Examines a United States initiative that involves devolution of federal welfare programs to Tribal authorities and a similar proposal for devolution of welfare in a central Australian Indigenous community; discusses how lessons learned from these initiatives can be developed into a framework for jurisdictional devolution that provides strategies for the practical implementation of self-determination; regionally-dispersed, layered community governance; connected localism
Analysis
Self regulation
Administrative decentralisation
Jurisdiction
Federal issue
State issue
Aboriginal communities
Electronic resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-36)
Notes
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet