Introduction to Local Government
Overview
Objectives:
The main objective of this course is to generate awareness among the students about the significance of Local Government and basic dynamics of the system. It will provide to the students the parameters and analytical framework for study of any individual system or comparison among various systems of local governments.
Contents of the Course:
1. Meaning, Nature and Scope of Local Government;
2. Difference between Local Government and Local self-government;
3. Approaches to the study of Local Government;
4. Central-Local Government Relations and its implications on the performance of Local Institutions;
5. Kinds of transfer of powers at the local level: Decentralization, Deconcentration and Devolution;
6. Local Government Finance;
7. Problems of Local Government in the Developing Countries.
Credit hours/ Marks:- 03 Cr. Hrs.
1. A.H. Marshall, Local Government Finance, The Hague, International Union of Local Authorities, 1969.
2. Daniel Norman Chester, Central and Local Government: Financial and Administrative Relations, London, Macmillan, 1951.
3. Harold F. Alderfer, Local Government in Developing Countries, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1964.
4. Henry Maddick, Democracy, Decentralization and Development, London, Asia Publishing House, 1963.
5. Hugh Russell Tinker, The Foundations of Local Self Government in India, Pakistan and Burma, London, The Athlone Press, 1954.
6. J.A.G. Griffith, Central Departments and Local Authorities, London, Allen & Unwin, 1966.
7. J.A.G. Griffith, Local Authorities and Central Control, London, Chichester, 1974.
8. M.A. Muttalib and Muhammad Akbar Ali Khan, Theory of Local Government, New Delhi, Sterling Publishers, 1983.
9. Masudul Hasan, History of Local Government in Pakistan, Islamabad, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, 1984.
10. Ursula K. Hicks, Development from Below: Local Government and Finance in Developing Countries of the Commonwealth, London, Oxford, Clarendon, 1961.