What is it about?
Countries around the world have been facing numerous challenges in promoting citizen participation in the governance process. Among them, elite capture is considered to be a significant stumbling block that undermines such process. From a developing country local governance perspective, this research has identified elite capture as a key barrier to participatory governance. It has found a number of issues such as inaccurate perception, weak monitoring, ineffective management, non-functional representation and a defective legal framework responsible for ‘elite captures’ across local government entities in Bangladesh.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
The research has implications for international development agencies, local government researchers and governments of Bangladesh and other developing countries endeavouring to build participatory governance at grassroots levels. The study may also provide a platform for future research on elite capture and challenges and opportunities of implementing effective local participatory governance, from both developed and developing country perspectives.
Perspectives
Researchers and public managers talk about elite capture of governance process. But, we were interested to know how elites in a society create barriers to participation and governance. Writing this article is therefore a pleasure to us, since in this article we are able to explain how elites capture participatory mechanism.
Wahed Waheduzzaman
Swinburne University of Technology
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Elite capture of local participatory governance, Policy & Politics, October 2018, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.1332/030557318x15296526896531.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
