"The neo-liberal era and its NPM-driven reforms being over, our polities confronted with terrible poly- crises and great transitions to handle, rediscover the importance of robust Neo-Weberian States and public administrations. Public employers are thus in great need of attracting the young talented people from the Z and Alpha Generations to join the Public Service. Alas, the public sector’s attractiveness in the eyes of youngsters has dropped in almost all European countries, for many reasons that are diagnosed in the article’s first section. This tricky situation calls for the setting up of a new, proactive public policy of attractiveness, whose target group, the undecided young people whose education does not predestine them to the public or the private sector, is identified in the next section. Then, a plea in favor of activating four pertinent levers of intrinsic motivation amongst these youngsters is presented in detail. The article concludes on the likely contribution of such an attractive policy to the overall objective of reconnecting (young) people with the State and the public institutions — a great need for our post-modern democracies."
{"title":"\"Your Country Needs You! For a New Policy of Public Service Attractiveness Targeting our next Generations\"","authors":"Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans","doi":"10.24193/tras.si2022.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.si2022.5","url":null,"abstract":"\"The neo-liberal era and its NPM-driven reforms being over, our polities confronted with terrible poly- crises and great transitions to handle, rediscover the importance of robust Neo-Weberian States and public administrations. Public employers are thus in great need of attracting the young talented people from the Z and Alpha Generations to join the Public Service. Alas, the public sector’s attractiveness in the eyes of youngsters has dropped in almost all European countries, for many reasons that are diagnosed in the article’s first section. This tricky situation calls for the setting up of a new, proactive public policy of attractiveness, whose target group, the undecided young people whose education does not predestine them to the public or the private sector, is identified in the next section. Then, a plea in favor of activating four pertinent levers of intrinsic motivation amongst these youngsters is presented in detail. The article concludes on the likely contribution of such an attractive policy to the overall objective of reconnecting (young) people with the State and the public institutions — a great need for our post-modern democracies.\"","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44426651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"This paper asks how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will influence Public Administration (PA) as an academic discipline in the near future, both in research and teaching. After looking at current ICT phenomena — from AI to gaming — and how PA has taken them up, two critical, interlinked phenomena are then analyzed: MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and their effects, including a review of how the Covid-19 pandemic pushed this kind of teaching, and the current ability of algorithms to write a certain type of texts. These may have the effect to strongly enforce, even lock in, current epistemological tendencies of PA, but they may also give rise to an altogether different kind of development of scholarly inquiry in the discipline and beyond."
{"title":"Public Administration Studies: The Digital Trajectory","authors":"W. Drechsler","doi":"10.24193/tras.si2022.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.si2022.4","url":null,"abstract":"\"This paper asks how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will influence Public Administration (PA) as an academic discipline in the near future, both in research and teaching. After looking at current ICT phenomena — from AI to gaming — and how PA has taken them up, two critical, interlinked phenomena are then analyzed: MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and their effects, including a review of how the Covid-19 pandemic pushed this kind of teaching, and the current ability of algorithms to write a certain type of texts. These may have the effect to strongly enforce, even lock in, current epistemological tendencies of PA, but they may also give rise to an altogether different kind of development of scholarly inquiry in the discipline and beyond.\"","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42319448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"Abstract This paper is concerned with leadership capacity at national level to mobilise society to take up challenges. It uses empirical analysis to explain how, in a European context, this capacity covaries with the development of strategic state capabilities. The evidence is used to explore the conditions in which strategic state capabilities have a positive effect on the capacity of leadership to mobilise society. These conditions include factors related to the public: social capital, average subjective wellbeing (happiness), and political attitudes relating to government and democracy (having a voice that was listened to, public trust in the government, and the public’s satisfaction with the working of democracy). It is suggested that strategically led governments with high levels of coordination in the civil service, with practices and abilities consistent with learning and agility, and with good engagement with, and good support from, the public and the organisations of civil society, tend to have national leadership elites that have a strong capacity for mobilization of society to take up challenges. In the conclusions it is stated that the democratic cultures of Europe may require more ‘open government’ and more inclusiveness so that their embryonic strategic states can better leverage information and resources of society, so that governments can offer more powerful societal leadership."
