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about "Local government". Department of Local and Regional Democracy and Good Governance—Council of Europe The Congress in brief Rural local self-government...

Democracy (from Ancient Greek: δημοκρατία, romanized: dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is...

The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) is an initiative in the United Kingdom funded by the BBC. The scheme pays for the employment of journalists...

2005-04-09. Retrieved 2005-04-11. Local egov national project directgov.gov.uk UK local e-democracy national project UK local democracy project launch v t e...

The “European Local Democracy Week” is an annual event with national and local events organised by participating local authorities in all Council of Europe...

from local to global), but may also be applied to other constructs like workplaces, families, community associations, and so forth. Types of democracy can...

Participatory democracy, participant democracy, participative democracy, or semi-direct democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate...

Association for Local Democracy, is a membership based organisation established in 1999 at the initiative of the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional...

research grants; a local democracy pilot project in Jharkhand initiated to create and disseminate inspiring stories of local democracy in practice and offering...

to 1991. In the late 1990s, Sewell founded the group Citizens for Local Democracy to fight the plans of the provincial Mike Harris government to abolish...

required all local authorities to review their executive arrangements again and consider the case for an elected mayor. The Local Democracy, Economic Development...

support charitable objects. The Local Government Act 1972 specifically preserved freemen's rights. The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction...

institution founded in 1996 as an initiative of the Foundation in Support of Local Democracy. It was a non-state and non-profit school of higher education. The...

Company Affairs, New Delhi, 1993. T M Thomas Issac with Richard Franke : Local democracy and development – Peoples Campaign for decentralized planning in Kerala...

community, are divided into electoral wards, which are decided by the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales. Some wards may be representated...

create combined authorities by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. The Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 gave...

states of the Council of Europe. Its role is to promote local and regional democracy, improve local and regional governance and strengthen authorities' self-government...

Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies...

Stockyards, p. 75. Robert A. Slayton, Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1986) p. 16 "The Birth of the...

democracy in China has existed in Chinese politics since the 19th century. Chinese scholars, thinkers, and policy-makers have debated about democracy...