Comparative Local Government — Scriptorium Liberum

Comparative Issues in Local Government A

📁 Comparative Issues in Local Government Accounting

✍ Elio Borgonovi, Eugenio Anessi-Pessina (auth.), Eugenio Caperchione, Riccardo Mu 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English

In recent years there have been a number of significant reforms in local government accounting practices around the world. While the specific reasons for these changes vary, a common factor is the increasing need for governments to measure the efficacy and efficiency of their performance. Nowhere

Improving Local Government: Outcomes of

📁 Improving Local Government: Outcomes of Comparative Research

✍ Michiel S. de Vries, P. S. Reddy, M. Shamsul Haque (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan UK 🌐 English

Foundations for Local Governance: Decent

📁 Foundations for Local Governance: Decentralization in Comparative Perspective

✍ Fumihiko Saito (auth.), Dr. Fumihiko Saito (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 🌐 English

Various forms of decentralization are recently pursued in the world, including developing countries. However, there has not been a coherent framework to access these intended outcomes generated by decentralization measures implemented in Asian and African countries. This book provides such a f

Foundations for Local Governance: Decent

📁 Foundations for Local Governance: Decentralization in Comparative Perspective

✍ Fumihiko Saito (auth.), Dr. Fumihiko Saito (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 🌐 English

Various forms of decentralization are recently pursued in the world, including developing countries. However, there has not been a coherent framework to access these intended outcomes generated by decentralization measures implemented in Asian and African countries. This book provides such a f

Decentralization and Local Governance in

📁 Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective

✍ Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 The MIT Press 🌐 English

Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in t

The Structure of Local Governments Throu

📁 The Structure of Local Governments Throughout the World: A Comparative Introduction

✍ Samuel Humes (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 1959 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

1. The purpose The purpose of this study is to gain an insight into and make an introductory comparison of the structure of local government in many countries throughout the world. More specifically the aim is to define and describe in a comparative fashion the various organs of local government