How is local decision-making actually, or potentially, undermined by global trade rules, or corporate/accumulation-centred regional or national policies?
Subsidiarity refers to the principle that “all decisions should be made at the lowest level of governing authority competent to deal with them” (Cavanaugh and Mander, 2004). All ‘upper’ (regional, national, global) levels of governance should be set up to protect and enhance local decision making about development. Increasingly, within dominant development, global trade rules, […]