Under appropriate conditions, all forms of decentralization can play important roles in broadening participation in political, economic and social activities in developing countries. Where it works effectively, decentralization helps alleviate the bottlenecks in decision making that are often...

The most of the community-based development activities are carried out through agencies of the central government and provincial councils in the Sri Lanka. Theoretically, the local authorities are considered to be the third branch in the administrative structure. If the third branch...

The post-war era is witnessing a distinct shift in the attitude and mechanism of administrative control, particularly in the developed countries. The struggle of the local authorities against negative contents of control has met with success in several liberal democracies. Literature survey of...

The US failed of the rebalance strategy with Asian features. China has invited Asian countries to join Beijing in framing a security governance model with Asian features. China's formal invite to a neighbour to pursue a regional security doctrine that is led by Beijing. President Xi Jinping...

This Article presents a range of definitions and descriptions from recent sources and elaborates on the concept of decentralization, again drawn from secondary sources. Thus it elaborates on decentralization in the context of alternative services delivery an area of increasing application...

The constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, which was introduced by the late former President in 1978, which has been in existence henceforth, has been amended eighteen times. The rudimentary objective of the eighteenth amendment is to accord supreme power and authority...