Lecture slide deck on Local Government. This was for a class on Philippine Politics and Governance that I taught between 2003-2005. http://brianbelen.blogspot.com
Transcript of Local Government
1. L OCALG OVERNMENT
2. OVERVIEW
What do we mean by local government(s)?
What is the rationale behind local governance?
3. REVIEW
Governments are eitherunitaryorfederal
Unitary = Centralized under a national government
Federal = Both an overriding national federal govt and
autonomous local govts
4. REVIEW
The Philippines is a unitary state
Power emanates from a central Executive, Legislature and
Judiciary
Nevertheless, there are still local governments under this
national government
5. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Local governments are subordinate entities to national
governments that enjoy the legal authority to exercise political
power over a fixed territory
6. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Local governments aresubordinate entitiesto national
governments that enjoy the legal authority to exercise political
power over a fixed territory
7. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Local governments are subordinate entities to national
governments that enjoy thelegal authority to exercise political
powerover a fixed territory
8. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Local governments are subordinate entities to national
governments that enjoy the legal authority to exercise political
power over afixed territory
9. CHARACTERISTICS
Tiers of local authority
Different from field organizations
General purpose authorities
Municipal corporations
10. DECENTRALIZATION
Deconcentration
Administrative in nature
Transfer of function to regional/local institutions
Devolution
Political in nature
Transfer of power to regional/local institutions
11. RATIONALE
Debureaucratization
Subsidiarity
Stakeholdership and Participatory Governance
Identity
Accountability
12. RA7160
Decentralization in the Philippines was effected by RA7160
The local government code is the framework for local governance
in the Philippines