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Item Good Governance & Local Government in Sri Lanka(Reviewing International Encounters 2015, Research Center for Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Mudalige, P.This paper concerned good governance & local government in Sri Lanka.Local government is the part of the government which deals mainly local affairs, administered by authorities subordinate to the state government but elected independently by the qualified residents. Modern democratic system is the most appropriate system from the point of view of good governance. Good governance is seen to bring in happiness and welfare of the people. It also associated with efficient and effective administration in a democratic in framework. With this there will be effective measures to prevent and combat corruption, support for leadership development, sharing the lover level power, empower men and women &decision making. Sri Lanka is a republic and a unitary governed by a semi presidential system. Sri Lanka has a long history in practicing local government system. Local government is the third and lowest level of government in Sri Lanka after the central government and Provincial councils. They are responsible for the providing a variety of local public services. Local authorities are divided into three deference groups Municipal Council. Urban Council &PradeshiyaSabha. Both primary and secondary data are used in the study. Primary data have been collected through methods such as questionnaire survey, key informant interview, focus group interview, and were collected via observation, Sources of secondary information include project reports, official documents and published research reports . The Study was done with reference to Uwa and Western provinces in local authorities. The study for qualitative and quantitative methods usedItem Fiscal Devolution and Good Governance: A Study on the Provincial Councils System in Sri Lanka(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Mudalige, P.Democratic republic of Sri Lanka is a country that has a democratic and unilateral governing system. In 1987, nine Provincial Councils (PCs) were introduced under the unilateral ruling system and its ambition was devolution of power among provinces its main purpose was to satisfy armed groups who were struggling for a separate country on north and east areas and grant the political power and constitutional order. So PCs system was three decades old a lot of experiences have been achieved in the present. The aspect of the Good Governance was to join the all groups for the decision making process. But it can be easy for strengthening the PCs units rather than central governments. The main objective of this research is to analyze whether fiscal devolution of the provincial level has been succeed in terms of good governance. Both primary and secondary data were used in the study. Primary data was collected through questionnaire survey. Out of nine, two PCs were selected as cases and mixed method was used to analyze the data. The study finds that, the central government dominates the public expenditure scene accounting for as much as 88% of total government expenditure and the public revenue scene accounting for as much as 94% of total government revenue. In addition to that accountability of the politician are very low. In conclusion Fiscal devolution mechanism failed for good governance in provincial levels in Sri Lanka.Item Good governance and local government in Sri Lanka(2013) Mudalige, P.Item පළාත් සභා යටතේ පාසල් අධ්‍යාපනයේ පවතින ගැටලූ; උතුරුමැද පළාත් සභාව ආශ‍්‍රයෙන් සිදුකරනු ලබන අධ්‍යයනයකි(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Madhumali, K.G.S.; Mudalige, P.Item රාජ්‍ය ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති සම්පාදනය හා වතු කම්කරු සුභසාධනය: කොත්මලේ ප‍්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාසය ඇසුරින්(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Jayarathne, R.G.M.T.; Mudalige, P.Item ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ පළාත් සභාවල මූල්‍ය කි‍්‍රයාකාරිත්වය - යහපාලනකරණය ඇසුරින් විමර්ශනයක්(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Mudalige, P.Item ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ කාන්තාවන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් වතුපිටිවල ඇඟලූම් කලාපය ඇසුරින්(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Kumari, W.K.A.P.; Mudalige, P.Item රාජ්‍ය ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති යටතේ රණවිරු සුබසාධනය - කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයේ පාන්ගොල්ල රණවිරු ගම්මානය ආශි‍්‍රත අධ්‍යයනයක්(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Weerasekara, W.G.T.; Mudalige, P.Item නොබැඳි ව්‍යාපාරයේ ආරම්භය හා ක්‍රියාකාරිත්වය පිළිබඳ විමර්ශනයක්(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Mudalige, P.Item Barriers in overcoming political instability in the SAARC region: with special reference to Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Mudalige, P.