Local Politics and Democratic State-Building

State-building goes wrong when local politics is ignored. State-building begins not from anarchy, but from decentralized social order. In democratic state-building, transfers of power to a new national government require popular consent. A democratic state-building mission needs a stabilization-assi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of democracy 2022-10, Vol.33 (4), p.62-73
1. Verfasser: Myerson, Roger B
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:State-building goes wrong when local politics is ignored. State-building begins not from anarchy, but from decentralized social order. In democratic state-building, transfers of power to a new national government require popular consent. A democratic state-building mission needs a stabilization-assistance team that can engage with national and local leaders as they negotiate a balanced distribution of power. When the goal is to promote political development, international assistance should be directed by local stabilization officers who can encourage trusted leaders to cooperate in a broad coalition for local governance. An instructive example is USAID's Office of Rural Affairs in Vietnam in 1962–64.
ISSN:1045-5736
1086-3214
1086-3214
DOI:10.1353/jod.2022.0047