scholarly journals Conceptual aspects regarding local autonomy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Stefanita ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Democracy ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Administrative Process ◽  
Administrative Decentralization

Defining the principle of local autonomy, as a basic one of the administrative process, is absolutely crucial. There are different opinions in this regard, being related to other concepts such as administrative decentralization, local democracy and others. The article aims to formulate some general conceptual aspects of self-government based on various ideas, historical events and acts.

scholarly journals Legal Analysis of the Role of Islamic Urban and Rural Councils in Administrative Decentralization and Local Democracy in Iran

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mohammad Zadeh Asl Mohammad ◽  
Manoochehr Tabatabei Motameni ◽  
Heibatollah Najandimanseh ◽  
Hoseein Masudniya ◽  
Manoochehr Tavasoli Naini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Great Achievement ◽  
Objective Sign ◽  
Administrative Decentralization

<p>Administrative decentralization is one of the most marvelous achievements of public laws in current age. Obviously, based on the title of the book namely Islamic Councils, we mean a certain type of local decentralization is shaped by geographical areas. In modern administrative laws, decentralization is raised in two geographical and technical aspects. Local councils are objective sign of geographical decentralization and legal figures of public laws such as universities are instances of technical decentralization.</p>In this concept, decentralization is shaped by two concepts of “managerial independence” and “elective decision making authority”. In modern administrative system, decentralization means to increase the authorities of elected officials whose proficiencies are assignable only in a region of the country. Before getting familiar with such great achievement, we should address the philosophy governing decentralization and its status in modern democracies.

Two faces of decentralization in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-302
Author(s):  
Jun Koo ◽  
Byoung Joon Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Administrative Decentralization

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review historical progress and current picture of decentralization in Korea from political, administrative and fiscal perspectives. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on economic as well as political theories regarding decentralization and describes historical development of the local autonomy system in Korea. Findings This paper discusses the current discrepancies among the progress of political, administrative and fiscal independence in the local autonomy system in Korea and concludes that the lack of fiscal independence in the local level significantly undermines the efficacy of political and administrative decentralization in Korea. Originality/value Decentralization has three distinct perspectives. This paper examines decentralization in Korea from all three perspectives.

scholarly journals Interventions and intersections: institutional environment and local level autonomy in LEADER. A comparative study

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-131
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Brooks ◽  
Katalin Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Autonomous Operation ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

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 addressed by a revision[1]. After introducing the alliance, the first chapter was entitled “Decentralisation and Autonomy”, indicating the direction of the desired shift towards a more autonomous operation. The LEADER Programme is scrutinised in this article from the point of view of autonomy and local democracy, exploring to what extent these are linked with or distinct from higher level governance transformations towards decentralisation or recentralisation. Theoretical approaches derived from rural and government studies are interpreted in the first sections of the paper, exploring the debate regarding the correlation of autonomy and local democracy and the way it is manifested in LEADER. Most authors regard LEADER as a promoter of local democracy and identify a positive correlation between democracy and an enhanced local autonomy. However, a consensus among scholars also seems to be unfolding from these studies suggesting that the scope of ‘LEADER democracy’ is mostly narrow, restricting participation to more resourceful social groups due both to the ‘thematic filters’ of the Local Development Strategy and to ‘procedural filters’, such as capacities allocated to the staff for animation and assistance to overcome difficulties of application. The empirical research background of this article is provided by two case studies, which were conducted in 2018-2019, one in England (Northumberland Uplands) and one in Hungary (Balaton Uplands), two states with complex recent histories and trajectories in terms of devolution of governance to lower levels and local autonomy. The secondary interpretation of these case studies focuses on the degree of participation and autonomy of LAGs. The analysis reveals that the degree of autonomy (and to some extent of participation) declined in both countries in the last iteration compared to the 2007-13 programming cycle. It has also been uncovered that rather than the ‘post transition’, recentralised Hungarian context, it was the British institutional system and governance tradition that permitted more top-down intervention and less autonomy for the LAGs.     [1] A NATURAMA Szövetség Akciócsoportjainak javaslatai az UMVP III. IV. tengelye intézkedéseinek hatékonyabb megvalósítása érdekében. [Suggestions of the NATURAMA Alliance for the more effective implementation of III-IV axes of the RDP], 2010. http://leadercontact.com/images/stories/https___leaderkontakt.pdf

Decentralization in Public Administration and Provision of Services: An East — Central European View

