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Title: | Development Administration and Political Control: The District Administration in Lesotho |
Author: | Picard, Louis A. |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | Rural Africana |
Volume: | 18 |
Period: | Winter |
Pages: | 27-44 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Lesotho |
Subjects: | development public administration Development and Technology Politics and Government |
Abstract: | Development administration and political control are usually seen as two discrete elements of the political process. Sometimes, however, as is the case in Lesotho, development management efforts become linked to regime survival techniques. Administrative deconcentration, coordinated at the local level by a development team, provides a mechanism for political penetration and the impression of a governmental presence at the district and village level. These two interrelated faces of Lesotho, the evolving and deepening problem of political control as reflected by the increases in violent opposition to the regime, and governmental attempts to find a pattern of district level administration which will defuse opposition at the local level and, failing that, control it, are examined in the present article. Notes, ref. |