'upper government' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to the highest level of government, such as a federal or national government. For example: The upper government has released a statement on the current economic situation.
It was designed by the upper level government to select the chief officials of the lower level based on competition, where the GDP growth rate was a key factor, along with others such as foreign direct investment, employment rate and social stability (World Bank and Development Research Centre of the State Council of China 2013).
Ordinance by the Upper Austrian government repealing the Ordinance on the use of plant protection products for the control of fire blight (Upper Austria Plant Protection Products Use Ordinance).
When it is necessary to work in different ways because of demographical changes, IMC has some clear advantages over other possible solutions, such as territorial reorganization and centralization of local tasks to upper level government.
Different from central-local relationships in other countries (Dixit and Londregan 1998), governments at the provincial and county level rely on the upper-tier government to expand project funds, while the upper-tier government relies on the local governments to strive for more fiscal budget from projects and gain more authority in these projects.
In the U.S., local governments are governed by a group of elected council members, who are answerable to none of the upper level governments (state or federal) – only to local voters.
Meanwhile, competition among lower-tier governments lends credibility to the upper-tier government.
The upper-tier government thus remains highly authoritative (Bendor et al. 1987).
In addition, China implicated regional development policy with regions differing in the policy priority, and the upper-tier government has the controlling power to orientate the regional function, index of land use, and credit policies.
"The Organic Law of the People's Republic of China on the People's Congresses and People's Governments at All Local Levels" stipulates that local governments should execute resolutions and decisions of the People's Congress and the Standing Committee of the People's Congress at the local level, as well as decisions and orders from the upper-tier government.
Second, low-tier governments will seek extra opportunities and ask for protection from the upper-tier government and may even conspire or selectively execute decisions to avoid punishment (Kornai 1992; Walder 1986; Rong 1998; O'Brien and Li 1999; Zhou 2005a; 2008; Liu 2005) (see Table 2).
