Territorial Delegation and Devolution of Authority

Arrangements by which a central authority delegates or shares its powers with territorial bodies or local rulers. An entry belongs here when its cited source describes a way of administering territory that works through bodies or rulers below the central government. Devolution is the transfer of powers from a national government to regional or local bodies while the central government keeps ultimate sovereignty, and indirect rule was the colonial practice of administering a territory through existing local rulers and institutions. The group lets a reader compare delegation within a state with delegation under imperial administration.