Introductory Note by the Editors-in-Chief Sten Hagberg and Jörgen Hellman Comparative Municipal Ethnographies Introduction: Comparative Municipal Ethnographies Sten Hagberg Community Development and the Third Wave of Decentralisation in Indonesia: The Politics of the 2014 Village Law Hans Antlöv Political Gender Dilemmas of Conflict and Complementarity in Bolivia: Quotas, Resistance and Parallelism Charlotta Widmark “Like the Chicken and the Egg”: Market Vendors and the Dilemmas of Neoliberal Urban Planning in Re-Centralised Kampala (Uganda) Anna Baral “Tout a été loti!”: Decentralisation, Land Speculation and Urban Expansion in Niamey, Niger Gabriella Körling and Hassane Moussa Ibrahima Diaspora-Driven Development and Dispute: Home-Area Associations and Municipal Politics in Mali Sten Hagberg and Bintou Koné From Refuge to Rights: Majnu ka Tilla Tibetan Colony in New Delhi Madhura Balasubramaniam and Sonika Gupta Local Politics in Controlling Commercial Sex in a Philippine Municipality Mari-Elina Ekoluoma Divisive Democracy, Urban Trade, and Small-Small Politics in Northern Ghana Ulrik Jennische The Rise and Fall of a Political Party: Handling Political Failure in Municipal Elections in Burkina Faso Sten Hagberg Bricolage About the Moralities of the Commons in the East African Cattle Economy Gudrun Dahl Harmonization and Ethnographic Critique in the Context of Innovation Politics Torbjörn Friberg Witnessing Anthropological Journeys, and the Returns: A Report from the 2019 Vega Symposium Jörgen Hellman