Decentralisation, Power and Networked Governance Practices in Metro Manila

• Main Author: Porio, Emma E
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2012
• Subjects: Politics and Social Change; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/1; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562576.2012.698128
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The institutionalisation of decentralisation among urban local governments in the Philippines since the 1990s has been highly documented. While most of the studies have hailed its progressive development, a few have argued that decentralisation has also led to the further entrenchment of traditional...