Repertoires of Domination: Decentralization as Process in Botswana and Senegal

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 439-449

  Poteete, Amy R ^a   Ribot, Jesse C ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Botswana; Decentralization; Democratization; Domination; Natural resource management; Senegal

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; DEMOCRATIZATION; NATURAL RESOURCE; POLITICAL POWER; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

BOTSWANA; SENEGAL;

EID: 79551470953     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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