Local Government System: between Requirements of Development and Dangers of Division

Abstract

Through this study, we will try to show the reader that there is a huge difference between the term of local governance and local administration, because many experts in this matter often confusing the two terms. Since the term local government is a system followed in federal countries where the local units there are more independent, it’s like a state and each state has own system, laws and even its own constitution, This is, of course, the opposite of the local administration system, which is based on a type of decentralization in specific areas, while the central authorities remain the final decision-maker. Because unified laws and a single constitution ensure this harmony between central and local authorities, and from this approach a new problem has emerged in the tendency of some countries to imitate the American federal model without taking into their account the dangers of implementation, which has led in different cases to failure and may be it lead to conflict and division.