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Author Smith, Diane (Diane Evelyn)

Title Jurisdictional devolution : towards an effective model for indigenous community self-determination / D.E. Smith
Published Canberra : Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, 2002

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 W'PONDS  323.119915 Smi/Jdt  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 36 pages ; 25 cm
Series Discussion paper / Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, 1036-1774 ; no. 233/2002
Discussion paper (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 233/2002
Summary 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
Discussion paper (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) no:233/2002 1036-1774
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Services for -- Management.
Decentralization in government -- United States.
Decentralization in government -- Australia.
Public welfare administration -- Australia.
Public welfare administration -- United States.
Indians of North America -- Public welfare.
Aboriginal Australians -- Services for -- Administration.
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Services for.
Author Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.
ISBN 0731556089