Comparative Issues In Local Government And Community Studies

Term Paper , 2019 , 53 Pages

Politics - General and Theories of International Politics

This paper analyses the concept of local governments, taking into account several examples.

Local governments, an authority to determine and execute measures within a restricted area inside and smaller than a whole state. Some degree of local government characterizes every country in the world, although the degree is extremely significant. The variant, local self-government, is important for its emphasis upon the freedom of the locality to decide and act.

There is more than a technical importance in the difference between the two terms, because they are related to the distinction sometimes drawn between deconcentration and decentralization. Local government is often, but not necessarily, related to the former; local self-government to the latter. These distinctions are important, even if they are blurred. Deconcentration broadly means that, for the sake of convenience, some functions have been devolved from a central government to administration on the spot. Power is still administered through officials appointed by and responsible to the centre, and authority and discretion are vested in the centre. On the other hand, decentralization represents local government in areas where the authority to decide has been devolved to a council of locally elected persons acting on their own discretion with officials they themselves freely appoint and discipline.

Table of Contents

1. Concept of Local Government

2. Features of Local Government

3. Importance of Local Government

4. Modern State and Its Origin

5. Organs of State

6. Local Government and The Modern State

7. Devolution and Decentralization of Power

8. Local Government in an Inter Government Environment

9. System of Local Government in Nigeria

10. The Evolution of Local Government in the Former Eastern Nigeria

11. Evolution of Local Government in the Former Region

12. Northern Nigeria Native Authority

13. The Northern Nigeria Native Authority Law 1954

14. Evolution of Local Government in the Former Western Region

15. Local Government in Nigeria Under the Regional and State Government

16. The Dasuki Report and Local Government

17. Local Government Under Ibrahim Babangida Rigime

18. Local Government Autonomy in Nigeria

19. Issues in Local Government

20. Sources of Local Government

21. Local Government Services Commission

22. Functions of the Commission

23. Local Government and Rural Transformation

24. Types of Local Governments

25. Models of Local Government

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• Author: Abdulganiyu Salim (Author)
• Publication Year: 2019
• Pages: 53
• Catalog Number: V1154628
• ISBN (eBook): 9783346550545
• ISBN (Book): 9783346550552
• Language: German
• Tags: comparative, issues, local, government, community, studies