Decentralized Governance in Multi-Party Systems in Uganda: Challenges to Service Delivery in Local Governments of Uganda.
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2013-05-02
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Journal of African and Asian Local Government Studies
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Political parties are believed to play an essential role in the functioning of modern
democracy. They are central actors in a democratic system that organize and
articulate interests and ensure political participation and competition, a major
feature of local governance and democracy. Political parties perform several roles
critical to the functioning of a democracy as they are the central means to aggregate
interests and thereby translate mass preferences into public policy. Uganda's case has
been an ambitious decentralization policy with real power transfers from central
government to local governments. The country has also transited from a non-party
'movement system' to a multiparty dispensation. In spite of this, the country is still
grappling with the challenge of service delivery. This study was a cross sectional
survey that adopted a case study design to examine the challenges of local governance
in a multi-party dispensation on service delivery in Uganda. Findings indicate that the
functioning of local governments in this new political discourse of multiparty
dispensation is yet to have a positive impact on service delivery. The multi-party
awareness does not tally with the practice. The study concluded that the policy
disharmony, the multiparty operation awareness and the internal party democracies
have had minimal contribution to service delivery in local governments in Uganda.
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Kiwanuka, M. (2013). Decentralized Governance in Multi party Systems in Uganda: Challenges to Service Delivery in Local Government of Uganda. Journal of African and Asian Local Government Studies, 2(2), 104.