tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5025289375133103284.post5862852131735151944..comments2023-07-04T14:49:06.956+01:00Comments on <i>daKappo</i>: THE DEMOCRACY & THE HUMANITY WITHINKolukihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04635805676701525012noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5025289375133103284.post-84269947671290462642007-07-31T20:16:00.000+01:002007-07-31T20:16:00.000+01:00OK, Cho. I guess we tend to converge on some basic...OK, Cho. I guess we tend to converge on some basic points.<BR/>National budgeting, even when 'participatory', is always a central government domain and it can be used to a number of different things, including accentuating regional asymmetries arising from differences in local resource endowments, or worsening income differentials arising from all sorts of social and economic inequalities, or... Kolukihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04635805676701525012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5025289375133103284.post-17437754623020393222007-07-30T20:50:00.000+01:002007-07-30T20:50:00.000+01:00"Cho, I'm not sure that "in theory stronger and mo...<I>"Cho, I'm not sure that "in theory stronger and more centralised states are meant to be better at dealing with the challenges of inequality compared to heavily decentralised" - could you give me examples of this?"</I><BR/><BR/>I guess I could have put the sentence a little better :) Basically where you have heavily decentralised system of Government, you would have to accept that inequalities Chola Mukangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09468385023775217395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5025289375133103284.post-46736143110418156552007-07-29T20:08:00.000+01:002007-07-29T20:08:00.000+01:00Hi again Cho,Thanks for coming back to what's cert...Hi again Cho,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for coming back to what's certainly an interesting subject.<BR/>What I mean by local structures is very simply local government structures; local administrative authorities; structures that ensure political and economic administration at the local level and are simultaneously integrated in and accountable to central government structures in a systemic way.<BR/>A moreKolukihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04635805676701525012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5025289375133103284.post-30633613394518300552007-07-29T02:27:00.000+01:002007-07-29T02:27:00.000+01:00Thanks!"What I do not agree with is a centralized ...Thanks!<BR/><BR/><I>"What I do not agree with is a centralized government without any properly functioning local structures"</I><BR/><BR/>I agree.<BR/>The key though is what is meant precisely by local structures. <BR/><BR/>This is important because in Africa further decentralisation might also lead to weaker control mechanisms if certain areas have higher levels of income inequality -the richer Chola Mukangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09468385023775217395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5025289375133103284.post-45982349282000413852007-07-28T14:54:00.000+01:002007-07-28T14:54:00.000+01:00Hi Cho!Welcome to this space.I totally agree with ...Hi Cho!<BR/><BR/>Welcome to this space.<BR/>I totally agree with you. I do not advocate a purely decentralised system of government: that wouldn't be a 'system' anymore, but and atomised body with totally separated parts, making each one of the local authorities a government in itself and... an autonomous national state. The point I’m trying to make here is that local government is key for the Kolukihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04635805676701525012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5025289375133103284.post-91306950496198250662007-07-28T13:53:00.000+01:002007-07-28T13:53:00.000+01:00Isn't the point actually one that often made, that...Isn't the point actually one that often made, that as good as decentralised Government may be, you need Central Government to eliminate the incentives for "gaming" among local authorities. A purely decentralised system of Government would probably not be socially optimal in a world with political boundaries that only a national state can resolve.<BR/><BR/>Nice blog by the way :)Chola Mukangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09468385023775217395noreply@blogger.com