Local governance, local autonomy and local democracy: towards a comparative framework

A Relational Framework to Explain the Town’s Local Actors Decision-Making Mechanism

The life of Towns has become more important and greatly emphasized in recent years and this heralds the arrival of a new era when this type of settlements is introduced as major living and investment capacities. Therefore, it is necessary to study the different aspects of towns in order to plan and manage their development and answer the question about different decision-making mechanism in the...

STANFORD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Working Paper No. 317 Rural Taxation and Local Governance Reform in China’s Economic Transition: Origins, Policy Responses and Remaining Challenges

This paper examines the historical evolution of China's rural taxation system and provides an initial assessment of the ongoing rural tax reform. It is argued that the issue of rural taxation and local governance in China is one typical challenge arising from the inherent tension between an increasingly liberalized economic system and a still centralized political system. Though the rural tax r...

D R a F T towards a Separation of Local Autonomy and Local Democracy

The Governance of National Community Health Worker Programmes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Empirically Based Framework of Governance Principles, Purposes and Tasks

Background National community health worker (CHW) programmes are increasingly regarded as an integral component of primary healthcare (PHC) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). At the interface of the formal health system and communities, CHW programmes evolve in context specific ways, with unique cadres and a variety of vertical and horizontal relationships. These programmes need...

Local economic development via urbanism lever: the case of Lebanon

The present paper analyses local economic development issues through the prism of urban governance theories and models. From theoretical corpora to empirical LED case studies, we emphasise, through the anarchy paradigm, the privatisation tendencies of urban planning and development projects in local territories. We have taken an interest in comparative analysis of principal concepts and ...