Subject(s): Ecology -- Local government -- Decentralization -- Social, economic, geographic, legal, political, administrative aspects of local governance -- Decentralised development -- Equitable distribution -- Decentralized development through cooperation -- State government -- Federal government -- Examples of local governance from different parts of the world -- Theory of areal distribution of power and politics -- Theory of local governmental council -- Prima donna role, size, election, term, organisation of the council , Political processing , meetings of the council, -- Committee system -- Classification of committees -- numerosity of committees -- Composition of committees -- Theory of local executive -- Diversity and uniformity -- Theory of local finance -- Ecology of local governance -- Local revenue and expenditure -- Grants in aid -- loans and bonds -- reserves and investment -- Fiscal management -- Budgeting auditing -- Local bureaucracy -- Local civil service -- local elite bureaucracy -- democracy -- Theory of autonomy : control continuum -- Local autonomy -- Legislative, judicial , administrative control