Decentralizing Development: The Political Economy of Institutional Change in Columbia and Chile

by Alan Angell, Pamela Lowden, Rosemary Thorp

Does decentralization work in practice? Does it strengthen local level democracy and economic development? This book examines these questions by analyzing the experience of seven medium sized cities in Colombia and Chile. The authors draw on extensive fieldwork involving numerous interviews with actors at all levels and from all sectors. The result is a unique test, at the local level in Latin America, of the outcome of reforms to the institutional structure of government.

252 pages, Hardcover

First published March 29, 2001