A book by Charles R. Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Raúl A. Ponce Rodríguez Scholars and practitioners have long hailed fiscal federalism as a critical tool for improving government services, but it has not always lived […]
Since they were elected for the first time in 2005, Afghanistan’s Provincial Councils (PCs) have been suffering from ill-defined and, its members think, too little authority. Those elected to the councils ten years ago found […]
Proponents of devolution suggest that directly elected local governments are more responsive and more accountable to the people, and therefore, that devolution and having directly elected local officials should improve local public services. In contrast, […]
Copyright 2015-2021. Local Public Sector Initiative / Local Public Sector Alliance.