Local Politics and Democratic State-Building
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6288450 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger B Myerson, Roger Myerson (0000-0003-0254-7184, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 62-73 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2022.0047 |
| OpenAlex | W4306354105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
State-building goes wrong when local politics is ignored. State-building begins not from anarchy, but from decentralized social order. In democratic state-building, transfers of power to a new national government require popular consent. A democratic state-building mission needs a stabilization-assistance team that can engage with national and local leaders as they negotiate a balanced distribution of power. When the goal is to promote political development, international assistance should be directed by local stabilization officers who can encourage trusted leaders to cooperate in a broad coalition for local governance. An instructive example is USAID's Office of Rural Affairs in Vietnam in 1962–64
Corporate governance · Democracy · Economics · Local government · Management · Negotiation · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · State-building · Law · Public Administration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |