The territorial decision in Morocco between centralization and decentralization

Abstract

The nature of the relationship between the center and the periphery determines the limits imposed on the territorial groups at the level of territorial decision-making, which is embodied through the dominance of the administrative bureaucratic authority at the local level, given the available legal, organizational, human and institutional resources, which raises the question of the relationship between democracy and bureaucracy. This makes decentralization an area for implementing the policies of the central authority and its strategic and developmental plans and an area for supporting its legitimacy, which imposes limits on the crystallization of the territorial decision despite the various gains that have been achieved in this context. The main objective of the research is to determine the nature of the relationship between decentralization and centralization at the level of crystallization of the territorial decision. And we came to a basic conclusion through our study of the subject, which was represented in the dominance of the bureaucratic apparatus over the authority of the territorial decision-making, despite all the gains that have been achieved in favor of local democracy, the authorities of administrative non-concentration still enjoy various legal and institutional resources to implement soil public policies. The research concludes with the most important recommendation, which is the necessity of rearranging the relationship between the state and its territorial environment and granting a measure of independence to the elected in formulating the territorial decision by mitigating the monitoring power exercised by the local bureaucratic apparatus.