| Local Government in Federal Systems |
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| Caroline Andrew / Dalbir Singh / Horst Risse
/ Suresh Keswani
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The role of local government is crucial for federal systems. This
conference will try to address three of the most relevant questions in
that respect. First, it is necessary to highlight the role of local
government as an interface between the civil society and the state. Here
democracy begins and if democratic structures are not established on
that level they will be missed elsewhere too. Then, local government has
to be integrated into the complex structure of a federal system. Its
relationship to the upper levels of government has to be defined and it
is necessary to establish rules and procedures for its participation in
the political decision making process. A third set of problems arises
from the growing trend to urbanization. Metropolitan areas, including
megacities where local government means responsibility for 10 or 20
million citizens are gaining importance globally in the decades to come.
Their governance in federal systems will be another issue federations
will have to cope with in the future.
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