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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Previous research has highlighted that there is a lack of advanced technological solutions able to foster government-citizens collaboration. We argue that many examples of digital participatory ...platforms are already available and also ready to use for governments and citizens. Hence, causes for ineffective citizen engagement and collaboration with local government should not be sought in the lack of advanced technology. Thus, we focus on the issues and challenges that local governments face in fostering online and offline citizen engagement. We also provide a classification of challenges into six categories as a prerequisite to identifying actions and solutions for local governments.
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.
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