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<p>Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have introduced decentralization to increase democracy and improve services, especially in small communities far from capital cities. In <i>Going Local</i>, an unprecedented study of the effects of decentralization on thirty Mexican municipalities, Merilee Grindle describes how local governments respond when they are assigned new responsibilities and resources
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Merilee Serrill Grindle
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691140988
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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