Jean-Paul Faguet is professor of the political economy of development at the

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(LSE) and author or editor of six books and many academic and news articles, including ''Is Decentralization Good for Development? Perspectives from Academics and Policy Makers'', and ''Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia'', which won the Political Science Association’s W.J.M. Mackenzie award for best political science book of 2012. He has advised the governments of numerous developing countries, as well as the

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and the

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reforms, poverty alleviation programs,

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, and the design of social investment funds. He is ranked amongst the global top 0.5% of social scientists according to the

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, and the global 1% of economics authors according to RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). He is known for the "One-country, large-N" empirical approach, using blended quantitative and qualitative methods for the analysis of complex problems of political economy and public policy. He is Chair of the Decentralization Task Force at

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, part of

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, and head of the LSE's MSc in Development Management In 2008-09 he was a visiting professor at the

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. In 2016 he was a visiting researcher at

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and in 2017 he was a visiting researcher at

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. Previously he worked for the

in La Paz, Bolivia. He studied political science and economics at

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and the

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, where his dissertation won the William Robson Memorial Prize.

Selected publications

Books

* Faguet, J.P. and S. Pal (Eds.). 2023. ''Decentralized Governance: Crafting Effective Democracies Around the World.'' London: LSE Press. * Faguet, J.P. and C. Pöschl (eds.). 2015. ''Is Decentralization Good for Development? Perspectives from Academics and Policy Makers.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Faguet, JP (ed.). 2014. “Decentralization and Governance.” Special Issue of ''World Development'', 53: 1-112. * Khan, Q., J.P. Faguet, C. Gaukler and W. Mekasha. 2014. Improving Basic Services for the Bottom Forty Percent: Lessons from Ethiopia. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. * Faguet, JP. 2012. ''Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia.'' Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. * Zuazo, M, JP Faguet, and G Bonifaz (eds.). 2012. ''Descentralización y democratización en Bolivia: La historia del Estado débil, la sociedad rebelde y el anhelo de democracia.'' La Paz: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Non-Academic Press

* Faguet, J.P. 21 October 2015. “Expert Commentary: Better for Business.” ''The Cipher Brief'' * Faguet, J.P.. 15 October 2015. “Interview: After Riding Commodities Boom, Bolivia Faces Stress of Falling Prices.” ''World Politics Review'' * Faguet, J.P. 27 October 2014. “Es notable que los países que más inversión extranjera atraen, tienden a ser federales y no unitarios.” ''FAO AgroNoticias América Latina y el Caribe'' * Faguet, J.P. 17 September 2014. “Scottish independence: David Cameron is becoming the 'George Bush of Britain'” ''The Independent'' At LSE, he teaches courses on Development Management and Revolution and Development.

References

External links

LSE homepage

Governance from Below website

Video interview segments on Federalism and Industrial Policy

Hard Talk interview (1'14") on Is decentralization good for service delivery?

ResearchGate

Is Decentralization Good for Development?, World Bank video seminar
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