Has decentralized authority to Scotland and Wales and also to local authorities in England. In italy, power has been transferred to the 20 regions and their provinces. local governments are closer to the urban and rural problems they must address
Recently, trends toward decentralization and greater urban self-government have been growing in the developing world as democracy has spread in Latin America, and elsewhere, and the political
process has allowed for providing greater autonomy, notably more fiscal autonomy, for regional and
local levels of government. The constitutional reform that has frequently accompanied democratization has in many cases provided an opportunity to codify greater local autonomy. A major motivation of the central government has often been to share taken on a life of its own that has been difficult to contain