The conception of a Local Government Development Model represents both a novel and an interesting idea and one which I intend to explore as the fundamental research question for my master’s thesis. Though the discourse on local governance associates local government with development, especially in theory than in practice, the idea that local government could be the engine of development has not entered the fray. The aim of my research is to expand the notion of a bottom up approach to development by placing local government at the centre of analysis. As a consequence, this presentation is a first step towards formulating a theory of local government development model (LGDM) and will be concerned with the essential values that give sufficiency to this position.

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