Governance of an Algerian local rural community: Case of the municipality of Barbacha

Abstract

This article is based on a personal experience of governance of a rural municipality that allowed us to measure the gap between our initial ambitions (or illusions) and the reality on the ground. Believing that it is enough that a CPA and its executive are motivated by a sincere desire to serve its commune well that the rest of the actors of its governance will go in synergy in the same direction. In the facts that we have given, guided by our theoretical and methodological investigations, we have concluded that the reality is different: it is much more the informal mechanisms which govern the governance of a local authority and which, consequently, constitute the causes of its complexity and its failures.