Strengthening local governance in Bangladesh : reforms, participation and accountability / Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chowdhury, Shuvra, author.

Panday, Pranab Kumar, author.

Series:

Public administration, governance and globalization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation.

Public administration.

Local government.

Politics and government.

Bangladesh--Politics and government--21st century.

Bangladesh.

Local government--Bangladesh--21st century.

Public administration--Bangladesh.

Political participation--Bangladesh.

Physical Description:

xv, 216 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people's participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP and its relation to social accountability, examine how much of the social participation is spontaneous and how much is politically induced, question the success of the Citizen's Charter and Right to Information acts as mechanisms for social accountability, and present suggestions to remedy some of the problems facing people's participation and accountability in the UP. This book fills existing gaps in the discourse by adding new information to the literature on development research and legal reforms in Bangladesh, specifically in how those legal reforms have led to strengthening or weakening people's participation in local government. The target audience for this book are students and researchers in Asian studies , international development studies, and public administration, as well as practitioners working in the local governments discussed.

Contents:

Introduction

Policy impact study : a conceptual framework

Past reforms on people's participation and accountability at the local level in Bangladesh

Governance, people's participation, accountability, and the Act of 2009

Process of participatory planning and budgeting at the local level

Ensuring social accountability through public forums

Ensuring transparency through Citizen's Charter and Right to Information

The role of administrative and political culture in civic engagement

Challenges in innovations in public management in third world countries

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319732838

9783319732831

OCLC:

1013739077