附註:Includes bibliographical references.
pt. 1. Background and scope. 1. Introduction and preview / Tim Campbell and Harald Fuhr -- 2. Context of change : decentralization and state reform / Tim Campbell and Harald Fuhr -- 3. Research questions : inventing decentralized government / Tim Campbell and Harald Fuhr -- 4. Selections of cases and methods / Tim Campbell and Harald Fuhr -- pt. 2. Cases. 5. Fiscal management and local resource mobilzation. 5-1. The politics of participation in Tijuana, Mexico : inventing a new style of governance / Tim Campbell and Travis Katz -- 5-2. Tax management in the municipalites of Valledupar and Manizales, Colombia / Alberto Maldonado.
6. Administrative performance and management. 6-1. Modernizing a provincial public sector : an experiment in Mendoza, Argentina / Harald Fuhr -- 6-2. Changing the managerial mindset : the FONDEVE in Conchalí, Chile / Florence Eid -- 7. Participation in local and regional decisionmaking. 7-1. Participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Zander Navarro -- 7-2. Improving basic intrastructure in Mendoza, Argentina : MENPROSIF / Tim Campbell -- 8. Public service provision. 8-1. Innovative urban transport in Curitiba, Brazil / Roberto Santoro and Josef Leitmann -- 8-2. Partnering for services in Santa Cruz, Bolivia / Fernando Rojas.
9. Public-private collaboration. 9-1. Partnering in Cali, Colombia, for planning and management / Fernando Rojas -- 9-2. Privatizing ports and mines in Venezuelan states / Rafael de la Cruz and Arianna Legovini -- 9-3. Municipalities, banks, and the poor in shelter and infrastructure of Nicaraguan cities / Alfredo Stein -- pt. 3. Lessons for donors and policymakers. 10. Challenge for donors--sustaining the engine of reform -- 10-1. Promoting democracy through decentralization and strengthening local governance : USAID's approach and experience / Mark L. Schneider -- 10-2. Policy choices and institutional dynamics of decentralization : operational implications for technical cooperation / Albrecht Stockmayer -- 11. Conclusions and policy lessons / Tim Campbell and Harald Fuhr.
摘要:This book is about inventing successes and good practices of governments that are "closer to the people." Numerous examples throughout Latin America indicate-often despite macroeconomic instability, high inflation, and strong top-down regulation-that subnational actors have repeatedly achieved what their central counterparts preached: sound policymaking, better administration, better services, more participation, and sustained economic development. But what makes some governments change course and move toward innovation? What triggers experimentation and, eventually, turns ordinary practice into good practice? The book answers some of these questions. It goes beyond a mere documentation of good and best practice, which is increasingly provided through international networks and Internet sites. Instead, it seeks a better understanding of the origins and fates of such successes at the micro level. The case studies and analytical chapters seek to explain: How good practice is born at the local level; Where innovative ideas come from; How such ideas are introduced in a new context, successfully implemented, and propagated locally and beyond; What donors can do to effectively assist processes of self-induced and bottom-up change.
