Table of Contents
| Editorial | PDF Background Paper (Amis) |
| Graham Sansom |
Background Papers
| Some reflections on the Conference Background Paper: 'Improving Local Government: the Commonwealth Vision' | |
| Joe Stern |
| A Decade of improvement for local government | |
| Susan Rhodes |
| Bridging the divide: Making research matter to local government | |
| Mark Redwood |
Research and Evaluation
| Participatory action research, strengthening institutional capacity and governance: Confronting the urban challenge in Kampala | |
| Shuaib Lwasa, Gilbert Kadilo |
| A local government authority leading action research: Impacts and replicability | |
| Neranjana Gunetilleke |
| Village Forums or Development Councils: People’s participation in decision-making in rural West Bengal, India | |
| Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Bhaskar Chakrabarti, Suman Nath |
| The Political-administrative interface in South African municipalities: Assessing the quality of local democracies | |
| Jaap de Visser |
| Modernising Local Government by Fragmentation: Lessons From The Portmore Municipal Experiment - Jamaica | |
| Eris D. Schoburgh |
| New Professionals on tap? The human resource challenges in developing a new generation of municipal and local government managers in Nova Scotia | |
| Andrew Molloy, David Johnson |
Commentary
| Democratic local governance in the Southern African Development Community region: Some emerging issues and challenges | |
| Bornwell Chikulo |
| New directions in New Zealand local government | |
| Peter McKinlay |
| The Commonwealth Local Government Pacific Project: Seeking ‘most significant change’ | |
| Graham Hassall |
Conference Notes
| Conference Notes | |
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ISSN 1836-0394