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Modelling differential urban growth dynamics for growth decentralisation: a study on Tiruchirappalli metropolitan and sub-tier towns, India
Urbanisation requires careful planning and monitoring to overcome challenges like overpopulation, inadequate housing, and sanitation. Significant...
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Democratic decentralisation and promotion of accountability in urban development in Bangladesh
The success of decentralisation highly depends on improving local government accountability. Although a decentralisation process exists in...
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Health Sector Decentralisation and Delivery of Responsive Healthcare in Ghana
In this chapter, we examine the implications of Ghana’s health sector decentralisation for the delivery of responsive healthcare in some selected...
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Why Legitimacy Matters: The Institutional Perspective of Educational Decentralisation
This chapter provides some literature reviews on relevant existing studies to identify certain aspects this book should contribute and elaborates the...
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The Politics of Educational Decentralisation in Indonesia A Quest for Legitimacy
“The Politics of Educational Decentralisation in Indonesia: A Quest for Legitimacy is a well written, analytically sharp, and compelling study of...
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Degrowth, Diversity and Decentralisation: Building Sustainable Food Systems for Food and Nutrition Security
Modern agricultural and food systems have caused immense damage to human health and the environment. To build sustainable food systems for food and...
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Managing Global and Local Institutional Pressures: Decentralisation and the Legitimacy Project in Indonesia
The chapter argues that educational decentralisation is politically constructed for the sake of rejuvenating the central state’s legitimacy. Under...
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Electricity Distribution Networks in the Decentralisation Era Rethinking Economics and Regulation
This book explores the changing economics, regulations, and operations of electricity distribution networks. It highlights the central challenges and...
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Educational Decentralisation and the Rise of the New Managerial State: The Case of Surabaya City
This chapter discusses another form of educational decentralisation practice, where the local education system is organised in the managerialist way....
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Educational Decentralisation and the Rise of the Neo-Patrimonial State: The Case of Kupang City
This chapter provides an analysis of how political decentralisation has facilitated the consolidation of neo-patrimonial regimes centred on the local...
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Electricity Distribution Networks and Decentralisation Paradigm
In this chapter we describe the paradigm shift that is currently underway in the energy system away from passive distributed energy resources towards...
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Degree of Decentralisation in Spain and Powers of the Autonomous Communities
Because of the quality of the powers and the quantity of resources, the political, state and administrative structure of Spain is amongst the most...
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The USA: Decentralisation and Denial
The USA had the highest numberdenials of COVID-19 cases (32.1 million) and deathsdeaths (572,200) in the world, as of 26 April 2021. These tragic...
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From Centralised to Decentralising Global Economic Architecture The Asian Perspective
This book focuses on the recent rise of new regional economic institutions such as the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation, the Asian...
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Introduction
The chapter introduces us to the problems of educational decentralisation both as a global practice internationally and as a local practice in...
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Managing the Decentralising International Trade Architecture
Global economic governance is in flux. The centralised international trade architecture of the post-Bretton Woods era is decentralising as new...
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Metropolitan governance and local decentralisation in India: case of Chennai and Kolkata metropolitan regions
India is one of the very few countries which have metropolitan administration in place to administer its metropolis. ‘Metropolitanisation’ of...
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Conclusion
This chapter discusses the theoretical and practical implications of the study. For the sociological neo-institutional theory, the book offers new...
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Analysis of the spatial allocation of resources for a sustainable rural economy: A wide-areal coordination approach
Excessive spatial concentrations of populations and economic activities are problematic in many countries and regions. To solve these problems,...
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Manipulating the Institutional Legitimacy: The Centralised Standards in the Decentralised Structure
This chapter discusses the resumption of the central state control of education through the power of standardisation. It discusses how the central...