Local Governance Reforms in Africa

2009 ◽  
pp. 127-165
Author(s):  
Norbert Kersting ◽  
Janice Caulfield ◽  
R. Andrew Nickson ◽  
Dele Olowu ◽  
Hellmut Wollmann
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Governance Reforms

Local Governance Reforms in Asia

2009 ◽  
pp. 167-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Kersting ◽  
Janice Caulfield ◽  
R. Andrew Nickson ◽  
Dele Olowu ◽  
Hellmut Wollmann
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Governance Reforms

Local Governance Reforms in Latin America

2009 ◽  
pp. 77-125
Author(s):  
Norbert Kersting ◽  
Janice Caulfield ◽  
R. Andrew Nickson ◽  
Dele Olowu ◽  
Hellmut Wollmann
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Governance Reforms

scholarly journals Citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation: evidence from Western Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Strebel ◽  
Daniel Kübler
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Local Cooperation ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Citizens Attitudes ◽  
Governance Reforms

AbstractRecent decades have seen a strengthening of local autonomy in many European states. At the same time, local governance capacities were strengthened through intermunicipal structures and territorial consolidation to prepare local authorities for additional tasks. In this paper, we assess what citizens think about strengthening local autonomy and strengthening inter-local cooperation. We argue that citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation are a function of their behavioural, emotional and ideological connection to the local. Using data from a population-based survey in eight West European metropolitan areas in France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK, we show that local autonomy and inter-local cooperation supporters have divergent ideological positions concerning the allocation of political authority across state scales. Inter-local cooperation is supported by voters of new progressive left parties but opposed by right-wing nationalist partisans—who in contrast favour local autonomy. This suggests that the demarcation–integration divide which structures citizens’ attitudes towards international integration also matters for subnational and local governance reforms.

Empowering people: Role for political social work in South Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 877-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bala Raju Nikku ◽  
Zain Rafique
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Reform Policy ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Governance Reforms

South Asian governments have initiated political reforms engaging in rhetoric that resonates with the paradigms of good governance and empowerment of people. This article, applying a political social work framework, analyses reform policy in Pakistan and India in South Asia. By doing so, the article investigates the politics of local governance reforms in Pakistan and India within the context of domestic politics, institutional power and dynamics, and bureaucratic traditions and civil society activism. The article argues for renewed South Asian political social work that catalyzes robust local governance through citizen participation, resulting in the empowerment of people.

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