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Book Chapter | 2012

Conselhos locais e institucionalização democrática em Moçambique: dinâmicas e desafios

Forquilha, Salvador Cadete and Aslak Orre (2012)
in Bernhard Weimer (ed.): Moçambique: Descentralizar o Centralismo - Economia Política, Recursos e Resultados. Maputo: IESE
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http://www.iese.ac.mz/lib/publication/livros/Descent/IESE_Decentralizacao_3.3.ConLoc.pdf

An analysis of the consultative councils, or councils of local representatives, in Mozambique. These councils appeared in the 2000s as an alternative mechanism of participation and representation in the rural areas where local elections are not held. The article argues that the ruling party, Frelimo, set-up the councils, and maintains them, with a strong degree of de facto party control. 

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http://www.iese.ac.mz/lib/publication/livros/Descent/IESE_Decentralizacao_3.3.ConLoc.pdf

Aslak Jangård Orre

Senior Researcher
  • aslak.orre@cmi.no
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Reconstructing traditional authority - for whom? Political parties, state

Aug 2005 - Dec 2010
  • Mozambique
  • Local governance
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Book Chapter | 2012

Conselhos locais e institucionalização democrática em Moçambique: dinâmicas e desafios

Aslak Jangård Orre

Moçambique: Descentralizar o Centralismo - Economia Política, Recursos e Resultados

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