Forum of Federations Handbook on Local Government in Federal Systems

Nico Steytler is Professor of Public Law and the South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development at the Dullah Omar Institute of Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Nico Steytler).- Chapter 2. Argentina (Penelope Vaca Avila).- Chapter 3. Australia (Graham Sansom and Su Fei Tan).- Chapter 4. Austria (Karl Kössler).- Chapter 5. Brazil (Sol Garson and Kleber Castro).- Chapter 6. Canada ( Enid Slack and Zachary Taylor).- Chapter 7. Ethiopia (Zemelak Ayele).- Chapter 8. Germany (Henrik Scheller).-Chapter 9. India (Niranjan Sahoo).- Chapter 10. Italy (Elisabeth Alber, Alice Valdesalici, Greta Klotz).- Chapter 11. Mexico ( Monica Unda–Gutierrez and Alejandra Reyes).- Chapter 12. Nepal (Khim Lal Devkota and Gopi Krishna Khanal).- Chapter 13. Nigeria (Rotimi Suberu).- Chapter 14: South Africa (Jaap de Visser).- Chapter 15. Spain  (Francisco Velasco Caballero).-Chapter 16. Switzerland (Andreas Ladner).- Chapter 17. United States of America (Meryl Chertoff).- Chapter 18. Concluding Remarks (Nico Steytler).