Reforming Cambodian Local Administration: Is Institutional History Unreceptive for Decentralization?

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Author: PRUM Virak

Publication date: September 2005

Type of document: Doctoral paper

Language: English

Abstract

Recent studies have shown that decentralization in Cambodia is limited by both cultural (Blunt and Turner 2005) and legal constraints (Prum 2005). However, little is known of the overall development of its local administration from the proto-State till 2001, the date of the adoption of the law on decentralization. Also, the birth of Khum administration (communal level), which is the only level covered by the current decentralization policy, has been taken for granted. By providing a close examination on how primitive local administration had evolved with an emphasis on the periods prior to and during the French colonization, this article argues that decentralization is not an unacceptable reform when viewed with the institutional history.

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Election systems in the world (in KHMER)

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Author: Senate of Cambodia

Permission to upload: UN Sam Ann

Publication date: 2007

Type of document: book

Language: Khmer

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Research on Better Senate for Cambodia

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Author: UN Sam Ann

Type of paper: Master’s thesis paper

Abstract

After the first general election in 1993, Cambodia has adopted a new constitution that helped to identify the nation a constitutional monarchy. Besides the symbolism of monarchy and the popular sovereignty, Cambodia adapted the separation of powers between the legislative, executive and judicial branches. Moreover, the new government system has been regarded as parliamentary because the National Assembly approved a ‘vote of confidence’ to form the new government. The main structures of the constitution are constitutional monarchy with parliamentary system…

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RETHINKING THE ROOTS OF LOCAL AUTONOMY: Preamble to the Cambodian Local Government In Search Of Theoretical Foundation

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Author: PRUM Virak

Abstract

There are but a few people who know about local government system in Cambodia, especially in terms of its problematic roots and theoretical foundation. This thesis explains the present Cambodian central-local relations in light of modern theories on the local autonomy viewed with experiences drawn from the Japanese context. First, this study will lay down a framework for analyzing the very facts deeply rooted inside the traditional politics of centralization; the intra-governmental relations, starting from the mixture of politics with the administration, the local interests deprived of guarantee, and the miss application of the theoretical local autonomy. Second, this paper fully discusses how these pre-conditions were actually translated into the legislation as an expression of state power. Finally, this thesis re-establishes the roots of the local autonomy based on four combined means involving the Constitution, the separation of the central-local powers, and the theories introduced to the judicial protection. The last part of the study will argue that local politics, to be mastered by local citizens, is one vital pre-condition of the “populist local autonomy”.

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Climate Change And North-South Divide: Between and within

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Author: PRUM Virak

Abstract

The traditional North-South divide has persisted throughout the negotiations on climate change. Divergent state interests made striking a right balance between development and environmental protection an elusive endeavors as negotiators were striving to adopt a global climate regime. Four principles for the international environmental law are of particular concern: the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, the principle of equity, the precautionary principle, and the principle of sustainable development. With economic development being the overriding priority in developing countries, the negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol tend to prove that principles could be interpreted in different ways to fit particular interests. This study explains the confrontation between the north and the south and argues that climate change has by far strengthened the North and South divide both between and within. Accordingly, it concludes that there is a need to devise new principles.

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