Developmental local governance : [electronic resource] a critical discourse in alternative development / Edited by Eris Dawn Schoburgh; John Martin; Sonia Gatchair.

Includes index.

Cover; Series page; Title; Imprint Page; Contents; List of Boxes; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Post-development Theory and the Local Developmental State; 2 Developmental Local Government: From Concept to Praxis; 3 The Evolving Roles and Relationships of Governmentsin Local Economic and Sustainable Development: The Case of the United Kingdom (and Particularly England); 4 Local Government and Economic Development in the Australian Federation: Dispersed Efforts in a Complex Geography. 5 From National to Local Economic Development (LED): The South African Case6 Nigerian Local Government System and Governance: Lessons, Prospects and Challenges for Post-2015 Development Goals; 7 Managing Development in Local Government: Frameworks and Strategies in Jamaica; 8 The Imperative of a Local Economic Development Approach in the Context of the Dutch Disease; 9 The Making of Developmental Local Government in Belize; 10 Informality and Developmental Local Government: What Is at Stake?; 11 From Developmental Local Government to Developmental Local Governance.

The primary purpose of this edited collection is to evaluate critically the relationship between local government and national economic development. It focuses on how the relationship between local government and development is structured, and the specific institutional arrangements at national and subnational levels that might facilitate local government's assumption of the role of development agent. In light of the contradictory outcomes of development and implied experimentation with new modalities, post-development discourse provides a useful explanatory framework for the book. Schoburgh, Martin and Gatchair's central argument is that the pursuit of national developmental goals is given a sustainable foundation when development planning and strategies take into account elements that have the potential to determine the rate of social transformation. Their emphasis on localism establishes a clear link between local government and local economic development in the context of developing countries.