Abstract
This paper study the Angolan institutions of Local Government, comparing them with what has to do with Local Government in the Brazilian legal system. Local Power is explicit in the 2010’ Angola Constitution, and implicit in the Brazilian constitutional text, when it elevates the Municipality to a federative entity and establishes participatory forms of exercise of political power at the local level. However, not only formal recognition of Local Government is enough, it is necessary to develop a participatory culture, still incipient in both countries
Keywords:
Angola; Participation; Local power