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Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Pages 163-180 | Published online: 04 Aug 2010

  • Carter , G. 1958 . The Politics of Inequality London
  • Mattes , R. 1995 . The Election Book Cape Town Prior criticisms of 'racial census' explanations can be found in
  • Seekings , J. 1997 . 'From the ballot box to the bookshelf . Journal cf Contemporary African Studies , 15 ( 2 )
  • 1998 . Courtney Jung's PhD dissertation , Yale University . on political identities, which is to be published shortly by Yale University Press
  • Rose , R. and Mishier , W. 1998 . 'Negative and positive party identification in post-Communist countries' . Electoral Studies , 17 ( 2 )
  • Schickler , E. and Green , D.P. 1997 . 'The stability of party identification in Western Democracies' . Comparative Political Studies , 30 ( 4 )
  • 2000 . 'Country Profile: Zimbabwe. The Local Government System in Zimbabwe' . Commonwealth Local Government Forum, London , : 5
  • Reddy , P. S. 1999 . Local Government Democratisation and Decentralisation , 13 Juta & Co . The is a notion repeated by
  • pgf>Those interested in alternative views on decentralisation would benefit, in my opinion, from looking at Judith Tendier, Good Government in the Tropics, John Hopkins University Press, London: 1997 and her numerous citations of the decentralisation sceptics. In one extended note she writes, A good number of these cautionary statements about decentralization 'fever' are written by researchers working for the World Bank, or are found in papers commissioned by the Bank. In proposing that the Bank support research on decentralisation within the context of rural development (RD) programs, for example, Binswanger (1994: viii) states that 'it is not even possible to state whether greater decentralization … is associated with greater success in RD and rural service delivery or not, or whether it results in better targeting of the poor and reduced poverty levels [or] causes better RD outcomes.' These cautionary statements of researchers, nevertheless do not seem to have dampened the enthusiasm for decentralization, or the claims made for it, in the kinds of donor publications cited above, including those of the World Bank, or in the approach of these organisations to designing projects and giving advice.' (p. 175) Tendier's book looks at the performance of governments in Brazil.
  • Trapnell , C. G. 1953 . Soils, Vegetation and Agricultural Systems of North-Eastern Rhodesia , Lusaka : Government Printers .
  • Schmidt , Elizabeth . 1992 . Peasants, Traders and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939 , London : James Currey .
  • Raftopoulos , Brian and Yoshikuni , Tsuneo , eds. 1999 . Sites of Struggle: Essays in Zimbabwe's Urban History , Harare : Weaver Press . For this tradition, see
  • Jeater , Diana . 1993 . Marriage, Perversion and Power: The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1894-1930 , Oxford : Clarendon Press .

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