ادارة الحكم المحلي في ظل الفيدرالية في السودان

Abstract

This dissertation tackles - in a describtive rather than prescribtive method – some aspects of local government adminstration in federal Sudan, through entertaining a conceptual thesis on both federalism and decentralization, and their collateral effect on local government in general. It tends also to investigate how matching current reforms in legislation, structure, powers, and resources are with however standard dimensions which good adminstration of a harmonious local government in a federation may construe. Furthermore, the study does examine ways and means of practice and coordination, the workability of election and selection system, and mechanisms of central interference and support and their impact on the anticipated contribution of local government to national integration, participation, even services and development. The study consists of an introductory note on essentials, four chapters, and a conclusion. A conceptual review was given in the first chapter where the major terms (federalism, decentralization, and Local government) has been thoroughly treated. In chapter two, a full describtive account about the case was developed as regards genesis, history, geography, social values, type of decentralization, and its objective priorities. The third chapter is entirely devoted to trace change in the adminstrative process – as far as it really exists – in the two main tiers of local government (the state and the Locality). That diagnostic account is primarily concerned with regulatory arrangements,composition, skeleton, authority, functions, and relations. A comparative approach was partially adapted in regard to similar contemporary experiences along with Local government legacy in Sudan. As findings, however, the study tends, more or less, to ascertain the primary propositions that theory and practice has rendered several shortcomings, due to a blend of political, social, and economic reasons, in addition to inadequate field studies and haste reformatory experimentation