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Local Government System in Sri Lanka: A Historical Overview

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For the purpose of this chapter the term “local government” embraces all types of popularly elected local level governmental authorities dealing with matters concerning the inhabitants living within the areas delineated to them, whose interests cannot be served directly by the central government.

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  1. Department of Political Science, University of Peradeniya, 10390, Peradeniya, Central Province, Sri Lanka

    A. M. Navaratna-Bandara

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  1. International University of Japan , Uonumashi, Niigata, Niigata, Japan

    N.S. Cooray

  2. Faculty of Economics, University of Colombo , Colombo, Sri Lanka

    Sirimal Abeyratne

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Navaratna-Bandara, A.M. (2017). Local Government System in Sri Lanka: A Historical Overview. In: Cooray, N., Abeyratne, S. (eds) Decentralization and Development of Sri Lanka Within a Unitary State. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4259-1_2

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