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Developmental Local Governance

A Critical Discourse in ‘Alternative Development’

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Eris D. Schoburgh

    1. University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica

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  2. John Martin

    1. University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia

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  3. Sonia Gatchair

    1. University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Eris D. Schoburgh, John Martin, Sonia Gatchair
    Pages 1-11

  3. Post-development Theory and the Local Developmental State

    • Eris D. Schoburgh
    Pages 12-23

  4. Developmental Local Government: From Concept to Praxis

    • Eris D. Schoburgh, Bhaskar Chakrabarti
    Pages 24-50

  5. The Evolving Roles and Relationships of Governments in Local Economic and Sustainable Development: The Case of the United Kingdom (and Particularly England)

    • Paul Hildreth
    Pages 51-73

  6. Local Government and Economic Development in the Australian Federation: Dispersed Efforts in a Complex Geography

    • John Martin
    Pages 74-85

  7. From National to Local Economic Development (LED): The South African Case

    • P. S. Reddy
    Pages 86-106

  8. Nigerian Local Government System and Governance: Lessons, Prospects and Challenges for Post-2015 Development Goals

    • Muhammad Kabir Isa
    Pages 107-126

  9. Managing Development in Local Government: Frameworks and Strategies in Jamaica

    • Eris D. Schoburgh, Sonia Gatchair
    Pages 127-146

  10. The Imperative of a Local Economic Development Approach in the Context of the Dutch Disease

    • Roger Hosein, Rebecca Gookool, Akeeta Ali
    Pages 147-177

  11. The Making of Developmental Local Government in Belize

    • Zenaida Moya
    Pages 178-200

  12. Informality and Developmental Local Government: What Is at Stake?

    • Eris D. Schoburgh
    Pages 201-226

  13. From Developmental Local Government to Developmental Local Governance

    • Eris D. Schoburgh, John Martin
    Pages 227-243

  14. Conclusion: Towards a Model of Developmental Local Governance

    • Eris D. Schoburgh, Sonia Gatchair, John Martin
    Pages 244-251

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 253-260
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About this book

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.

Reviews

"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

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica

    Eris D. Schoburgh, Sonia Gatchair

  • University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia

    John Martin

About the editors

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

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