{"title":"Challenges, the Strategic State, and Agility in European Public Governance","authors":"P. Joyce","doi":"10.24193/tras.si2022.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.si2022.11","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract This paper is concerned with leadership capacity at national level to mobilise society to take up challenges. It uses empirical analysis to explain how, in a European context, this capacity covaries with the development of strategic state capabilities. The evidence is used to explore the conditions in which strategic state capabilities have a positive effect on the capacity of leadership to mobilise society. These conditions include factors related to the public: social capital, average subjective wellbeing (happiness), and political attitudes relating to government and democracy (having a voice that was listened to, public trust in the government, and the public’s satisfaction with the working of democracy). It is suggested that strategically led governments with high levels of coordination in the civil service, with practices and abilities consistent with learning and agility, and with good engagement with, and good support from, the public and the organisations of civil society, tend to have national leadership elites that have a strong capacity for mobilization of society to take up challenges. In the conclusions it is stated that the democratic cultures of Europe may require more ‘open government’ and more inclusiveness so that their embryonic strategic states can better leverage information and resources of society, so that governments can offer more powerful societal leadership.\"","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47878017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"The paper examines the spatial concepts and mechanisms that drive the reconfiguration of the tourism space and provide policy-relevant informa tion. Mapping the spatial patterns of tourism supply and demand at finely-grained data over the last two decades, the analysis employs spatiotemporal and scaling methods to capture the interactions and de pendencies among tourism concentrations. The findings point to space-tourism realignments based on heterogeneous concentration patterns and trajectories of change, supply growth and ex pansion at the first level of contiguity, and diffused domestic vs. polarized international arrivals. The bi nary approach of tourism concentrations of supply and demand with varying location quotients enables the identification of both differences and similarities in terms of contextual and tourism development in dicators. In support of context-sensitive policy inter ventions, we argue that space should be regarded as a central dimension of the tourism development pol icy. Providing a snapshot of the tourism concentra tions in 2019, the study may count as a baseline ref erence for further analyses in post-pandemic times."
{"title":"Discussing the Spatial Underpinnings of Tourism Policy and Planning in Romania","authors":"C. Popescu, M. Persu","doi":"10.24193/tras.67e.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.67e.3","url":null,"abstract":"\"The paper examines the spatial concepts and mechanisms that drive the reconfiguration of the tourism space and provide policy-relevant informa tion. Mapping the spatial patterns of tourism supply and demand at finely-grained data over the last two decades, the analysis employs spatiotemporal and scaling methods to capture the interactions and de pendencies among tourism concentrations. The findings point to space-tourism realignments based on heterogeneous concentration patterns and trajectories of change, supply growth and ex pansion at the first level of contiguity, and diffused domestic vs. polarized international arrivals. The bi nary approach of tourism concentrations of supply and demand with varying location quotients enables the identification of both differences and similarities in terms of contextual and tourism development in dicators. In support of context-sensitive policy inter ventions, we argue that space should be regarded as a central dimension of the tourism development pol icy. Providing a snapshot of the tourism concentra tions in 2019, the study may count as a baseline ref erence for further analyses in post-pandemic times.\"","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45051505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Informal institutions are increasingly emphasized by local development thinkers as preconditions and factors supporting local development. In post-so cialist European countries (PSECs), the need to strengthen informal institutions has been postulat ed as imperative by some researchers, critically ad dressing previous decades of rather infrastructural development. In this paper, we argue that, in con trast to this discourse, the operationalization of in formal institutions for their use in strategic planning and local development remains unclear. This results in inconsistencies and conflicting natures between the planning process itself and its goals. Based on a review of the literature on the role of informal insti tutions in local strategic planning and development, we identify the two main shortcomings in the use of the concept. First, we point out the lack of their oper ationalization, which is underpinned by a poor under standing of the different levels of abstraction inher ent to informal institutions. Second, we assert that neglecting such different levels of abstraction often leads to a lack of consensus on appropriate ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of strategic planning out comes. To reduce the formalism while referring to informal institutions in existing local strategies, we propose a new conceptual approach that allows for their operationalization. The applicability of the pro posed concept is discussed specifically in the realm of post-socialist European planning.