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
T M Horváth
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Voluntary Associations ◽  
Functional Integration ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Administrative Decentralization ◽  
East Central European

Administrative decentralization is the technical side of democratization. Two examples are decentralization in the structure of public administration, and decentralization in provision of local services, which seems to be more complicated, Some type of integration is necessary for ‘real’ administrative decentralization, the purpose of which is to get closer to democratization. However, fragmentation is not a synonym of decentralization. According to my hypothesis the more decentralized a system the more necessary it is to integrate its basic units. There are different forms of integration. The scale is very wide: it varies from amalgamation, to the creation of voluntary associations among municipalities. Administrative decentralization does not exclude public managerial integration in service delivery. In East – Central European countries, parallel to the structural decentralization, different new forms of integration are emerging, simply as a result of the establishment of local institutions in place of former monopolies. This nonadministrative, functional, integration seems to be very important for the development of effectiveness in local democracy.

The Issue of Local Autonomy in the Slovenian Local Government System

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Kukovič ◽  
Miro Haček ◽  
Alan Bukovnik
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The State ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Subsidiarity Principle ◽  
The One ◽  
Opinion Polls

The paper analyses the autonomy of Slovenian municipalities toward the central government. Slovenia is one of the very few countries in the European Union with a one-tier local government system, and while levels of local democracy have been on the rise for the last two decades, relations between the state on the one side and local units (municipalities) on the other has slowly deteriorated, especially over questions of municipal competencies, central oversight and the local financing of local communities. While Slovenia ratified the European Charter on Local Government in 1996, the charter was never fully implemented, as the subsidiarity principle was never fully implemented by the state. The paper will analyse the issue of local autonomy with special emphasis on the three mentioned topics, using primary and secondary sources as well as empirical data from several opinion polls conducted among stakeholders from national and local authorities.

scholarly journals The Evaluation of Regional Head Election: Developing Synergy of Regional Autonomy and Regional Head Election

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-151
Author(s):  
Sitti Aminah
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Regional Elections ◽  
Administrative Decentralization

The reform aims to achieve democracy, prosperity, and justice at the local level. Even though the reform process has been rolling for more than two decades, the goal of reform in realizing local democracy through an ideal regional head election is still far from expectations. This study aims to analyze the causes of the absence of synergy between regional autonomy and regional elections and identify the causes. A qualitative approach is used in the literature review method. The result showed that the root of the problem is not creating a synergy between regional autonomy and regional head elections because the application of the decentralization concept in Indonesia is dominated by the administrative decentralization perspective and the lack of actualizing the political perspective decentralization. The definitions of decentralization and regional autonomy in Acts tend to preserve centralization. Besides, regional autonomy's main objective places more emphasis on the administrative objectives of government and regional development rather than the development of local democracy. The lack of synergy between regional autonomy and regional elections is the gap between expectations and reality and conflicts at the ideological and technical levels. The gap between expectations and reality can be seen from the hope of realizing the acceleration of the democratization process at the local level, but technically, regional autonomy is characterized by an oligarchy of political parties and transactional politics. There are some suggestions for the Ministry of Home Affairs to revise the policy packages for decentralization and regional autonomy, especially in articles regulating the definition and objectives of regional autonomy, as well as revising Acts of Regional Head Election and Acts of Political Parties, particularly regarding the mechanism for nominating regional heads.

EVALUACIÓN Y DELIMITACIÓN DE LAS COMPETENCIAS LOCALES EN FRANCIA: PROBLEMAS Y VENTAJAS DE SU APLICACIÓN EN ESPAÑA

2010 ◽  
pp. 165-190
Author(s):  
CRISTINA ZOCO ZABALA
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
National Regulation ◽  
Effi Ciency ◽  
Sobre Todo

