Governance and basic social services: ensuring accountability in service delivery through deep democratic decentralization

Santosh Mehrotra
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Santosh Mehrotra: The Asia Bureau, UNDP, Postal: The Asia Bureau, UNDP

Journal of International Development, 2006, vol. 18, issue 2, 263-283

Abstract: Ensuring accountability of local functionaries for effective delivery of basic social services has been a perennial problem of development. Since the poor have limited prospects of 'exit', 'voice' alone works to ensure effectiveness of service delivery. Accountability of lower-level functionaries to superiors in a vertical line ministry is rarely effective. The paper spells out a model of deep democratic decentralization that has been demonstrated to work in a number of countries. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1002/jid.1219

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