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Latin America's Resurgent Centre: National Government Strategies after Decentralisation

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  • J. Tyler Dickovick
  • Kent H. Eaton

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This article identifies the 'menu of options' available to national governments as they seek to re-assert the centre's prerogatives in the aftermath of decentralisation. These include policy strategies, bureaucratic strategies, institutional strategies and societal strategies, each of which has afforded opportunities for the centre to reclaim the role of protagonist that it lost as a result of decentralisation. Illustrated through the use of examples from across Latin America, our survey of these options shows that, short of outright recentralisation, national politicians and bureaucrats have been highly creative in their search for strategies to re-centre politics.

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  • J. Tyler Dickovick & Kent H. Eaton, 2013. "Latin America's Resurgent Centre: National Government Strategies after Decentralisation," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(11), pages 1453-1466, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:49:y:2013:i:11:p:1453-1466
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2013.797073
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    1. Hoey, Lesli, 2015. "“Show me the Numbers”: Examining the Dynamics Between Evaluation and Government Performance in Developing Countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 1-12.
    2. Resnick, Danielle, 2018. "The devolution revolution: Implications for agricultural service delivery in Ghana:," IFPRI discussion papers 1714, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    3. Hoey, Lesli, 2017. "Reclaiming the Authority to Plan: How the Legacy of Structural Adjustment Affected Bolivia’s Effort to Recentralize Nutrition Planning," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 100-112.
    4. Fabian Telch & Susan Appe, 2022. "How can countries improve human development? Four distinct national planning strategies and the challenges for human development ahead," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(2), March.
    5. Zarychta, Alan, 2020. "Making social services work better for the poor: Evidence from a natural experiment with health sector decentralization in Honduras," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 133(C).

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