| Foreword |
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Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| SECTION 1 Participatory Local Governance in the Making |
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1 Participatory Local Governance in the Making: Opportunities, Constraints and Prospects |
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1 | (17) |
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2 The Role of Local Government |
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18 | (13) |
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3 International Trends in Local Government Transformation |
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31 | (9) |
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4 Local Government in the Emerging National Planning Context |
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40 | (17) |
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| SECTION 2 Origins and Principles of Developmental Local Government |
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5 A Developmental Role for Local Government |
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57 | (22) |
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6 Developmental Local Government |
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79 | (13) |
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Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse |
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7 'Embedded Autonomy' and the Challenges of Developmental Local Government |
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92 | (13) |
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| SECTION 3 Differential Challenges |
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8 Addressing Rural Poverty: Restructuring Rural Local Government |
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105 | (22) |
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9 Introducing Metropolitan Local Government in South Africa |
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127 | (14) |
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10 Infrastructure and Service Delivery in South Africa, 1994-99 |
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141 | (18) |
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| SECTION 4 Policy Perspectives |
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11 Local Government and Poverty in South Africa |
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159 | (22) |
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12 Integrating Environmental Sustainability Issues into Local Government Planning and Decision-Making Processes |
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181 | (23) |
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13 Local Government's Role in Realising Gender Equality: From Policy to Practice |
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204 | (15) |
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14 Social Capital and Local Government |
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219 | (14) |
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| SECTION 5 Policy Tools |
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15 Local Government Finance Reform |
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233 | (18) |
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16 The Value of Indicators as a Tool for Local Government |
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251 | (11) |
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Susan Parnell and Mike Poyser |
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17 Municipal-Community Partnerships |
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262 | (14) |
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Firoz Khan and Peter Cranko |
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18 Capacity-Building for Sustainable Local Governance in South Africa |
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276 | (18) |
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19 The Dilemmas of Informality for African Urban Governance |
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294 | (11) |
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20 'My Soul I Can See': The Limits of Governing African Cities in a Context of Globalisation and Complexity |
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305 | (23) |
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Mark Swilling, AbdouMaliq Simone and Firoz Khan |
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| Index |
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