Local governance in Switzerland: Adequate municipal autonomy cumintergovernmental cooperation?

Debela, Ketema Wakjira

doi:10.1080/23311886.2020.1763889

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“…The main purpose of autonomy is to implement the legally transferred rights to the autonomous region, protect the personal freedom of citizens (Alibegović & Slijepčević, 2018). In federalism, the legal rights of autonomous units are clearly defined, and they have the autonomy to practice the legislative, executive, and judicial, including law-making, planning, and budgeting, policymaking, and planning implementation, and citizen participation (Debela, 2020). Indonesia passed the Decentralization Act in 1974 (Hidayat, 2017).…”

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Federalism Practice in Nepal: Does it Move in the Expected Course?

Acharya¹

2021

Dhaulagiri

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This study examines how far Nepal's current practice of federalism has progressed toward people's aspirations, based on power separation, public trust, power equalization, and intergovernmental relationships. Primary data was collected on purposively 72 key informant interviews, which were then triangulated by the KII response. Finding demonstrates that functions and authorities were devolved in accordance with the principle of separation of powers at all three levels of government. However, the constitutional provisions were completely disregarded, and power was centralized by an unholy alliance of political leadership and bureaucracy. Second, people expected the democratic government to take a welfare approach to ensure greater pluralism and alliances, but special interests of politicians for their election constituencies, as well as identity-based issues, caused havoc in the effective operation of federalism. Third, the provision of three tiers of power-sharing mechanisms was based on coexistence, cooperation, and coordination. However, the federal government appears hesitant to support sub-national governments due to the centralized mindset of bureaucrats and politicians. Fourth, the constitution has focused on intergovernmental relations, but such relationships fail due to imbalances in vertical and horizontal relationships, fiscal dependency, and the bureaucracy's power-seeking attitude. In the end, two key questions for the discussions are raised. First, the institutionalization of accountability at the local level is it a true commitment, or is it merely an ivory tower? Second, the provision of autonomy has been used as a means of transformation or simply as a bargaining tool at the local level?

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Federalism Practice in Nepal: Does it Move in the Expected Course?

Acharya¹

2021

Dhaulagiri

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“…Cantons determine their own objectives and strategies for territorial development within the national regional policy framework (Swiss Regional Development Online Platform, 2020). Cantons also provide a formal institutional framework that allows and encourages intercommunal cooperation for the efficient and reliable provision of public services and the discussion of shared concerns across the borders of different communes (Debela, 2020).…”

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Globalisation and local economic development: Place-based and bottom-up public policies in Switzerland and Mexico

Palavicini-Corona¹

2021

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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The XXI century has reached the end of its first 20 years. Along the years, it has posed complex challenges to economists and economic geographers. For example, the results of elections and consultations in different countries have shown a strong sympathy with political positions that question the benefits of free international flows of goods, services, labour and capital. By the same token, some academics argue that despite international economics theory clearly acknowledges that free trade causes winners and losers, the expected higher gains have not been effectively used to compensate the losers. This article explores the main challenges of international economic integration in sub-national territories in Switzerland and Mexico to better understand the importance of delivering relevant and competent public policies based on territorial specificity.

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“…553 Aleinikoff, 2020, p. 52 554 Orgad, 2020, p.78. 555 Motomura 2016, Oomen et al 2021b, p.2 556 Keuffner, 2017Debela, 2020. this scholarship, many urban citizenship practices of local governments would qualify as local government reform, as they include characteristics of the latter, including but not limited to (i) institutional changes in the local government (such as the establishment of social cohesion, integration, or human rights departments), (ii) institution-wide cross-sectional policies (such as the mainstreaming of human rights, social cohesion or equality principles throughout the local government), (iii) the "intensification of intermunicipal cooperation" and (iv) changes towards more participatory and directdemocratic governance (such as trying to give non-national residents the right to vote) 557 . 558 Again according to this scholarship, autonomy is a necessary factor in enabling local government reform.…”

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feel loved and taken care of after the death of my mother, for loving us unconditionally, and for believing us when we were most in need. I would like to thank my brother Emre Can Durmuş, my love for whom expands and flows out of me, for being my old friend and closest ally, for having gone through the same things together, for knowing and loving me, and for occasionally calling me "Abla". I am so proud of you. I would like to thank my grandparents Ali İhsan and Nurten Durmuş for creating a cosy, warm home in which we always felt welcome and at home. I would also like to thank them for their years of efforts on raising us (even when we were insolent little brats), for teaching us good principles, the love for justice, country, family, crosswords and backgammon. I would like to thank my grandparents Amine, Hikmet and Nilgün for their love, incredibly generous support, and for their acceptance. I would like to thank my aunts and uncles, especially my aunt Selma for her ever-reflexivity and her overflowing love for us and my aunt Nurgül for infecting me with a love for cats, knowledge, and creativity, and for being my childhood idol. I would like to thank Nurşen Abla for cleaning me and my brother's apartment when otherwise we would have been swimming in mess. I would like to thank all of my family for being there for us, yesterday, today, and as I trust, in the future, and for accepting my Dutch partner as one of their own. I would also like to thank from the bottom of my heart my new Dutch family, Andrea Willmsen, Hans Damink, Paul van den Engel, Rene Jager, Vivian van den Engel. How lucky I am to meet such wonderful people and count them as my family! I would like to thank all the amazing professors, teachers, mentors and coaches I have ever had, who cared for me, nurtured my nerdy nature and opened up excellent new opportunities for me:

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Local governance in Switzerland: Adequate municipal autonomy cumintergovernmental cooperation?

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Federalism Practice in Nepal: Does it Move in the Expected Course?

Federalism Practice in Nepal: Does it Move in the Expected Course?

Globalisation and local economic development: Place-based and bottom-up public policies in Switzerland and Mexico

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