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PIA 2528

PIA 2528. Governance, Local Government and Civil Society. Debate about Democracy and Governance. Fareed Zakaria VIDEO. Decentralization and Foreign Aid- Often a Target of Democracy and Governance Programs. Has local Government Failed? The Basis for Measurement.

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PIA 2528

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  1. PIA 2528 Governance, Local Government and Civil Society

  2. Debate about Democracy and Governance • Fareed Zakaria • VIDEO

  3. Decentralization and Foreign Aid- Often a Target of Democracy and Governance Programs

  4. Has local Government Failed?The Basis for Measurement • Implementation and Administrative Problems • Skills Shortages • Absence of Revenue • The Need for Institutional Training • Presence of International Donors

  5. Implementation: Local Governance Often seems like a Rube Goldberg Cartoon

  6. Has local Government Failed? • Failure to make a Needs Assessment • Bridging Training vs. the Synthetic Mode of Thought (Routines and Rote Skills) • Local Government- Urban vs. Rural Needs • Functions as Local State

  7. Is This a Local Government Problem?

  8. Local Government and Development? • How Developmental Is Local Government? • We Need Assess Local Government Comparatively in light of Case Histories Readings.

  9. Article 243 (G) of the Constitution necessitates the State Legislatures to empower Panchayats with such powers and authority as may be necessary to enable them to function as institutions of Local Government What is the Problem with this Model? Strengthening Of Panchayati Raj In India

  10. Decentralization Issues 1. Democracy and decentralization 2. Critiques of indirect Democracy 3. Decentralization and NGOs (Are NGOs dangerous?) 4. Decentralization and ethnic and regional conflict- the dangers of decentralization

  11. Decentralization Issues 5. The dichotomy: Communal/municipal models vs. urban/rural governance: towns and counties. Problem of urban bias 6. Decentralization as a failure-Issues: • a. financial limitations • b. local government staff: "bush postings.“ • c. community distrust

  12. Specialized Developmental Functions • Planning and Land Use Patterns • Issues- Ownership and distribution. • Land- its use and access to water. At the core of grass roots development in the rural areas

  13. Regional Planning for agriculture, forestry, recreation , land use, waterfowl, ungulates and sport fish capability (Canada)

  14. Geographical Patterns: The Institutional Legacy (Readings) • Break into Regional Groups for Fifteen Minutes • Try to DIAGRAM the colonial structure for your part of the world and Discuss Colonialism and Illiberalism? • Identify FOUR regional patterns of Institutionalized Governance, Local Governance and Civil Society- Identify the (reading) source of pattern

  15. Summary Discussion • What if anything have we learned about Governance, Local Government and Civil Society?

  16. Meet the Authors • John le Carré is the nom de plume of David John Moore Cornwell, who was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School, at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages.

  17. Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov was born on May 15, 1891 in Kiev, at that time in the Russian Empire. A favorite of Stalin, despite his critical writing, Bulgakov died on March 10, 1940

  18. The Stranger Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957

  19. The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende Llona(born in Lima, Peru, on 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. First cousin (once removed) of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973.

  20. Discussion of Books

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