Excerpts from the Contents:
- Dynamics and problems of capacity development of local parliaments
- A parliamentary capacity building model
- Developing capacity of local parliaments and the dynamics of implementing decentralization and local autonomy
- Local parliaments as main actors of a democratic political system
- Capacity of local parliaments in law drafting
- Capacity of local parliaments in budget drafting
- Capacity of local parliaments with respect to the supervision of the application of public law
- Capacity of the secretariats of local parliaments as "support systems"
- Decisive factors for the development progress of parliamentary capacity
- Structured and systematic support of the capacity of local parliaments