Description
Going Local makes a strong, original, and lively contribution to the literature on governance in developing countries. Grindle's work examines local politics in a way that makes them integral to the analysis of positive as well as negative outcomes. As in all good research, her findings seem to cut across the existing paradigms, building on them while at the same time moving our understanding of the world to a higher plane. -- Judith Tendler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Decentralization is one of the central processes underway in most countries and Merilee Grindle offers nuanced context about this development. Beyond the specific findings, Going Local can serve as a model for how to do theory-based scholarship with innovative methods and fieldwork. -- John Bailey, Georgetown University
About the Author
Merilee S. Grindle is Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author, most recently, of "Despite the Odds: The Contentious Politics of Education Reform" (Princeton).
Reviews
"In analyzing the exciting array of promising reforms as well as the inertia of clientelistic traditions, Grindle weights the introduction of political-party competition, the role of innovative ideas and entrepreneurial leaders, the implementation of modern methods of public administration, and the logic of civil society."--Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs "Merilee Grindle has already made her reputation as a painstaking scholar of governance, bureaucracy and policymaking in Latin America and across the developing world, but Going Local seals her standing as a leading analyst of governance."--Diane E. Davis, ReVista "[T]his book will be a valuable reference not only for scholars interested in decentralization or local government in Mexico, but for anyone who is interested in public affairs... Grindle contributes to all these discussions, and does so in an entertaining and convincing way."--Guillermo M. Cejudo, Public Administration Review "Going Local provides an important contribution to our understanding of just these issues. This book provides what is perhaps the most methodologically sound, comprehensive look at the effects of decentralisation in Mexico."--Emily Edmonds-Poli, Bulletin of Latin American Research "Grindle's research has a strong practical orientation, and focuses on the nuts-and-bolts of implementing sustainable reform in industrializing countries... Going Local is applied research at its best."--Francis E. Hutchison, ASEAN Economic Bulletin
Book Information
ISBN 9780691140988
Author Merilee S. Grindle
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 369g