Decentralization in Africa

Decentralization is one of the leading political reforms that developing countries have undertaken in the two decades since the end of the Cold War, and it has arguably been undertaken in more countries in Africa than anywhere else in the world. This book uses a structured comparative approach to bring together and examine a wide range of decentralization processes across Africa. It focuses on ten countries, examining each of them according to a common conceptual framework and preestablished set of criteria.