Local Government and Fiscal Autonomy for Local Government In Nigeria

Rethinking Local Government Administration in Nigeria

This paper examines local governm shift in its discussion and findings. The paper as its objectives tackled the concept of local government, evolution of local government administration in Nigeria, the constitution and local government administration in Nigeria and the controversy over local government autonomy in Nigeria. To achieve this, the paper adopted the use of secondary sources and data...

State and Local Government Choices in Fiscal Redistribution

Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez–Vazquez, & Sally Wallace The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, 30303 Abstract Economists have devoted relatively little attention to explaining why some state and local governments choose more progressive fiscal instruments than others. This paper provides an empirical model to identify the determinants of income redistribution...

Fiscal Centralization of Indiana State and Local Government

Fiscal Federalism in the UK: How Free is Local Government?

points z z The UK system of government is one of the most centralized in the developed world. As a result, local governments have very few powers when it comes to tax regulation, while their policy choices are constrained by tightly controlled expenditure mandates. z z Nevertheless, there is evidence that local party control does matter. A switch from Conservative to Labour Party control usuall...

E-Government For Small Local Government Organizations

The Italian National Centre for Information Technology in Public Administration (CNIPA) introduced the concept of Local Alliances for Innovation (ALI) as the tool for the inclusion of small municipalities in the spread of E-Government in Italy. Based on the CNIPA’s definition, the paper discusses the concept of ALI as an organizational model that can be resorted to in order to reduce the admini...