El trabajo ha tenido un doble objetivo. En primer lugar, se han expuesto las ventajas de la experimentación normativa en Francia, con la fi nalidad de que esta técnica pueda ponerse en marcha con ocasión del segundo proceso de descentralización local en España. La experimentación es una técnica jurídica que permite al Estado francés evaluar a priori los resultados de la adaptación del poder reglamentario local a las condiciones previstas en una ley o en un reglamento nacional. Contiene indudables ventajas, pues permite, tras una evaluación positiva, delimitar las competencias de las colectividades territoriales para garantizar la efi cacia de la democracia de proximidad. En segundo lugar, se han expuesto los problemas y sobre todo las ventajas que puede reportar en España la puesta en marcha de la experimentación normativa francesa. En este sentido, se ha entendido que la derogación parcial de normas, en que la experimentación consiste, no tendría razón de ser en relación con la determinación estatal de lo básico, por cuanto ello supondría una nueva sustracción de atribuciones estatales añadida a la que resulta de la distribución competencial compartida. Sin embargo, sería un instrumento de utilidad para valorar la eficacia de la democracia de proximidad y delimitar el quantum de la autonomía local en las leyes autonómicas sectoriales, con arreglo a dicha utilidad. Helburu bi izan ditu lanak. Lehenengo eta behin, Frantziako arau- esperimentazioaren abantailak azaltzen ditu, Espainian, toki-deszentralizazioaren bigarren prozesua dela-eta, teknika hori abian jartzeko helburuz. Esperimentazioa teknika juridiko bat da, eta Frantziako Estatuak a priori ebaluatu ditzake, hori baliatuta, Estatuko lege edo erregelamendu batean aurreikusitako baldintzak betetzeko tokiko erregelamendu-ahalak egin beharreko egokitzapenaren emaitzak. Abantaila ugari ditu. Izan ere, hari esker, ebaluazioaren emaitzak positiboak izanez gero, lurralde-kolektibitateen eskumenak mugatu daitezke, demokrazia hurbilaren eraginkortasuna bermatzeko. Bigarrenik, Frantziako arau-esperimentazioa Espainian abian jartzeak ekar ditzakeen arazoak eta, batez ere, abantailak azaltzen ditu. Zentzu horretan, ulertu da ez litzatekeela arauen indargabetze partziala (horretan datza esperimentazioa) egiteko arrazoirik egongo, Estatuaren oinarrizkoa denaren gaineko determinazioari dagokienez. Hori egitekotan, Estatuari, eskumen partekatuen banaketaren ondorioz kentzen zaizkion atribuzioez gain, atribuzio gehiago kenduko litzaizkioke-eta. Tresna erabilgarria izango litzateke, ordea, demokrazia hurbilaren eraginkortasuna baloratzeko, bai eta lege autonomiko sektorialetan toki-autonomiaren quantuma, erabilpen horren arabera, mugatzeko ere. This work had a twofold objective. Firstly, the advantages about normative experimentation in France with the aim of putting into operation this technique within the second process of local descentralization in Spain. Experimentation has been a legal technique that enabled the French State to test ¿a priori¿ the results of local regulatory power to the conditions set forth by an Act or a national regulation. It has unquestionable advantages because after a positive assessment the territorial entities¿ powers are defi ned in order to guarantee the effi ciency of local democracy. Secondly, the problems and specially advantanges the French normative experimentation system might bring to Spain are explained. In this respect, the partial abolition of provisions, which is what experimentation is all about, would be purposeless as far as the defi nition of basic in State terms is because it would be a new sutraction of State powers added to the sharing of powers. Nevertheless, it would be an useful tool for assessing the efficiency of local democracy and defi ning the local autonomy quantum of sectorial autonomous acts, as in conformity with that tool.

scholarly journals Can National Development Thrive Without Local Government’s Constructive Input? Outlook of Nigeria, with Lessons for Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-355
Author(s):  
Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo ◽  
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NTSIKELELO BENJAMIN BREAKFAST ◽  
ITUMELENG MEKOA ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
National Development ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Services Delivery

Satisfactory nationwide development without constructive local governments’ input is mutually exclusive. Meaning that institution of effectual local administrations not to produce deleterious interaction-effect of development is essential. This paper evaluates published articles between 2010 and 2020 on Nigerian context to comprehend what undermines impactful local governments’ participation in national development to pinpoint lessons for African nations. It addresses the question of how abject local government in place do not support its positive involvement in overall national development. The intrinsic purpose of local government according to the classical theory’s logic is the paper’s theoretical foundation. Deriving from a literature review methodology, the paper proffers reform agendas to enhance optimal efficacy of local administrations in the intergovernmental relations schemes for development in Africa from literature insights of the Nigerian situation. The analysis parallel the three thematic codes evolved from the classical theory’s justification of local government: optimization of local governance, enhancement of local democracy, and facilitation of efficient local services delivery. It observes that implementation of ineffectual decentralization policies and lack of local autonomy are critical factors undermining optimum development in Nigeria, viz African countries. Whereas, decentralization and local autonomy accentuates the centrality of local government in the national developmental trajectory.

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