A New Creation or an Image and Likeness? The Maltese Experience of Establishing Local Government in a Centralized Micro-State |
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Authors: | Pirotta Godfrey A |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Public Policy, University of Malta, Malta |
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Abstract: | Small states vary among themselves as to whether they have significant local government systems. While government in Malta has been historically a very centralized activity, a network of local councils was established in the early 1990s as part of a more general public sector reform movement. Unlike some other small states, Malta has strong political parties, and they have played an important part in the affairs of the local councils as well as of the central government. Their establishment has therefore done little to reduce political polarization or promote decentralist values, as was hoped when they were first established. |
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Keywords: | Malta local government decentralization political parties |
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