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This 9 page paper describes the centralization and decentralization issues within public administration; includes a treatise on the history, the benefits, and management trends. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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us to learn that the new, indigenous governments that replaced them were almost everywhere highly centralized. Centralization of a government administrative system was usually part of the inheritance of
the new government from the colonists. Additionally, because agriculture and natural resources were the main economies in these countries, the focus was on public investment on national infrastructure networks
that supported broad regional development (e.g., dams, irrigation) and marketing its output (main roads, ports); and "these had to be planned from the center" (Fogg PG). Somtime during the
early 1970s, however, the performance of most of these governments was becoming more commonly criticized as rigid, unresponsive, inefficient, and oftentimes ruled as corrupt. A number of explanations for
their failures can be considered. One of these reasons is the onset of rapid urbanization. In 1960 for instance, only twenty-two percent of the population of the worlds
"less developed regions" lived in their cities and towns, but over the next thirty years, the more urban areas received fifty-two percent of their total growth. Even more urbanization
is anticipated. The urban populations of these regions grew by 35 million per year between 1960 and 1990; they are expected to increase additionally by around 80 million annually between
1990 and 2020 (Fogg PG). By the late 1970s, most of the so-called centralized providers of national infrastructure were besieged with complaints from localities. The solution to this instance
that was recommended generally was to decentralize much of the responsibility for local infrastructure services as well as the management of urban development, to the local governments. The full
case for decentralization here can be seen in many texts but at its core is the conviction that since local governments are closer to the people, they should be more
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