8.  Further Reading:

What follows is a list of some useful publications from the extensive literature on decentralization.

Blair, H. 1995 Assessing Democratic Decentralization: A Center for Development Information and Evaluation (CDIE) Concept Paper.USAID/CDIE, Washington.

Cheema, G.S. and D. Rondinelli. 1983 Decentralization and Development: Policy Implementation in Developing Countries (Sage, Beverly Hills).

Crook, R. and J. Manor. 1999 Democracy and Decentralization in South Asia and West Africa: Participation, Accountability and Performance. Cambridge University Press.

Dukesbury, J.M. 1991 Decentralization and Democratic Pluralism: The Role of Foreign Aid. USAID/CDIE/POA, Washington.

Fox, J. 1994 "Latin America's Emerging Local Politics", Journal of Democracy (April) 105-15.

Gibson, J. and P. Hanson. 1996 Transformation from Below: Local Power and the Political Economy of Post-Communist Transitions (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham).

Manor, J. 1999 The Political Economy of Democratic Decentralization (World Bank, Washington).

Mawhood, P. 1993 Local Government in the Third World: Experience of Decentralization in Tropical Africa, 2nd edi.(Africa Institute of South Africa, Cape Town).

Nickson, R.A.. 1995 Local Government in Latin America (Lynne Rienner, Boulder).

Parker, A. 1995 "Decentralization: The Way Forward for Rural Development?", Policy Working Paper 1475. (World Bank, Washington).

Tordoff, W. 1994 "Decentralisation: Comparative Experience in Commonwealth Africa", Journal of Modern African Studies (December) 555-80.