{"title":"Streamlining Informal Institutions for Local Strategic Planning and Development in a Post-Socialist Central-European Setting","authors":"T. Sykora, P. Raška, J. Koutský","doi":"10.24193/tras.67e.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.67e.8","url":null,"abstract":"Informal institutions are increasingly emphasized by local development thinkers as preconditions and factors supporting local development. In post-so cialist European countries (PSECs), the need to strengthen informal institutions has been postulat ed as imperative by some researchers, critically ad dressing previous decades of rather infrastructural development. In this paper, we argue that, in con trast to this discourse, the operationalization of in formal institutions for their use in strategic planning and local development remains unclear. This results in inconsistencies and conflicting natures between the planning process itself and its goals. Based on a review of the literature on the role of informal insti tutions in local strategic planning and development, we identify the two main shortcomings in the use of the concept. First, we point out the lack of their oper ationalization, which is underpinned by a poor under standing of the different levels of abstraction inher ent to informal institutions. Second, we assert that neglecting such different levels of abstraction often leads to a lack of consensus on appropriate ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of strategic planning out comes. To reduce the formalism while referring to informal institutions in existing local strategies, we propose a new conceptual approach that allows for their operationalization. The applicability of the pro posed concept is discussed specifically in the realm of post-socialist European planning.","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42406562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"The research analyses the leadership styles prac ticed in the Romanian public administration, the gender differences regarding the practiced leader ship and in terms of exhibiting behaviors that could lead to the development of civil servants’ resilience, trying to investigate the relation between leadership, gender, and resilience. The paper contributes to the scientific literature in the field by analyzing three concepts that are not usually explored together and especially in the public administration. The research methodology consists of a sociological survey con ducted in the Romanian public administration where 766 civil servants agreed to participate. The research revealed that the studied leaders present a mix of characteristics where transforma tional and transactional behaviors are predominant. Regarding gender differences, both men and wom en are considered to lead in a similar manner, but a higher preference for male leaders was observed. Men’s leadership behaviors are better appreciated, indicating the presence of gender stereotypes and a certain level of prejudice against women. The studied leaders possess the necessary character istics for developing civil servants’ resilience, being perceived as exhibiting supportive, encouraging, and motivating attitudes when their subordinates faced difficult moments in their careers. Also, the exis tence of a direct relation between transformational leadership and resilience was observed."
{"title":"Impact of Leadership and Gender on Civil Servants’ Resilience in the Romanian State’s Public Administration","authors":"Alina G. Profiroiu, Corina C. Nastaca","doi":"10.24193/tras.67e.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.67e.4","url":null,"abstract":"\"The research analyses the leadership styles prac ticed in the Romanian public administration, the gender differences regarding the practiced leader ship and in terms of exhibiting behaviors that could lead to the development of civil servants’ resilience, trying to investigate the relation between leadership, gender, and resilience. The paper contributes to the scientific literature in the field by analyzing three concepts that are not usually explored together and especially in the public administration. The research methodology consists of a sociological survey con ducted in the Romanian public administration where 766 civil servants agreed to participate. The research revealed that the studied leaders present a mix of characteristics where transforma tional and transactional behaviors are predominant. Regarding gender differences, both men and wom en are considered to lead in a similar manner, but a higher preference for male leaders was observed. Men’s leadership behaviors are better appreciated, indicating the presence of gender stereotypes and a certain level of prejudice against women. The studied leaders possess the necessary character istics for developing civil servants’ resilience, being perceived as exhibiting supportive, encouraging, and motivating attitudes when their subordinates faced difficult moments in their careers. Also, the exis tence of a direct relation between transformational leadership and resilience was observed.\"","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48896544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"The COVID-19 pandemic, with its public mea sures, has led to changes in public administration and in the way public servants organize their work and working time. The purpose of our article is to de termine whether there is a correlation between work during non-work time and extended availability for work among public servants in the Slovenian public administration who worked from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was conducted in February 2021 in the Slovenian public administra tion and involved 1,676 public servants. Based on the data of our study, which we analyzed using var ious statistical methods (Chi-square, Kruskal-Wallis test, Dunn-Bonferroni post hoc test, Spearman’s rho), we assert that during the COVID-19 pandemic, public servants in the Slovenian public administra tion who worked from home performed their work during non-work time and were excessively available for work. As a result, their ability to psychologically detach from work decreased."
{"title":"Extended Availability of Public Servants for Work from Home During Non-Work Time in the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Špela Mar, Jernej Buzeti","doi":"10.24193/tras.67e.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.67e.1","url":null,"abstract":"\"The COVID-19 pandemic, with its public mea sures, has led to changes in public administration and in the way public servants organize their work and working time. The purpose of our article is to de termine whether there is a correlation between work during non-work time and extended availability for work among public servants in the Slovenian public administration who worked from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was conducted in February 2021 in the Slovenian public administra tion and involved 1,676 public servants. Based on the data of our study, which we analyzed using var ious statistical methods (Chi-square, Kruskal-Wallis test, Dunn-Bonferroni post hoc test, Spearman’s rho), we assert that during the COVID-19 pandemic, public servants in the Slovenian public administra tion who worked from home performed their work during non-work time and were excessively available for work. As a result, their ability to psychologically detach from work decreased.