Participatory Governance Reform: A Good Strategy for Increasing Government Responsiveness and Improving Public Services?

World Development

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2379-2398

  Speer, Johanna ^a  

^a Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accountability; Government responsiveness; Literature review; Participatory governance; Public services

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; REFORM PROCESS; SERVICE PROVISION; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 84869092101     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.034     Document Type: Article

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