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Political decentralization has not been matched by administrative decentralization at the grass roots level. Explain.

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  • Grassroots Democracy

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Political decentralisation transfers authority to elected local representatives; administrative decentralisation transfers planning, management and staff. Dennis Rondinelli graded the latter as deconcentration (to field officers of the centre), delegation (to semi-autonomous agencies) and devolution (to autonomous local governments with their own staff and revenue); fiscal decentralisation concerns money. The 73rd and 74th Amendments legislated the…

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  • Political decentralisation: achieved
  • Administrative decentralisation: withheld
  • Why the gap
  • Counter-view and remedy
  • Conclusion
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