Critical Review of Local Government Systems in Pakistan:
Keywords:
Local Governments, Decentralization, Military Dominance, Politics of Patronage, Etc.Abstract
Abstract:
The poor delivery of decentralization, as per various studies conducted
in developing countries, is caused due to the multifarious factors
including insufficient framework of local government, coupled with
unsatisfactory implementation and the functioning of local government
by vested interests of a particular class. Consequently, the casualties at
the hands of ineffective decentralization emerge in the form of fragile
democracy at the grassroots level and the absence of vibrant mechanism
for the service delivery at local level. Concerning decentralization with
regard to Pakistan, the case has been that decentralization was never
meant to devolve power and authority to the grassroots but to achieve
some other designs. Foremost among them are; to augment the role of
civil and military bureaucracy to further strengthen central government
through marginalization of mainstream political parties and; to sift
newly emerging politicians from local councils to provide a link between
the local leadership and the governments established by military
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