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Summary
Stein Sundstøl Eriksen, ‘The Limits of Local Democracy: Decision-Making and Popular Influence in a Tanzanian and a Zimbabwean Council’, Forum for Development Studies, 1999: 2, pp. 203–234.
The article analyses processes of decision-making in two councils with formally democratic systems of local government—one in Tanzania and one in Zimbabwe. The concrete systems of decision-making in the two councils are examined and assessed in terms of the extent and form of popular influence. The aim is to assess whether these systems make people's self-government possible, or whether (and to what extent) ‘the people’ remain objects of government policies, in spite of rhetoric about democracy and popular participation.