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LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT: FINANCIAL AUTONOMY AND LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Trakia Journal of Sciences
The aim of the study is to assess local self-government in Bulgaria, using financial indicators for fiscal independence of municipalities and the level of local democracy, and on this basis to formulate recommendations.
K. Petrova
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Crisis of democracy in Poland: Does it affect the subnational levels? [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo
Most current studies on the democratic or de-democratic changes in Europe have concentrated so far on the national level, while they are also important at the local and regional levels.
Szymański Adam
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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through decentralisation and the role of local governments: a systematic review

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2019
This paper is about the role of local democracy and governance to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Increased reliance on locally generated revenue, difficulties in managing networks of actors with diverse goals and objectives, imperfect ...
Joydeep Guha, Bhaskar Chakrabarti
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Enhancing municipal councillors’ oversight in local, district, and metropolitan municipalities

Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation, 2023
Background: Municipal councillors have a statutory and moral obligation to perform an oversight function over all municipal functions and ensure that suitable corrective measures are taken to deepen local democracy.
David J. Fourie, Gerrit van der Waldt
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Private neighbourhoods as club economies and shareholder democracies

Belgeo, 2003
The spread of privately governed and often guarded neighbourhoods in many countries of the world has been interpreted by several authors as a manifestation of a “privatisation of public space”. However, it often remains unclear what exactly is privatised
Georg Glasze
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Local Democracy in the West-Nordic Countries

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2020
In 2012, the research project West Nordic municipal structure. Challenges to local democracy, efficient service provision and adaptive capacity was granted money from the Arctic Co-operation Programme 2012-2014.
Grétar Þór Eyþórsson
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Interventions and intersections: institutional environment and local level autonomy in LEADER. A comparative study

Tér és Társadalom, 2021
In 2010, when hope emerged that the new conservative government would improve the governance of the LEADER Programme, the Naturama Alliance, a co-operative network of seven Hungarian LAGs, issued a Declaration that summarised procedural issues to be ...
Elizabeth Brooks, Kovács Katalin
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Development, Good Governance, and Local Democracy

Brazilian Political Science Review, 2008
This article analyses the concept of “good governance” as promoted by the international development community, above all by the World Bank, within the predominant neoliberal development approach, emphasising the implications for local governance and management in developing countries.
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Problem Kelembagaan Transisi Demokrasi Di Daerah

JKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik), 2015
Some scholars have focused their attention on the process of democratization at the local level They argue that democracy at the local level will encourage the emergence of democracy at the national level Furthermore, neo-institutionalism approach is ...
Kacung Marijan
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Philosophical and Legal Basis of Territorial Self-Governance

Barometr Regionalny, 2019
The subject of the article are selected philosophical and fundamental legal (i.e., systemic and constitutional, foundations of self-governance and local democracy).
Katarzyna Doliwa, Adam Doliwa
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