local governance
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflocalandgovernance
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local
adjective
uk/ˈləʊ.kəl/us/ˈloʊ.kəl/
from, existing in, serving, or responsible for a small area, especially of ...
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governance
noun[U]
uk/ˈɡʌv.ən.əns/us/ˈɡʌv.ɚ.nəns/
the way that organizations or countries are managed at the highest level, and the systems for ...
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(Definition oflocalandgovernancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The fieldwork suggests that community-based institutions do not operate in isolation: they interact both with their constituent members and withlocalgovernanceinstitutions.
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Such districts pose a challenge to simplistic top-down or bottom-up models oflocalgovernance.
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However, local elders' authority and influence, which had endured pressures under both the colonial administration and the early post-independencelocalgovernancereforms, were completely bypassed during this campaign.
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Admittedly, codified law as well aslocalgovernancemade little interference with ' 'private contracts' ': is it enough then to create a condition of ' 'freedom of contracts' '?
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Secondly, when malfeasant local officials are disciplined, the local government incurs a heavier loss because it relies more directly on these officials forlocalgovernancethan does the central government.
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This requires a foundation of viable, real, developed structures oflocalgovernance.
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Finally, informants note that differing experiences of participation andlocalgovernancemay also be important in explaining the contrasts across regions.
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Their role inlocalgovernancehas dogged post-colonial leaders, and was a major factor in the first military intervention in 1967.
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The ' quickening ' oflocalgovernancewas exactly that : the consolidation of governance through local and central collusion.
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But this argument is challenged by the field of research onlocalgovernance.
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It is this transition from local government tolocalgovernancethat the authors of this book seek to address.
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This requires a foundation of viable, real, developed structures oflocalgovernanceif it is to succeed.
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While democracy has to be embedded into the fabric oflocalgovernance, it is doubtful if chieftaincy can be modernized.
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In developing this argument, they effectively distinguish between local government andlocalgovernance.
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They are uncomfortably situated in a dynamic field of changing relationships between central andlocalgovernanceand between representative and participative democracy.
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The argument here is that in the case of muchlocalgovernance, what was meant to control and condition also liberated and empowered.
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The analysis of the internationalisation oflocalgovernanceis the main focus of his research.
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Over time the communidades became unrepresentative as an institution oflocalgovernanceas the village population grew.
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The democratic approach emphasizes self-governance by residents, through democratic elections and participation, and the inevitable linkage between democracy and goodlocalgovernance.
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