Bridging local institutions and civil society in Latin America
Can city-to-city cooperation make a difference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12242581 |
|---|---|
| Authors | MARIKE BONTENBAL (Utrecht University, corresponding author), Paul Van Lindert (Utrecht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 465-481 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Urbanization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0956-2478 • E-ISSN: 1746-0301 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0956247808096123 |
| OpenAlex | W2103361450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 17 |
In order to improve the quality of urban governance in cities in the South, it is believed that local institutions and citizens should be brought together more closely. To bridge the gap, there is a need both for citizen participation to have a stronger role in collective decision making and for institutional strengthening, to make local governments more responsive to community needs. This paper explores the role that North—South city-to-city cooperation can play as an instrument for meeting those needs. The outcome of two partnerships between cities in Nicaragua and Peru and their sister cities in the Netherlands is discussed in terms of the resulting support to urban governance. The case studies reveal that while city-to-city cooperation has a particular potential to strengthen local governments, their administrations, service delivery performance and levels of responsiveness, the outcome with regard to encouraging citizenship and citizen participation in urban decision making and development planning has been more modest
Bridging (networking · Business · Citizenship · Civil society · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Latin Americans · Local governance · Local government · Political science · Politics · Service (business · Service delivery framework · Urban planning · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Local Economic Development and Planning · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration
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Transnational linking of local governments
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City Networking With the ‘Global South’
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Good Enough Governance Revisited
The New Management of British Local Governance
Let us build cities for life
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Participatory governance in Peru
Urban governance and health development in León, Nicaragua
Participatory budgeting
Participation and Accountability at the Periphery
The Role of International Municipal Cooperation in Housing the Developing World’s Urban Poor
Evaluating city-to-city cooperation
Cities working together to improve urban services in developing areas
Twinning’ as a Method of Sustainable Institutional Capacity Building
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |