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Local Governance in the Caribbean

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Local Government; Local Governance; Decentralization

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Whereas the concept “local government” is normally well understood as a subnational level of government which has jurisdiction over the administration of a limited range of public or state functions, within a specified geographical area, local governance, from a Caribbean perspective, proposes to be those processes and the institutional framework within a locality or community through which power and authority are exercised, in influencing policy, decision-making and implementation regarding the conduct of local public affairs, and the direction of local development.

Table 1 Status of local governance systems in the Caribbean
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  1. Department of Political Science, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

    Bishnu Ragoonath

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Ragoonath, B. (2016). Local Governance in the Caribbean. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2987-1

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