Constitutional arrangements such as federalism or unitary states or forms of government such as parliamentary or presidential systems or hybrid governmental systems are made for man and not vice versa ...

There is obviously a substantial consensus in public discourse that the country’s protracted crisis of underdevelopment since independence is partly a function of the inefficacy, ineffectiveness and ...

We study how changes in the composition of Chinese local government debt influenced bank risk taking, credit allocation, and local productivity. Using confidential loan-level data and a ...

The financial sustainability of local governments is a central concern in public finance, entailing the capacity of municipalities and other sub-national entities to manage revenues, expenditures and ...

On Local Government provides local elected officials and community leaders with timely information and resources about the local government revenue system, legislative changes, the state budget and ...

Nothing says small town New England like the town meeting. Derived from English village and Puritan church assemblies, the town meeting/board of selectmen structure is the oldest form of civic ...

It’s hard to believe it was 50 years ago that the Greater Anchorage Area Borough and City of Anchorage unified into the Municipality of Anchorage. We were members of the 1975 Charter Commission. How ...