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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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