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The book educates, enlightens and exposes the students and practitioners of local government to the evolution, development, principles, practices and theories for studying local government; its place in structure of government, its relationship with other governments, source of its revenue, its operations and changes it have witnessed across the world using Nigeria, United States, Britain, France, India and Tanzania as case studies of analysis. The political and administrative structure of local government in these countries were examined, to provide the basis on how these institutions operates, the differences between the single and multi-tier structures in various local government systems. In the book, the reader will learn about the evolution of Comparative Local Government as a discipline, the different phases of the growth and development of the study, the nature approaches and the methodologies of analysis in Comparative Local Government Administrations.