Decentralization in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Autor:	Andrew Siddle, Thomas A. Koelble
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Government education.field_of_study Constitution media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Population Legislature Public administration Decentralization Democracy Local government Political Science and International Relations Economics Obligation education media_common
Zdroj:	Regional & Federal Studies. 24:607-623
ISSN:	1743-9434 1359-7566
DOI:	10.1080/13597566.2014.971773
Popis:	Decentralization in South Africa was entrenched in the new democratic constitution of 1996 and charged local government with bringing basic and other services to the population. Our in-depth empirical study of 38 municipalities across South Africa indicates that the experiment with decentralization has largely failed to achieve its main aims—democratizing local government and delivering adequate basic services to all communities. In order to provide some answers to the question as to why this failure occurred, we focus attention on the legislative over-burdening of local government and its concurrent lack of institutional capacity to actually turn legal obligation and decentralization principles into practice as two of the main and related causes for this failure. While the South African constitution gave clear mandates to local government, the issue of adequate institutional capacity for municipal government was largely overlooked or ignored altogether.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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