Honor Guards

Military personnel honoring the shrine of the 15 Bicol Martyrs commemorating its 113th year of heroism.

Military personnel honoring the shrine of the 15 Bicol Martyrs commemorating its 113th year of heroism.

Mayors of the Metro Naga Development Council sign a partnership agreement with the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW), formerly known as NCRFW, for the establishment of Common Service Facilities in their respective LGUs. (Seated from left: Mr. Francisco M. Mendoza, representing Naga City Mayor Jesse M. Robredo, Gainza Mayor Romeo A. Gontang, Magarao Mayor Nelson B. Julia, Milaor Mayor Rogelio A. Flores, Pili Mayor Romeo S. Salazar, and Bula Mayor Benjamin S. Decena.) Also present during the signing activity to represent the PCW is Ms. Luzviminda A. Villanueva, Manager of the GREAT Women Project (standing 3rd from right) and MNDC?s Executive Director Reuel M. Oliver (standing 2nd from left).
PSO Executive Officer Lito del Rosario demonstrating the power of the newly installed CCTVs at selected location, the equipment is aimed to beef-up peace and order situation in the city. Mayor Jesse Robredo along with city officials and office heads graced its formal opening.
This book provides a new institutional economics perspective on alternative models of local governance, offering a comprehensive view of local government organization and finance in the developing world. The experiences of ten developing/transition economies are reviewed to draw lessons of general interest in strengthening responsive, responsible, and accountable local governance. The book is written in simple user friendly language to facilitate a wider readership by p (more…)

Review”An important and valuable report about an important and valuable project. The information and statistics about procedural variations in governments around the nation and the status of their management systems have never been compiled and presented before with anywhere near this level of detail and analytical rigor.” — Hal G. Rainey, University of Georgia, author of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, 3rd ed., and Modernizing Human Resource Management in the Federa (more…)
This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; and clusters of high-technology activities. Building on the work of their previous book (Local Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise? OUP 2001), which charted the recent development of local clusters of specialized manufacturing among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, th (more…)
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“The authors have undertaken nothing less than tracing and evaluating the links between global governance and environmental politics, with a clear-cut and original stress upon the ways in which local and global dynamics interact. Their conceptualization of these interactions is especially compelling, partly because the links are so crucial to the ways in which environmental issues are subjected to governance but mainly because they probe the links in highly creative and persu (more…)
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`Its strength lies in combining theoretical insights with an impressive range of empirical material. The analysis is subtle and multi-layered…. This is a timely and important book’ – Political Studies `Local governance have gained massive attention among scholars and practitioners during the past several years. Peter John’s book fills a void in the literature by tracing the historical roots of local governance and by placing his findings in a comparative perspective’ – P (more…)

Various forms of decentralization are recently pursued in the world, including developing countries. However, there has not been a coherent framework to access these intended outcomes generated by decentralization measures implemented in Asian and African countries. This book provides such a framework based on comparative analyses of different experiences of decentralization measures in six developing countries, where the policy rationale to ‘bring services closer to people’ origin (more…)
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Brings together enterprising pieces of new research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast Asia that are sponsored or mandated by government, but engage widespread participation at the grassroots level. Straddling the state-society divide, these organizations play important roles in society and politics, yet are dimly understood.
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University of California, Santa Cruz. USA. Washington University, USA


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“Marshaled a team of young scholars to survey 30 medium-sized counties in Mexico to assess the accomplishments of political decentralization.” — Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs
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In analyzing the exciting array of promising reforms as well as the inertia of clientelistic traditions, Grindle weights the introduction of political-party competition, the role of innovative ideas and entrepreneurial leaders, the implem (more…)


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