The French 'Napoleonic' Local Government And The French Homogeneous Model

France Homogeneous model:

France is a republic, unitary state and traditionally seen as centralised where authority comes from its capital Paris, the relationship between governments tiers the centre and periphery is very complex. The local government in France controlled from its capital in Paris. The French ‘Napoleonic’ local government model has been adopted in many other European countries, and can be seen as very influential with local governments systems. The Decentralisation Act of 1982, very influential to the French system this enabled enormous amount of decentralisation reforms been applied in France to strengthen the local governments autonomy. This Act gave local authorities new responsibilities and more power on public service delivery. According to (Denters and Rose 2015, p.14) “Identifies that local government

Each local authority has a deliberative and executive bodies; they are responsible for their own budget and resources. In general, terms, this theoretical idea means all departments are power dependence on each other, need to cooperate with each other. A study comparing countries is that of Rhodes (1981) highlights “a model of intergovernmental relations that portrayed central and local actors as participants in a complex game in which they maneuver for advantage” comparing the French system of multi-level governance different tiers of government departments all act and work together in intergovernmental relations. The more power that the governments have in relation to transfer of their functions to subnational governments. Decision making should take place as close as possible to the citizens. An example would be that social problems are best dealt with subnational government and not with central