Subject(s): Citizens' associations -- Decision Making Process -- Population -- Jerusalem. -- Neighbourhood government -- Organizational and structural factors influencing decentralization of authority -- Hetrogeneity of products and services, Self-restraint at the managerial Apex, power resolution -- Neighbourhood self management organization: Background, vision, ideology and organizational domain -- Human and social service -- Voluntary nonprofit organizations in providing social and communal services -- Neighborhood self-management organizations : an international perspective -- Community council in Scotland, England, Wales, Netherlands, Italy, Nordic Countries, Canada, United State, Japan, New Zealand -- Community council as a merger of two neighbourhood organizations: neighbourhood self management and community centres -- Territorial growth, population size, demographic and social characteristics , economic characteristics : Jerusalem -- Community council in Jerusalem , 1992-1997 -- Ideological, structural and organizational dilemmas of neighbourhood organizations in international perspective -- Legal status and political legitimation -- External funding source -- Public legitimation -- Nonprofit organization or bureaucracy -- Representative democracy and participatory democracy -- Vision and reality in the community council -- Metropolitan area -- Community council