Although stakeholder theory has been on the academic agenda for more than 30 years, empirical evidence is still scant about stakeholders' influence as determinant factors of local governments' ...performance. Evidence from 82 empirical studies on stakeholder influence as a source of local government effectiveness is assessed in this article. The choice of studies was based in a systematic literature review, encompassing articles published in the period from 2007 to 2017 in which stakeholder influences are considered determinant factors of local government performance. This research contributes to this field of knowledge by synthesizing the pertinent publications and pointing out an agenda for future studies. Keywords: determinants of performance; government organizations; local government; stakeholder influences; systematic literature review. Embora a teoria dos stakeholders esteja na agenda academica nos ultimos 30 anos, ate o momento, existe pouca evidencia sobre influencia de stakeholders como fator determinante do desempenho de governos locais. A investigacao examina os fatores determinantes do desempenho de governos locais atraves de artigos publicados em periodicos ranqueados no Journal of Citation Report. A escolha dos artigos foi embasada em revisao sistematica de literatura em publicacoes do periodo de 2007 a 2017 nas quais influencias de stakeholders tenha sido usada como variavel explanatoria de desempenho de governos locais. Este artigo contribui para o campo de conhecimento sintetizando as publicacoes mais relevantes, apontando lacunas na literatura e propondo uma agenda para estudos futuros. Palavras-chave: determinantes do desempenho; governo local; influencias dos stakeholders; organizacoes governamentais; revisao sistematica da literatura. Si bien la teoria de los stakeholders ha estado en la agenda academica desde hace mas de 30 anos, las evidencias empiricas son escasas acerca de la influencia de los stakeholders como factores determinantes del desempeno de los gobiernos locales. Las evidencias de 82 estudios empiricos sobre las influencias de los stakeholders como fuentes de la efectividad del gobierno local se evaluan aqui. La eleccion de los documentos se baso en una revision sistematica de la literatura, que abarca articulos publicados en el periodo de 2007 a 2017 en los que las influencias de los stakeholders se consideran factores determinantes del desempeno del gobierno local. Este trabajo contribuye a este campo de conocimiento sintetizando las publicaciones pertinentes y senalando una agenda para futuros estudios. Palabras clave: determinantes del rendimiento; gobiernos locales; influencias de los stakeholders; organizaciones gubernamentales; revision sistematica de la literatura.
Trust in political institutions is the most important component of a legitimate state. Based on the authors' empirical research on the participation of Russian youth in local self-government, the ...article analyzes the trust in the municipal government in comparison with the level of civic engagement. The theoretical basis of the article is the institutional theory. According to it trust can be considered as an integral characteristic of the functioning of a political institution. To study the practice of youth participation in local self-government, the authors conducted an empirical sociological study in October-November 2020. The data collection method is a questionnaire survey of young Russian people aged 14-30 years (n = 2000 people). The article argues that young people are characterized by a high level of declared civic engagement. However, the level of youth trust in local government remains low. The trust is associated with awareness of the activities at level: the lower the level of awareness of young people about the work of local authorities, the lower the level of trust in them.
The research seeks to analyze Local Government in Angola, a sub-Saharan African country, and its constituent institutions, explicitly recognized in the 2010' Angola Constitution. However, is known ...that Local Government and the decentralized and participatory institutions that compose it require much more than its formal recognition in constitutional and legal texts. It is necessary to develop participatory political institutions. And this is the great challenge of democratic local governance in Angolan in this 21st century.
The research seeks to analyze Local Government in Angola, a sub-Saharan African country, and its constituent institutions, explicitly recognized in the 2010' Angola Constitution. However, is known ...that Local Government and the decentralized and participatory institutions that compose it require much more than its formal recognition in constitutional and legal texts. It is necessary to develop participatory political institutions. And this is the great challenge of democratic local governance in Angolan in this 21st century. Keywords: Angola. Participation. Local Power. A pesquisa procura analisar o Poder Local em Angola, país situado na África Sub-saariana, e as instituições que o integram, reconhecidas explicitamente na Constitução da República de Angola de 2010. Entretanto, o Poder Local e as instituições descentralizadas e participativas que o compõem necessitam muito mais do que o seu reconhecimento formal. É preciso desenvolver instituições políticas participativas. E esse é o grande desafio da governação local democrática angolana neste século XXI. Palavras-chave: Angola. Participação. Poder Local.
Population growth exerts an impact on both sides of the local government accounting ledger - expenditure and revenue. Despite this fact, the vast scholarly literature on local government finance has ...been myopically focussed on expenditure functions. This apparent neglect to also consider the revenue side of the ledger is problematic because many regulators across the globe have exhorted local governments to pursue growth according to the assumption that it will promote fiscal health. In this article we first set out a number of propositions that combine to cast some doubt on the common wisdom dispensed by local government policy-makers. Following this, we empirically explore the effects of population growth on revenue by making recourse to a comprehensive 10-year panel of revenue and population data. We conclude our work with some important public policy recommendations arising from the need to mitigate the prima facie surprising results that we obtain.
The rate of expansion and the breadth of COVID‐19 caught the world by surprise. From the perspective of nonprofit and public entities responsible for service provision, this pandemic is also ...unprecedented. The authors offer a RISE framework for navigating the fiscal effects of COVID‐19 and rely on recent surveys to assess the response strategies of local governments and nonprofit organizations. They find that many nonprofits were hit fastest and hardest by the pandemic and that local governments are, essentially, trying to figure out their financial condition moving into the next budget cycle.
This paper analyses the effect of an unconditional cash transfer program, provided by a local government in Mexico, on the voting behavior of its direct beneficiaries. Using a list experiment that ...employs data from an original survey conducted in Guadalajara, Mexico, we explore if being a beneficiary of the program is a significant issue to cast a vote. The analysis shows that voters are indeed influenced in their voting decisions by being beneficiaries of a social program. The main result of this study indicates that 16 percent of the beneficiaries considered the receipt of the social program in their voting decision.
Most research has conceptualized red tape as being a pathological subset of organizational formalization. This article argues that focusing on a single dimension of organizational structure as a red ...tape driver is unrealistically narrow. Specifically, the article advances hypotheses as to how organizational centralization and hierarchy affect perceived red tape, in addition to formalization. This reasoning is tested using survey data from employees of three local government organizations in the southeastern United States. All three hypotheses are supported: higher levels of organizational formalization, centralization, and hierarchy are associated with more red tape. Open‐ended comments also indicate that red tape is not solely perceived as related to formalization. The findings imply that red tape is a multifaceted perception of organizational structure rather than perceived pathological formalization.
Local government spending and service delivery in Indonesia: the perverse effects of substantial fiscal resources. Regional Studies. This study examines the impact of local government expenditure on ...service delivery in Indonesia. District spending positively influences education, health and infrastructure service access - but only up to a point, after which the relationship becomes negative. The quadratic spending effects disappear for districts managed by directly elected executives and those that perform well on their financial audits. For these arguably less corrupt districts the impact of spending on services is positive across the entire range of expenditure. The consistently beneficial impact of less corrupt district spending on service access is mitigated, however, by rising dependence on intergovernmental transfers.
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