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| 1 |   | Introduction: situating contested notions of decentralized planning in the global south by Faranak Miraftab and Christopher Silver and Victoria A. Beard |   | 1 | 
| Sect. 1 |   | Decentralization: contexts and outcomes |   | 19 | 
| 2 |   | Decentralization and entrepreneurial planning by Faranak Miraftab |   | 21 | 
| 3 |   | Decentralization, privatization and countervailing popular pressure: South African water commodification and decommodification by Patrick Bond |   | 36 | 
| 4 |   | Decentralized planning and metropolitan growth: poverty and wealth in Buenos Aires suburbs by Nora Libertun de Duren |   | 55 | 
| 5 |   | New spaces, new contests: appropriating decentralization for political change in Bolivia by Benjamin Kohl and Linda Farthing |   | 69 | 
| Sect. 2 |   | The challenges of fiscal and administrative decentralization |   | 87 | 
| 6 |   | The evolution of subnational development planning under decentralization reforms in Kenya and Uganda by Paul Smoke |   | 89 | 
| 7 |   | Decentralization in Vietnams water sector: community level privatization in the Mekong Delta by James H. Spencer |   | 106 | 
| 8 |   | Decentralization and local democracy in Chile: two active communities and two models of local governance by Anny Rivera-Ottenberger |   | 119 | 
| Sect. 3 |   | The role of civil society and community actors in decentralization |   | 135 | 
| 9 |   | Community-driven development and elite capture: microcredit and community board participation in Indonesia by Victoria A. Beard and Menno Pradhan and Vijayendra Rao and Randi S. Cartmill |   | 137 | 
| 10 |   | University-community partnership: institutionalizing empowered and participatory planning in Indonesia by Christopher Silver and Tubagus Furqon Sofhani |   | 158 | 
| 11 |   | En(gendering) effective decentralization: the experience of women in Panchavati Raj in India by Kajri Misra and Neema Kudva |   | 175 | 
| 12 |   | Decentralization and social capital in urban Thailand by Amrita Daniere and Lois M. Takahashi |   | 188 | 
| 13 |   | Decentralization and the struggle for participation in local politics and planning: Lessons from Naga City, the Philippines by Gavin Shatkin |   | 204 | 
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