While provincial tax revenues have increased during 6MFY25, there is stubborn resistance to sharing revenues with local govts ...

There seems to be a consensus among the three leading political parties on resisting the democratic empowerment of local governments ... bottom-up democratic state structure can only be built ...

However, as the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) revealed before Christmas, Lancashire County Council’s leadership ...

There is a recurring debate in California about the effectiveness of regional governments when compared to the existing local ...

The letter reads: "The current two-tier structure of local government in Surrey, comprising 12 sovereign local authorities, is fragmented and in a number of areas inefficient which inevitably ...

Tackling radicalization among young people is a complex issue in which government authorities may choose to apply legal measures. Ph.D. student Nina van Capelleveen examined the risks such legal ...

Derbyshire’s Conservative Group has launched a survey in its bid to preserve the county’s boundaries under plans that could ...

district and local municipalities, and places the legislative and executive authority of each municipality in its municipal council, which consists of democratically elected representatives. This ...

Sajid Hussain, leader of the United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP), has issued a stern critique of the ...

These provisions squarely position state Houses of Assembly as the creators of local governments as well as the authority that can assign functions to them, and not the Federal Government (or even ...

policymakers have been dealing with the dangers posed by a structure on which that wave relied — the so-called local government financing vehicles (LGFVs). Now, economists see potential for ...

China’s central government urged local authorities to offer handouts to people struggling with the cost of living, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing a notice from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.