Results 1 to 10 of about 5,918,227 (253)

Five years of local democracy in federal Nepal (2017–2022)

open access: yesAsia & the Pacific Policy Studies
Nepalʼs 2015 federal constitution empowers local governments with significant autonomy, power, and resources for local policymaking, developmental programs, and public services. This research examines this new landscape of local governance as experienced
Thaneshwar Bhusal, Keshav Kumar Acharya
doaj   +2 more sources

Size and Local Democracy

open access: yes, 2014
How large should local governments be, and what are the implications of changing the scale of local governments for the quality of local democracy? These questions have stood at the centre of debates among scholars and public sector reformers alike from antiquity to the present. This monograph offers the first systematic cross-national investigation of
Denters, Bas   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Local democracy and public accountability in Uganda: The need for organisational learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The paper examines the impact of public accountability mechanisms in the Uganda's decentralisation local governments. Some of the common tools used for evaluation of local government performance have been presented and discussed including the baraza ...
Kyohairwe, Stella
core   +4 more sources

Local democracy and forms of direct citizen participation in governance: Case study Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesSrpska Politička Misao, 2023
The subject of this paper is the institutions of direct democracy at the local level in Serbia, with the aim of analyzing valid solutions (de lege lata) and improving the legal framework (de lege ferenda).
Radojević Mijodrag
doaj   +1 more source

Local values in local political culture and democracy; A review of hermeneutics among local elites [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The reforms provided space for local elites, both traditionally based (Bangsawan) and political elites (Bureaucrats-Politicians) to contest in the arena of local democracy.
Arifin, Syamsul   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Euroregion Tatry – nowa jakość współpracy polsko-słowackiej

open access: yesSprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2022
The Tatra Euroregion – A New Quality in Polish-Slovak Cooperation The Tatra Euroregion is a non-governmental organization which has actively and professionally implemented various trans-frontier operations in the Polish- Slovak borderland for the last ...
Łukasz Lewkowicz
doaj   +1 more source

Local and Global Democracy

open access: yesGlocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2016
Glocalism
doaj   +2 more sources

The quality of local democracy: an institutional analysis

open access: yesLocal Government Studies, 2021
Much of the literature on quality of democracy is case study-oriented and focused on nation states. Theoretical work and, in particular, comparative empirical research on the quality of local democracy are less advanced.
Luís de Sousa   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Local Government Response to COVID-19: Revitalizing Local Democracy in Bangladesh

open access: yesInternational Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, 2021
The study aims to identify the role of local government and its transformation in response to the COVID-19. It also shows how local governments extended the scope of accountability and transparency to strengthen democracy.
Z. Hossain
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Methodical approaches to monitoring local democracy: purpose, classification, content

open access: yesЕкономіка, управління та адміністрування, 2023
Monitoring of local democracy is an important component of effective decision-making in the field of public administration as it forms the public trust in democracy.
D.O.
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy