A nation in a hurry’
The costs of local governance reforms in Rwanda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11904456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niamh Gaynor (0000-0001-5645-7032, Dublin City University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | sup1 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056244.2014.976190 |
| OpenAlex | W2070105451 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 23 |
Almost 20 years on from the horrors of the genocide, Rwanda is drawing considerable international attention as it emerges as a leading African success story. Its strong economic performance, with growth rates averaging 8% over the last 10 years, has led some to argue that it represents a new form of African developmental state. This article draws on fieldwork conducted in 2013 to examine the political impact of the government's developmental reforms at local levels. Charting developments in local governance over the last decade, it demonstrates an increasing centralisation of deliberation and decision-making on local development in tandem with growing pressures and demands on local communities to invest – physically and financially – in centrally promoted activities and programmes. The findings, which uncover growing levels of popular disquiet and dissent with the centrally driven approach, raise questions regarding the level of embeddedness and legitimacy of the regime and therefore the sustainability of its development project, The findings also challenge the currently popular ‘good enough governance’ agenda in that they demonstrate that local governance and state–societal relations do matter, most especially when the pressures and costs for local development outcomes fall heavily on local communities
Centralisation · Corporate governance · Deliberation · Development economics · Economics · Embeddedness · Legitimacy · Local governance · Local government · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Cambodian History and Society · International Development and Aid · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Public Administration
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Evaluating the Success of Decentralisation in Facilitating the Inclusion of Rwanda’s Marginalised
Exploiting International Development Ideals. The Rwandan Government’s Approach to Local Participation in Light of its Exercise of National Ownership
The political path to universal health coverage
Statistics versus livelihoods
The road to sustainable Kigali
Poverty amid plenty
Untangling blame and responsibility for service delivery and local governance performance
We Are Poor, So We Keep Quiet
Taking stock of Rwanda's decentralisation
Beneath the veneer
Rwanda
The Great African War
Embedded Autonomy
Thinking about developmental states in Africa
The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Re-Imagining Rwanda
Rwanda's Vision 2020 halfway through
State Building for Peace
State Building, Security and Development
The Order of Genocide
Good Enough Governance
Developmental patrimonialism? The case of Rwanda
Re-Engineering Rural Society
Constructing the truth, dealing with dissent, domesticating the world
Rwanda, ten years on
Even if I am not here, there are so many eyes
Rhetorical legacies of leadership
Managing Dissent in a Post-genocide Environment
Do We Understand Life after Genocide? Center and Periphery in the Construction of Knowledge in Postgenocide Rwanda
Explaining the design of the Rwandan decentralization
| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 1,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |