The Politics of Municipal Administration in Iran: A Case‐Study of Isfahan*

1975 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 228-239
Author(s):  
Ann Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Administration

Multiplicity in Municipal Administration and Its Implication on Urban Planning Functions in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Oluwole Daramola ◽  
Ayodeji Olatunji ◽  
Ademola A. Akanmu ◽  
Adewale Yoade ◽  
Deborah Bunmi Ojo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
The State ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
Legislative Reform ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Multiple Components ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Activity Areas

This study assessed the effects of multiple components of municipal administrations on the functions of urban planning agencies in Nigeria, using Osun State as the case study. It examined the profile of the professionals across the levels of planning agencies in the state, the key activity areas of the planning agencies, operational parameters of the planning agencies, and the relationship between the planning agencies. Data used for the study were sourced from questionnaire administered on the heads of all the 35 planning agencies in the state. The study revealed that the agencies experienced conflict of interest in their operations and the reason for that was mostly jurisdictional. Also, the agencies seldom related with one another. The study concluded that the structure of municipal administration in Nigerian is responsible for proliferation of planning agencies and, consequently, the duplication of planning functions in the state, nay, Nigeria. It recommended, among others, legislative reform for effective municipal administration in the state and Nigeria, as a whole.

scholarly journals Capacidad de Gestión Administrativa de los Municipios Peruanos: Estudio Comparado de Seis Municipios de la Región Ica

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Augusto Girao ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Administrative Units

This article analyzes the capacity of administrative management of Peruvian municipalities, taking as a case study six municipalities of the Ica Region. The administrative capacities of the municipal governments can be assessed based on the analysis of their municipal organizational structures. For the analysis of this, 3 indicators were established: municipal management and planning, human resources and material resources. The indices show that the management capacities of the municipalities under study are in a deficient situation. As a consequence, there is no defined course of the municipal administration, since the management is directed to address everything without an improvised plan in the long term. Likewise, there is a lack of interest on the part of municipal officials to innovate and improve the administrative management capacity of their respective municipalities. Above all, functions related to planning, management of administrative units of municipal basic structure and municipal administrative systems, which is seen with greater emphasis in rural municipalities, according to the data shown.

scholarly journals Municipal integrated coastal governance approach: complimentary disciplinary instruments and collaboration pre-conditions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maija Stokmane ◽  
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Anita Lontone-Ievina ◽  
Raimonds Ernsteins ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Municipal Planning ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Coastal Governance ◽  
Limited Success ◽  
Financial Infrastructure ◽  
Governance Practice ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Further Development

Municipal coastal governance practice also in Latvia has various limitations, and taking into account growing climate change adaptation challenges, new understanding and new approaches are to be studied and tested. Overall study frame is based on research-and-development approach. The aim of the research was to study how municipal coastal governance is functioning in practice, particularly, in the relation to the coastal dune protection zones (150/300 m) and further coastal territory behind that, applying whole list of governance instrument groups – political/legal, planning, and especially institutional instruments, also financial, infrastructure and, last but not least, coastal communication instruments. This was done via research-and-governance frame of the three coastal governance dimensions – governance content, stakeholders (governance segments) and governance instruments, realized in Jurmala municipality as especially nature-culture rich and due to tourist attraction also sensitive coastal pilot territory at the Latvia coast. Case study research methodology applied (document studies, observation and stakeholder’s interviews) were approving pre-study understanding, based on previous coastal governance studies, that also this territory with international coastal resort status and well developed municipal administration capacities have limited success on integrated coastal management (ICM) approach implementation and, subsequently, there are requirements on further development of disciplinary instruments and also collaboration governance as ICM preconditions. An integrated ICM approach was internationally designed and approved also for EU coastal countries, since comprehensive requirement to manage the adequate governance of the coast as complex socio-ecological system, but old shaped long existing traditional disciplinary/branch approaches of former and formal municipal planning and management does not really permit necessary innovations with cross-sectorial and cross-level integration perspectives. However, also orientation towards re-use and/or re-development of disciplinary ICM instruments, especially, to be designed and realized as complementary as possible and collaboration governance developments shall be seen as necessary pre-conditions for ICM adequate development.

Core Redevelopment, Neighbourhood Revitalization and Municipal Government Motivation: Twenty Years of Urban Renewal in Quebec City

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Filion
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
The Core ◽  
Municipal Policies ◽  
The One ◽  
Municipal Level

AbstractThis article investigates the motives behind policy-making at the municipal level. More specifically, it argues that local governments are guided in the formulation of their policies by a need to reconcile fiscal and electoral considerations. On the one hand, by focussing on urban renewal initiatives it shows that an important proportion of municipal policies are primarily devoted to the maintenance or the bolstering of the taxation base. On the other hand, a description of the different guises taken by urban renewal over a 20-year period highlights the influence electoral circumstances have on the configuration of renewal strategies. Urban renewal efforts undertaken by Québec City's municipal administration provides the case study for this article. It identifies the impetus for launching these efforts and identifies the economic and electoral factors that produced a transition from a form of urban renewal involving a redevelopment of the core area, to one assuring the preservation of the built environment of central neighbourhoods.

Urban Government under the Raj A Case Study of Municipal Administration in Nineteenth–Century South India

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South India ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Urban Government ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government

Until very recently, scholars of nineteenth-century India have tended to dismiss the role of urban government and politics as trivial or inconsequential. Most have reached their conclusions by studying the formation of policy in London or Delhi, using the private papers of high officials or reports prepared by the Government of India. A standard authority on British policy of this period states that local self-government ‘proved to be a tree which never took firm root. Local self-government never gained major significance in the political history of modern India.’ Local self-government failed, according to another scholar, because ‘… a rigid system of supervision was created, which ran from the smallest municipality up to the Secretary of State for India.’ In his opinion, this control and shortage of funds can be held responsible for the lack of development in ‘… the scope of public services, which were confined to the bare essentials.’ A dreary picture of petty quarreling in municipal government and stagnation in urban services prevails, alleviated only by the appearance of Lord Curzon as Viceroy in 1899 and his efforts to instill some ‘dynamic influence’ into local government. Although the policy of local self-government satisfied neither official aims nor nationalist aspirations, its importance for local politics and administration is now undergoing a major reassessment.

scholarly journals Geographical transition of urban areas. When regeneration not necessarily means gentrification. A case study from Bologna (Italy)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Filippo Pistocchi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tertiary Sector ◽  
Resident Population ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Urban Transition ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Partial Process

Some cities or neighborhoods with a specific socio-economic vocation suffer the phenomenon of change and abandonment, which generates socio-functional and economic redefinitions. This has also happened to the city of Bologna which, over the last 150 years, has experienced a rapid process of economic development, moving from a primary sector economy to a economy based on the industry, to then end up with the most advanced specializations in the tertiary sector. Thus, industries and factories (which had attracted a substantial national workforce) were closed. This has produced the formation of numerous «urban voids», which have turned into abandoned and degraded areas, such as in the Bolognina neighborhood. The consequence was initially the abandonment by the resident population: dwellings remained empty were subsequently occupied by new arrived inhabitants. At first this transition generated contrasts between the pre-existing citizens and the new ones. For this reason, the municipal administration has initiated a series of interventions, aimed on the one hand at the regeneration of the neighborhood in its ethno-socio-economic peculiarities, on the other at the refunctionalization of abandoned areas, to the point of generating a partial process of gentrification. With reference to the territorial Municipality data and according to some published essays and field researches through the Bolognina neighborhood (site inspections and conversation with residents), this article confirms the idea that urban gentrification, urban transition, and urban regeneration are territorial processes in opposition to each other. Each of them can have characteristics and features that are appearently typical of the others, but which, taking shape in a particular territory, are complex geographical phenomena.

scholarly journals Administrative Delicts: A Case Study in Unlawful Municipal Administration

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
Joseph Eliot Magnet
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Statutory Power ◽  
Administrative Body ◽  
The Individual

Municipalities are prone to abuses of power by elected officials. The law books overflow with examples of municipal illegality. This threatens the rule of law. Courts require sufficient remedial authority to maintain the rule of law. An adequate remedy would simultaneously correct the illegal situation, deter repetition, compensate those injured, channel public outrage and, in certain cases, allow supervision of corrupt governmental processes or officials. To satisfy these requirements, a new head of liability is needed. Liability in damages should be imposed for intentional jurisdictional excess. The developing doctrine of administrative delict would provide for damages for deliberate and malicious abuse of power. Damages for an intentional or negligent failure of an individual or administrative body to operate within jurisdiction should be available either against the individual in his personal capacity or against the administrative body. Because many of the wrongs suffered as a result of the illegal use of power are intangible, exemplary damages should be readily available in an action for administrative delict. This remedy would also enable the courts to consider deterrence and breach of public trust in assessing the award. It is the responsibility of administrative law to maintain a sense of orderliness in public administration. The theory of administrative delict needs doctrinal nourishment in order to restrain the abuses of authorities imbued with statutory power.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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