Going Local:
Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good
Governance.
Princeton
University Press,
2007.
Merilee Grindle,Edward S. Mason Professor of International
Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University.
“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.
