… With the exception of the periods immediately surrounding the two world wars, local
government expenditures in these countries consistently comprised a 40% or greater proportion of …

… As in other parts of the world, stronger local government is seen as way to improve the
efficiency, equity and effectiveness of public investment, to strengthen citizen trust in the state, and …

… and regions; gathered in Paris, France on 5 May 2004 to create a new unified world
organisation of local governments."98 Among the objectives of the newly created United Cities and …

… perspectives of local agency in the age of the world city. It … This includes a discussion of the
local state as a complex … of the world city as a site of the emergence of the postnational state. …

… capacity of local governments in different regions in the world. Local Government Capacity …
simply define it as `the ability of local government to perform their functions in an effective and …

… of following local government stories and developments in the national and local media. If, …
Generally, the picture since the Second World War has been one of local government losing …

… Before the Second World War there were 95 local authorities operating motor-bus and
motor-coach services, in addition to 67 tramway and 39 trolley-bus undertakings, most of which …

… and its ideas entered the world of practice. We did not offer solutions but we did propose
another way of seeing the world and the role of local government. Researchers offered a …

… the world of local government, let alone the wider public sector. It could be argued that the
word should be used only when prefaced by an adjective that identifies the field within which …

… way a local authority is less likely to err than central government except in the sense that local
government is likely to … ‘The local councillor has to learn that the world in which he acts is a …