Local governments play a critical role in delivering services to the public. Over recent decades scholars have begun to empirically examine the relationship between the management and performance of ...

The organization of local governments, on the surface a merely technical matter, has fallen victim to a similar pattern of what public choice scholars call “rent-seeking….” ...

THE problem of the definition of local government areas for one purpose or another is a very complex one. The needs of local administretion have long outgrown the existing framework, and for every ...