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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299363303321

Autore

Chowdhury Shuvra

Titolo

Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh : Reforms, Participation and Accountability  / / by Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-73284-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages)

Collana

Public Administration, Governance and Globalization, , 2512-2363 ; ; 8

Disciplina

320.95492

Soggetti

Public administration

Political science

Asia—Politics and government

Economic development

Public Administration

Political Science

Asian Politics

Development Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction --  Chapter 2: Policy Impact Study: A Conceptual Framework --  Chapter 3: Past Reforms on People's Participation and Accountability in Bangladesh --  Chapter 4:  Governance, People's Participation, Accountability and the Act of 2009 --  Chapter 5: Process of Participatory Planning and Budgeting at the Local Level --  Chapter 6:  Ensuring Social Accountability through Public Forums --  Chapter 7:  Ensuring Transparency Through Citizen Charter and Rights to Information --  Chapter 8:  Role of Administrative and Political Culture in Civic Engagement --  Chapter 9:  Challenges of Innovations in Public Management in the Third World Countries --  Chapter 10: Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people’s participation and



accountability.  Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP and its relation to social accountability, examine how much of the social participation is spontaneous and how much is politically induced, question the success of the Citizen's Charter and Right to Information acts as mechanisms for social accountability, and present suggestions to remedy some of the problems facing people's participation and accountability in the UP.  This book fills existing gaps in the discourse by adding new information to the literature on development research and legal reforms in Bangladesh, specifically in how those legal reforms have led to strengthening or weakening people's participation in local government.  The target audience for this book are students and researchers in Asian studies , international development studies, and public administration, as well as practitioners working in the local governments discussed.  .