0 the control of a country or an area by the people living there, or the control of an organization by a group of people independent of central or local government: --
In fact, contemporary economics and technology increasingly present dominations and powers beyond the control of the state, rendering even the idea of self-government problematic.
The proposal was turned down by the centre and bourgeois parties who argued that the effects on public expenditure and local self-government were unacceptable.
The administrative reforms have included all types of enlargement, enhancement and authorisation of regional and federal power, leaving only limited functions to local self-government.
His nightmare was that self-government might be granted to colonies before that unity had been fostered.
They also debated the need for "local self-government", though at this time through the jury and the panchayat system.
When this time comes, the monarchists want to be ready to make a credible claim for autonomous local self-government in a federal system.
As an art, self-government engenders questions of autonomy, invention, and how the individual thinks of herself, her conduct and her ways of living and being.
One of the issues which was discussed was workers' self-government.
