Political analysts and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) warn that the landscape following this year’s ...

The call for greater diversity in leadership has grown louder, yet women remain underrepresented in political offices, particularly at the local government level. Despite making up more than half the ...

Over the past year, Uzbekistan has taken critical steps to redefine its local governance system. Last year’s constitutional revision marked a fundamental shift toward decentralization. The ...

Most foreign studies on Chinese microblogs probe patterns of censorship, paying scant attention to how state-society conflicts are neutralized by local governments or how changes are introduced into ...

The 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments marked a historic shift in India’s governance architecture by institutionalising ...

The new role of Western Australia local government inspector Tony Brown includes the ability to send in monitors — as well as ...

The Future Governance Forum has called for a new blueprint to modernise and digitise local government, including a sector-wide workforce plan, de-risking innovation, targeted funding and creating a ...

The African National Congress (ANC) has declared 2026 as the year of decisive action to fix local government and transform ...

With support from the World Bank, 4,550 Union Parishads (UPs), the lowest tier of local government in Bangladesh, have institutionalized a formula-based system for transferring central government ...

The title of a 1961 musical, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, can convey the relentless nature of organisational culture and operations. In local government, the pace of events and artillery of ...