Multi-level Governance and Local Government Reform in Pakistan

Aamer Taj and Keith Baker
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Aamer Taj: Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawsar, Pakistan.
Keith Baker: Department of Public Administration, College at Brockport, Brockport, NY, USA.

Progress in Development Studies, 2018, vol. 18, issue 4, 267-281

Abstract: Local government reform in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province between 2001 and 2009 is examined through the lens of multi-level governance. The reforms were initiated by the military-led government of Pervez Musharraf and entrenched the power of the federal government. The reforms of 2001–09 were similar to the reforms implemented by the governments of Ayub Khan in the 1960s and Zia-ul-Haque in 1979. The article argues that three different military governments pursued similar programmes of constitutional reform to secure themselves in power. We conclude that devolution may not always enhance democracy.

Keywords: Governance; reform; Pakistan; hybrid states; local government; devolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/1464993418786796

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