Table des matières
1. Introduction
- 1.1. Reproducing Western states through state-building and decentralisation
- 1.1.1 Deconstructing state-building
- Fragility and conflict as criteria for intervention
- International stability as rationale for state-building
- Effective states as aim of state-building
- 1.1.2 Deconstructing decentralisation
- The history of decentralisation
- The international community’s understanding of decentralisation
- Hopes connected with decentralisation
- 1.2. Data collection
2. Decentralisation as a tool for service delivery and development
- 2.1. The decentralised structure of government
- 2.1.1 The CPA and the Interim Constitutions
- 2.1.2 The Local Government Act 2009
- The legislative and the executive at County level
- The role of the traditional authorities
- 2.2. Service delivery and development as the primary goal of local governments
- 2.2.1 Bringing development and services to the people
- Service delivery
- “Taking the towns to the people”
- 2.2.2 Self-rule for tribes
- 2.3. Tracing the government’s understanding of decentralisation in history
- 2.3.1 Sudan’s experiences with decentralisation
- Historical Sudanese features
- Southern Sudanese peculiarities
- 2.3.2 Decentralisation and traditional authorities under the SPLM/A
- Garang’s vision and the early 1980s
- The changes of the 1990s and the early 2000s
- 2.4. Adapting the Western state to the local context
- USAID
- World Bank
- GTZ
- UNDP
3. Decentralisation as a right to self-rule
- 3.1. The exclusionary character of decentralisation as a form of self-rule
- 3.1.1 The purposes of decentralisation
- 3.1.2 The “us vs. them” dichotomy
- Natives vs. strangers
- Struggles between tribes
- 3.2. Making use of decentralisation
- 3.2.1 The role of decentralisation in the proliferation of administrative units
- 3.2.2 The role of decentralisation in the capital relocation debate
- 3.3. Decentralisation as the appropriation of an abstract and distant state
- 3.3.1 Legitimating exclusion from access to resouces
- 3.3.2 Localizing and personalizing the state
4. Questions of understanding, discourses and power
- 4.1. Comparing the different interpretations of decentralisation
- 4.2. The power of the state-building discourse
- 4.2.1 Mechanisms at play in legitimating interventions
- 4.2.2 The Western state as ideal
- 4.3. The power of the people
- 4.3.1 Making use of the international discourse
- 4.3.2 Power struggles and the historical aims pursued with decentralisation
- 4.3.3 Experts vs. people or blueprints vs. political disputes
