Democracy, Competition and Choice: Emerging Local Self-Government in Nepal - Hardcover

Martinussen, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803992246 ISBN 13: 9780803992245

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

In 1992 Nepal created democratically elected bodies at district and village levels. The objective was to make local government more attentive to people′s needs and more capable of planning and implementing development activities. John Martinussen reviews the new policies on decentralization in Nepal and investigates how and to what extent they have so far been implemented. This is the first analysis of the new democratic set-up in Nepal as seen from the perspective of both local authorities and the people themselves.

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Review

`The product of five year's labour, this short volume, written by a Danish field-worker who has considerable knowledge in development economies, contains a wealth of fascinating material charting the manifold ways in which the government and educated elite of Nepal have understood the origins, growth and development as well as recent remodelling of local governments at the district and village levels. In eleven thematically defined and logically connected chapters, the book reviews the historical origins of local authority and then assesses the present status of regional authorities within the Himalayan kingdom's unitary system.... This book is a significant addition to the very lively topic of the decentralisation process, and authors as well as fieldworkers will certainly derive immense benefit from it.' - Asian Affairs

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803992246
• ISBN 13: 9780803992245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224