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Local Governance Defined

A way of managing local public affairs characterised by the good performance of local authorities with the participation of local people in partnership with local public and private sector units

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Nigeria: Bauchi PDP - Time to Resurrect the Future

Published October 8, 2008, 2:44 am, AllAfrica.com

Democracy is globally defined as a system of government by the people, for the people and of the people. This was the definition given to the world by a renown American president and first class democrat, Abraham Lincoln.

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Malaybalay projecting higher real property tax collections

Published October 5, 2008, 10:17 am, GMA News

MALAYBALAY — The Malaybalay city government is projecting higher collection of property taxes through an Integrated Revenue Generation System (IRGS), which aims at increasing transparency in computing taxes and freeing it from human discretion.

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Local authority and the awaited development

Published October 4, 2008, 5:31 pm, Yemen Times Online

Before we talk about local authority and the awaited development, we should first indicate that development reflects the community needs for progress and prosperity amid growing poverty and unemployment, plus social inconsistencies and varied resources and savings.

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David Cameron: Speech at Chongqing University in China

Published October 1, 2008, 2:26 pm, Conservative Party

"I am delighted to be here this morning at this great University. The last time a Conservative Leader of the Opposition from my country came to China was thirty years ago.

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Tue Oct 7

High Quality News Decreases Local Participation?: If one were to believe all these surveys that ask people about their media use, then people who are found to be ?in the know? regarding public affairs are usually those who read newspapers and, to a lesser degree, watch the news. People who primarily consume or self-report a preference for entertainment usually score lower on these political knowledge questions (themselves controversial) than news junkies.

Sat Oct 4

Background | The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy: a 15-member commission of luminaries assembled to recommend both public and private measures that would help American communities better meet their information needs

Tue Sep 30

The Ann Arbor Chronicle " Want More Email? Sign Up with the City

Mon Jul 7

ICMA

Thu Jun 5

Political Efficacy and Citizen Participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tue Jun 3

Places 2.0: Interesting essay on the need for local governance and leadership (political, economic, cultural) to become oriented toward bottom-up processes and consensus, rather than top-down.
The world goes to town - Buscar con Google: urban management

Thu May 22

localism : Tags : Daniel Hannan : Politics : Telegraph Blogs: Collection of pieces by the Telegraph on localism and the state in the UK.

Sun Apr 27

Why is There No Partisan Competition in City Council Elections? The Role of Election Law by David Schleicher: Interesting analysis. I've noticed that even in the most 'politica l' open source projects that feature election of leadership (eg. Debian), there is still no partisanship in terms of actual 'parties& #039;.

Wed Apr 16

http://www.eis a.org.za/

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