| Description |
1 online resource (279 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Are Constituency Development Funds a policy tool? / Mark Baskin -- Why CDFs in Africa? Representation vs. constituency service / Joel D. Barkan and Robert Mattes -- Money for small things: experience and lessons of Kenya's Constituency Development Fund / David Ndii -- In name only: Uganda's Constituency Development Fund / Nelson Kasfir and Steven Hippo Twebaze -- Earmarks in the United States / Diana Evans -- Drug dons and the development of executive driven bi-partisan CDFs in Jamaica / Horace Bartilow -- Constituency needs, constitutional propriety and clientelist patronage: Constituency Development Funds in India / Harry Blair -- Conclusion: Constituency Development Funds and the role of the representative / Michael L. Mezey |
| Summary |
This book explores the dynamics of distributive politics in developing democracies via a series of case studies of an emerging spending mechanism-constituency development funds (CDFs). It is germane to students of legislative studies, international development, comparative politics, and democratization. <br /> |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Income distribution -- Developing countries
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Distributive justice -- Developing countries
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Economic development -- Developing countries
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Democracy -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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Democracy -- Economic aspects
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Distributive justice
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Economic development
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Income distribution
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mezey, Michael L
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Barkan, Joel D
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Bartilow, Horace
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Baskin, Mark
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Blair, Harry
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Evans, Diana
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Kasfir, Nelson
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Mattes, Robert
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Ndii, David
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Twebaze, Steven Hippo
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| ISBN |
9780739180693 |
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073918069X |
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9780739180686 |
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0739180681 |
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