1. Governance, Local Government and Civil Society
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

7. 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

8. Is This a Local Government Problem?

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

10. Strengthening Of Panchayati Raj In India
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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

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

15. 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

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

17. 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.

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

19. The Stranger
Albert Camus ( ) 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

20. 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.

21. Discussion of Books