. Schoburgh, University of the West Indies, Jamaica John Martin, La Trobe University, Australia Sonia Gatchair, University of the West Indies, Jamaica Bhaskar Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India Paul Hildreth, Visiting Policy Fellow, University of Salford, UK P. S. Reddy, University Of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Muhammad Kabir ISA, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria Akeeta Ali, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Rebecca Gookool, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Roger Hosein, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Zenaida Moya, IMC Integral Management Consultancy, Belize

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Eris Schoburgh
John Martin
Sonia Gatchair 1. Post-development Theory and the Local Developmental State
Eris Schoburgh 2. Developmental Local Government: From Concept to Praxis
Eris Schoburgh
Bhaskar Chakrabarti 3. The Evolving Roles and Relationships of Government in Local Economic and Sustainable Development: the case of the UK (and particularly England)
Paul Hildreth 4. Local Government and Economic Development in the Australian Federation: Dispersed Efforts in a Complex Geography
John Martin 5. From National to Local Economic Development (LED): The South African Case
P S Reddy 6. Nigerian Local Government System and Governance: Lessons, Prospects and challenges for Post 2015 Development Goals
Muhammad Kabir ISA 7. Managing Development in Local Government: Frameworks and Strategies in Jamaica
Eris Schoburgh
Sonia Gatchair 8. The Imperative of a Local Economic Development Approach in the Context of the Dutch Disease
Roger Hosein
Rebecca Gookool
Akeeta Ali 9. The Making of Developmental Local Government in Belize
Zenaida Moya 10. Informality and Developmental Local Government: What is at stake?
Eris Schoburgh 11. From Developmental Local Government to Developmental Local Governance
Eris Schoburgh and John Martin 12. Conclusion: Towards a Model of Developmental Local Governance
Eris Schoburgh
John Martin
Sonia Gatchair

Rezensionen

"The central argument of this book is that local government and politics matter if sustainable development is going to take place. The cases and analysis support that argument. It makes an important contribution that should be widely read." - Gerry Stoker, University of Canberra, Australia, and University of Southampton, UK

"This publication on developmental local governance comes at a critical time when the international community, including the Caribbean, is about to adopt the post-2015 development agenda for 2015-30. There is a strong realisation that this new agenda has to be driven from the bottom-up, with a focus on localising the proposed sustainable development goals (SDGs). Developmental local governance, and within this local government, will have a key role in helping to set, implement and monitor development goals and targets, as was highlighted at recent high level meetings of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum. This book therefore makes a key contribution to the ongoing policy debate and will be extremely valuable to everyone, especially senior policy makers and academics, concerned with issues of global development and governance." - Carl Wright, Commonwealth Local Government Forum, UK