Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development: Ghana's Experiences for Policy and Practice in Developing Countries

Drawing on field—based data and experiences from the practice of democratic decentralization and local governance over the last three decades in Ghana, this book examines whether and how democratic decentralization and local governance reforms in developing countries have produced the anticipated development outcomes.

In seventeen related contributions, the authors present four relevant focal themes, including conceptual and historical trajectories of decentralization and local governance...