Titre

Decentralized Corruption or Corrupt Decentralization? Community Monitoring of Poverty-Alleviation Schemes in Eastern India

Type
article
Institution
Externe
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Véron, René
Auteure/Auteur
Williams, Glyn
Auteure/Auteur
Corbridge, Stuart
Auteure/Auteur
Srivastava, Manoj
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
ISSN
0305-750X
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2006
Volume
34
Numéro
11
Première page
1922
Dernière page/numéro d’article
1941
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Democratic decentralization and community participation often stand at the center of an agenda of "good governance" that aims to reduce corruption and increase the state's accountability to its citizens. However, this paper suggests based on empirical studies on the Employment Assurance Scheme in rural West Bengal that the strength of upward accountability (especially to political parties) is as crucial as downward accountability to communities. When these vertical accountabilities are weak, horizontal accountability structures between local civil society and officials can mutate into networks of corruption in which "community" actors become accomplices or primary agents.
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