TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bergh,Sylvia I.
TI  - The politics of development in Morocco: local governance and participation in North Africa 
T2  - Library of development studies
SN  - 978-1-84885-921-0
U1  - 320.809640905 23E
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - GOUVERNANCE LOCALE
KW  - DECENTRALISATION
KW  - PARTICIPATION POLITIQUE
KW  - DEVELOPPEMENT RURAL
KW  - TRANSITION DEMOCRATIQUE
KW  - POLITIQUE GOUVERNEMENTALE
KW  - MAROC
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 307-332
N2  - Since the mid-1990s, Morocco has sought to present itself as a model of genuine and gradual reform, with decentralisation as a key tenet of this. Here, Sylvia Bergh investigates the dynamics of popular participation and local governance, testing the extent to which the current structure builds local capacity, or whether it is, in fact, a tool for 'soft' state control. She narrates the realities of local administration and civil society to shed critical light on questions of democratic transition in North Africa. Her assessment of decentralisation and participatory development projects in rural Morocco, and the legal and policy frameworks in which they operate, leads to the conclusion that they have generally not yet led to an expansion of a civil society able to build local capacity or enhance bottom-up empowerment. Grounded in an approach of the 'anthropology of policy', this book makes an important contribution to literature on the democratisation, development and governance in North Africa
ER  -