\"","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42397901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"The article analyzes how internal public audit (IPA) transformed in Romania between 2006 and 2020, in order to explore: (a) the degree in which cen tral and local public institutions organized their IPA activities as a specialized department or in an asso ciative structure; (b) how did the human resources allocated to IPA activities transformed in this period (focusing on employment, the ability to cover the needs of public organizations and the educational/ professional specialization of internal auditors), and (c) how IPA missions changed over time. The empiri cal research consists of a detailed analysis of official annual reports published by the Central Harmoniza tion Unit for Internal Public Audit, thus ensuring the reliability of the analysis. Our main results indicate the existence of multiple differences between central and local public organi zations, regarding their degree/level of IPA activities organization (especially before 2013) and the num ber of organizations each internal public auditor was tasked to audit (ranging from 1 at the central level to almost 8 at the local level). Unfortunately, the under staffing of IPA departments/ bureaus is not condu cive to an accurate identification and assessment of potential organizational weaknesses and risks, thus potentially hindering the performance of both central and local public institutions. "
{"title":"The Transformation of Romanian Internal Public Audit between 2006 and 2020","authors":"O. Moldovan, F. Macarie","doi":"10.24193/tras.67e.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.67e.2","url":null,"abstract":"\"The article analyzes how internal public audit (IPA) transformed in Romania between 2006 and 2020, in order to explore: (a) the degree in which cen tral and local public institutions organized their IPA activities as a specialized department or in an asso ciative structure; (b) how did the human resources allocated to IPA activities transformed in this period (focusing on employment, the ability to cover the needs of public organizations and the educational/ professional specialization of internal auditors), and (c) how IPA missions changed over time. The empiri cal research consists of a detailed analysis of official annual reports published by the Central Harmoniza tion Unit for Internal Public Audit, thus ensuring the reliability of the analysis. Our main results indicate the existence of multiple differences between central and local public organi zations, regarding their degree/level of IPA activities organization (especially before 2013) and the num ber of organizations each internal public auditor was tasked to audit (ranging from 1 at the central level to almost 8 at the local level). Unfortunately, the under staffing of IPA departments/ bureaus is not condu cive to an accurate identification and assessment of potential organizational weaknesses and risks, thus potentially hindering the performance of both central and local public institutions. \"","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41961876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"Performance management has become a global trend in government reform movements. Previous studies have emphasized performance feedback, referring to the fact that local governments have ad opted numerous performance practices to enhance local service performance. Accordingly, while many studies sought mechanisms that motivate manag ers to seek performance feedback, they have not clarified how the different performance information signals foster managers’ problem-solving activities. This study conducted a survey experiment to assess local managers’ agreement with a prob lem-solving system such as performance consulting when presented with the performance information on citizen satisfaction with service quality. The re sults indicate that local managers with low citizen satisfaction scores are more reactive to the perfor mance information, supporting problem-solving sys tem, and the managerial reactions to performance information increase with detailed information."
{"title":"Exploring Local Managers’ Motivations to Seek Problem-Solving in Response to Citizens’ Feedback Signals on Service Quality","authors":"Heontae Shin, Youngmin Oh","doi":"10.24193/tras.67e.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.67e.5","url":null,"abstract":"\"Performance management has become a global trend in government reform movements. Previous studies have emphasized performance feedback, referring to the fact that local governments have ad opted numerous performance practices to enhance local service performance. Accordingly, while many studies sought mechanisms that motivate manag ers to seek performance feedback, they have not clarified how the different performance information signals foster managers’ problem-solving activities. This study conducted a survey experiment to assess local managers’ agreement with a prob lem-solving system such as performance consulting when presented with the performance information on citizen satisfaction with service quality. The re sults indicate that local managers with low citizen satisfaction scores are more reactive to the perfor mance information, supporting problem-solving sys tem, and the managerial reactions to performance information increase with detailed information.\"","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46712096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"This paper explores the effects of the distribution of fiscal authority for fiscal decentralization on the U.S. state budget balance. Numerous scholars have pointed out that fiscal institutions play an important role in achieving budget balance, but their degree of authority fundamentally determines how fiscal insti tutions are authorized across the multi-level system in a federal government system. As an empirical ex ploration, this paper captures the authority of fiscal institutions through multiple dimensions of account ing and financial information. The results revealed that local governments are better able to balance their budgets when fiscal authority over revenue is decentralized, while states are more likely to achieve a balanced budget when authority over expenditure is decentralized. These contradictory effects result from overlapping tax-bases and customers of public services across states and their local governments."
{"title":"The Dilemma Between Fiscal Decentralization and Budget Balance","authors":"Jongmin Shon","doi":"10.24193/tras.67e.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.67e.6","url":null,"abstract":"\"This paper explores the effects of the distribution of fiscal authority for fiscal decentralization on the U.S. state budget balance. Numerous scholars have pointed out that fiscal institutions play an important role in achieving budget balance, but their degree of authority fundamentally determines how fiscal insti tutions are authorized across the multi-level system in a federal government system. As an empirical ex ploration, this paper captures the authority of fiscal institutions through multiple dimensions of account ing and financial information. The results revealed that local governments are better able to balance their budgets when fiscal authority over revenue is decentralized, while states are more likely to achieve a balanced budget when authority over expenditure is decentralized. These contradictory effects result from overlapping tax-bases and customers of public services across states and their local governments.\"","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45716441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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