Contents: Preface -- Part I Frameworks for central-local government relations -- 1. Frameworks for central-local government relations and fiscal sustainability / Peter J. Morgan and Long Q. Trinh -- 2. Looking beyond conventional intergovernmental fiscal frameworks: principles, realities, and neglected issues / Paul Smoke -- Part II Mechanisms for Promoting Fiscal Sustainability at the Local Government Level -- 3. Federalism, fiscal space, and public investment spending: do fiscal rules impose hard budget constraints? / Pinaki Chakraborty -- 4. Fiscal equalization schemes and subcentral government borrowing / Salvador Barrios and Diego Martínez-López -- 5. How well do subnational borrowing regulations work? / Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Violeta Vulovic -- Part III Country studies of central-local government relations -- 6. The fiscal risk of local government revenue in the People's Republic of China / Ziying Fan and Guanghua Wan -- 7. Key issues of central and local government finance in the People's Republic of China / Qichun Zhang and Shufang Li -- 8. Government decentralization program in Indonesia / Anwar Nasution -- 9. Case study of central and local government finance in Japan / Shun-ichiro Bessho -- 10. Fiscal decentralization and local budget deficits in Viet Nam: an empirical analysis / Peter J. Morgan and Long Q. Trinh -- Part IV Behavioral implications of central-local government relations -- 11. Debt dynamics, fiscal deficit, and stability in government borrowing in India: a dynamic panel analysis / Panchanan Das -- 12. Forms of government decentralization and institutional quality: evidence from a large sample of nations / Rajeev K. Goel and James W. Saunoris -- Index.
Local governance and decentralization is an ever growing topic in politics and public administration studies. This is better achieved by a good relationship between the local and central governments. A coordinated relation between these two important institutions provides prosperity and stability for a country.This paper aims to describe the notion of central-local governments relations, based on decentralization. It begins by briefly presenting the theoretical aspects of the abovementioned concepts of central-local relations and decentralization.The paper first gives an overview of these concepts in the Republic of Albania, by describing the situation in different periods and different regimes. The aim of this study is to show how the central-local relations have evolved during the years in Albania and how much this relation has been concerned with decentralization and local self-governance.This study provides different competencies and budget capacity of both levels ofgovernment and gives examples from different developed countries in order to show how the system works in reality in Albania and how they should function in order to be more effective and efficient.Finally this study presents some of the problems that the local government institutions are facing in Albania, with the main issue being corruption in all levels of public administration and possible solutions for these problems will be suggested.Keywords: Albania, Central-local relations, Decentralization, Local government,Corruption
This book examines the connection between central-local government relations and the transition of contemporary China, the urbanization process and social development. Based on empirical investigations and theoretical research, it argues that this is the key to understanding the transition of central-local government relations from the overall fiscal rationing system in the 1980s and the tax distribution system in the 1990s. The former system provided the incentive for local government to "set up a number of enterprises" and resulted in rapid local industrialization, while the latter system enabled the local governments to move from "operating the enterprises" to "operating the land and cities". The book analyzes two aspects of the profound impact of the change in central-local government relations on the behavior of local governments: land quota acquisition and urbanization, thus providing valuable insights into the economic and social development of contemporary China
1. Introduction : understanding central-local relations in China / John A. Donaldson -- 2. Central-provincial power relations in the fiscal realm of China, 1980-2014 / S. Philip Hsu -- 3.China's perforated investment control, 1978-2013 / Yukyung Yeo -- 4. China's regional development policy / Long Yang -- 5. China's administrative hierarchy : the balance of power and winners and losers within China's levels of government / John A. Donaldson -- 6. Implementation : changing norms, issue-variance, and unending tugs of war / Jae Ho Chung -- 7. China's culture policy and the central-local relationship / Tse-Kang Leng -- 8. Recentralization in China's social welfare regime / Xufeng Zhu -- 9. Central-local interactions in foreign affairs / Mingjiang Li.
Dissertation (D.P.A.)--National Institute of Development Administration, 2015 ; This study has the following four objectives: 1) to examine the nature of intervention on local government organization through public policy; 2) to determine the implications of central government intervention with regards to contents and execution of the local government development plans; 3) to investigate the patterns of local government adaptation in response to central government intervention; and 4) to study local government organizations' problems and obstacles, and identify recommendations that may be useful to management of municipalities' affairs. The time frame of this research is from the fiscal year 2011-2013. The researcher focuses on two forms of qualitative research: 1) documentary research such as theoretical concepts, legal framework, and academic documents in foreign countries and Thailand and 2) in-depth interviews of elected administrators such as mayors, chief government officials and municipal assembly members, including the president of the municipal assembly. The researcher's findings lead to the following response to the four objectives. ; Regarding the first objective, the research reveals that the public policy during Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's premiership is consistent with the directive principles of fundamental state policies in accordance to the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand. Despite the fact that such public policy is beneficial to the state, official mandates issued by the Ministry of Interior and the Department of Local Administration to local government organizations can be considered a drawback and regarded as intervention on the administrative rights of local government organizations. Such practice contradicts the principle of local governance, which states "local administrative organizations should have the liberty to manage its own region in accordance to the law," and goes against various legal documents such as the State Administration Act, B. E. 2534, the Municipality ...
This paper represents a model attempt to shed light on institutional relations between two levels of power in the Republic of Kosovo. The wide range of legal acts concerned with the regulation of the reports between Central and Legal Government in Kosovo, comprise a legal system containing complex set of rules which define the share of power, competences and the authority of these two levels. As such, this paper is an attempt to investigate and analyze the complex set of legal and institutional mechanisms referring to relations between these two levels of power.
The paper follows a set of approaches and methods such as comparative and analytical method, descriptive, empirical and historical method in order to cover as much aspects and elements of the relations between two levels of power in Kosovo.
Key words: Authorizations, Central Govenrment, Consitution, Competences, Decentralization, Local Government, Local governance, Power.
Pub. also as Studies in history, economics and public law, vol. 9, no. 1. ; Academic record. ; Thesis (PH. D.)--Columbia university. ; Bibliography: p. 279-287. ; Mode of access: Internet.