How Citizens Participate in Macroeconomic Policy: International Experience and Implications for Poverty Reduction

Brinkerhoff, Derick W.; Goldsmith, Arthur A.

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(03)00005-6

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“…First, several scholars have found a direct link between the transparency in public administration decisionmaking-regardless of level of governance-and the performance of public services (Paul 1998;Brinkerhoff and Goldsmith 2003;Joshi 2006). Public administrations, which have developed formal and informal institutions for decision making processes that include explicit mechanisms for the public to scrutinize both the process, participants, and the information involved in public policy decisions, are more liable to be efficient custodians of public funds.…”

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Making Decentralization Work: A Cross-national Examination of Local Governments and Natural Resource Governance in Latin America

Kauneckis

Andersson

2008

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There has been increased emphasis in the last three decades on the decentralization of natural resource governance decisions to local government in developing countries as a means of improving environmental quality, public service delivery, and the accountability of local officials. We examine the performance of decentralization of natural resource management services in a large sample of municipal governments in four Latin American countries. Our analysis includes a variety of factors discussed in the literature as important in influencing the responsiveness of government officials to local needs. We provide a nested institutional model in which local officials respond to incentives created by the structure of formal political institutions at both the local and national level. The results provide support for the importance of considering local and national institutional arrangements as these co-determine the political incentives within decentralized systems.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Making Decentralization Work: A Cross-national Examination of Local Governments and Natural Resource Governance in Latin America

Kauneckis

Andersson

2008

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“…No contradiction is recognized in calling for participation and PRSP ownership, on the one hand, and the initial prescription of 'Factors Governments May Wish to Consider in Drawing Up their Participatory Process', on the other (IDA/ IMF, 1999: 12). This in turn has developed into hundreds of pages of analysis and recommendations on the conduct of PRSP participation, which can be downloaded from the World Bank PRSP website, including a 69-page report by Brinkerhoff and Goldsmith (2001) entitled Macroeconomic Policy, PRSPs and Participation.…”

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The Managing of the (Third) World

2004

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“…Such an approach would be more sensitive to the gender dimensions of planning policies, but the intractability of departments will prove a major barrier to holistic policy making (Davoudi, 2001, p. 280;cf. Innes & Booher, 1999), and to community involvement (Brinkerhoff & Goldsmith, 2003). However, if effective gender mainstreaming were facilitated, it would result in the exposure of the gendered assumptions underpinning planning practice and a re-appraisal of the spatial policy requirements of men and women, and thus better planning for everyone.…”

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Institutional and Conceptual Barriers to the Adoption of Gender Mainstreaming Within Spatial Planning Departments in England

Greed

2006

Planning Theory & Practice

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Local authority planning departments within the United Kingdom are required to undertake gender mainstreaming as a result of European Union and domestic government requirements. However, research undertaken for the Royal Town Planning Institute demonstrates that few local authorities are doing so. A mêlée of competing equality and diversity considerations at local government level limits the attention given to gender considerations. A review of national policy guidance and planning law indicates that central government is taking an equivocal stance towards gender. It is concluded that before effective gender mainstreaming can take place institutional difficulties and underlying conceptual ambiguities need to be resolved.

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How Citizens Participate in Macroeconomic Policy: International Experience and Implications for Poverty Reduction

Cited by 27 publications

References 16 publications

Making Decentralization Work: A Cross-national Examination of Local Governments and Natural Resource Governance in Latin America

Making Decentralization Work: A Cross-national Examination of Local Governments and Natural Resource Governance in Latin America

The Managing of the (Third) World

Institutional and Conceptual Barriers to the Adoption of Gender Mainstreaming Within Spatial Planning Departments in England

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