Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2081551
Susan Baxter, A. Barnes, Caroline Lee, R. Mead, M. Clowes
ABSTRACT Creating conditions to empower local people is an important determinant of health, and crucial in addressing health inequity. Yet, experimentation with initiatives to support public participation at a local level is threatened by enduring global economic instability. A better understanding of how different participatory approaches might address the social determinants of health would support future prioritisation of actions and investment.We reviewed recent literature and theories on initiatives to increase peoples’ influence in local decision-making and on social determinants of health. Our synthesis found little detail about the form and function of initiatives, but diverse factors deemed influential in achieving outcomes. Studies highlighted that pressure on resources undermines individual and community capacities to participate, and requires organisational leaders to think/act differently.Suggested priorities for local governance are: supporting capabilities and relationships between organisations and communities; creating safe and equitable spaces for interaction and knowledge-sharing; and changing institutional culture.
{"title":"Increasing public participation and influence in local decision-making to address social determinants of health: a systematic review examining initiatives and theories","authors":"Susan Baxter, A. Barnes, Caroline Lee, R. Mead, M. Clowes","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2022.2081551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2081551","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Creating conditions to empower local people is an important determinant of health, and crucial in addressing health inequity. Yet, experimentation with initiatives to support public participation at a local level is threatened by enduring global economic instability. A better understanding of how different participatory approaches might address the social determinants of health would support future prioritisation of actions and investment.We reviewed recent literature and theories on initiatives to increase peoples’ influence in local decision-making and on social determinants of health. Our synthesis found little detail about the form and function of initiatives, but diverse factors deemed influential in achieving outcomes. Studies highlighted that pressure on resources undermines individual and community capacities to participate, and requires organisational leaders to think/act differently.Suggested priorities for local governance are: supporting capabilities and relationships between organisations and communities; creating safe and equitable spaces for interaction and knowledge-sharing; and changing institutional culture.","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47590214","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-12DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2087060
R. Troisi, G. Alfano
ABSTRACT This study examines why citizens re-elect corrupt mayors, adopting a conceptual framework that considers two mitigating factors in punishing corrupt leaders: first, a strong relationship between the mayor and the citizens; second, a low level of corruption that may be considered negligible by the citizens. Both factors are contingent on local contexts. Thus, the study investigates in clustered local contexts, the impact of variables related to the mayor-citizen (taking account of the duration of the political career, party membership and trasformismo/party-switching) and the level of corruption on mayoral re-election. The results shows that the relationship between the mayor and the citizens is a mitigating factor that works homogeneously across contexts, albeit based on different factors. With regard to low levels of corruption as a mitigating factor, evidence of this is found only in medium and highly developed communities. The theoretical and policy implications are examined.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-28DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2081552
Annika Agger, Anne Tortzen
ABSTRACT A growing number of public professionals are now expected to facilitate co-production processes with affected citizens to produce robust policies and services. Yet the role of ‘front-line co-producers’ and how their mindset and ability to cope with the cross-pressures affects co-production remains under-theorised and empirically understudied in the scholarly literature. The article provides concepts and empirical evidence of how ‘frontline co-producers’ navigate cross-pressures by exploring the enabling and inhibiting factors for co-production. Empirically, we draw on a case study of a Danish municipality consisting of qualitative interviews with 18 public professionals at different levels, all of whom have experience working with co-production. The findings contribute to the small but growing academic literature on the role of public professionals in co-production and how their individual-level practices, together with organisational and management factors, can enable or inhibit ‘co-production on the outside’.
{"title":"‘Co-production on the inside’ – public professionals negotiating interaction between municipal actors and local citizens","authors":"Annika Agger, Anne Tortzen","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2022.2081552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2081552","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A growing number of public professionals are now expected to facilitate co-production processes with affected citizens to produce robust policies and services. Yet the role of ‘front-line co-producers’ and how their mindset and ability to cope with the cross-pressures affects co-production remains under-theorised and empirically understudied in the scholarly literature. The article provides concepts and empirical evidence of how ‘frontline co-producers’ navigate cross-pressures by exploring the enabling and inhibiting factors for co-production. Empirically, we draw on a case study of a Danish municipality consisting of qualitative interviews with 18 public professionals at different levels, all of whom have experience working with co-production. The findings contribute to the small but growing academic literature on the role of public professionals in co-production and how their individual-level practices, together with organisational and management factors, can enable or inhibit ‘co-production on the outside’.","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"801 - 820"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48985006","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2078807
Luca Tangi, Marco Gaeta, M. Benedetti, L. Gastaldi, G. Noci
{"title":"Assessing the effect of organisational factors and ICT expenditures on e-maturity: empirical results in Italian municipalities","authors":"Luca Tangi, Marco Gaeta, M. Benedetti, L. Gastaldi, G. Noci","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2022.2078807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2078807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43121255","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2077729
M. Rodrigues
{"title":"Can even still be uneven? The effect of quotas in Portuguese local governments","authors":"M. Rodrigues","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2022.2077729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2077729","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46447914","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-18DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2041416
G. Bel, I. Bischoff, Sara Blåka, Mattia Casula, Jakub Lysek, P. Swianiewicz, António F. Tavares, B. Voorn
ABSTRACT Cooperation in the delivery of public services is generally framed as desirable, but it is often hindered by serious collective action problems. The article compares inter-municipal cooperation in seven countries with different institutional settings. It investigates the rules of governance characterising these diverse institutional settings and assesses how they deal with the multiple principal problem. The authors find that in almost all cases, all participating municipalities are represented on the supervisory board of the cooperative entity. In contrast, in other less frequent case cooperation is frequently managed through a different tier of local government, thus circumventing the multiple principal problem affecting inter-municipal arrangements in the other countries.
{"title":"Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries","authors":"G. Bel, I. Bischoff, Sara Blåka, Mattia Casula, Jakub Lysek, P. Swianiewicz, António F. Tavares, B. Voorn","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2022.2041416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2041416","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Cooperation in the delivery of public services is generally framed as desirable, but it is often hindered by serious collective action problems. The article compares inter-municipal cooperation in seven countries with different institutional settings. It investigates the rules of governance characterising these diverse institutional settings and assesses how they deal with the multiple principal problem. The authors find that in almost all cases, all participating municipalities are represented on the supervisory board of the cooperative entity. In contrast, in other less frequent case cooperation is frequently managed through a different tier of local government, thus circumventing the multiple principal problem affecting inter-municipal arrangements in the other countries.","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"422 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49312851","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-18DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2077728
C. McMullin
ABSTRACT Previous literature on co-production tends to position the professional as engaging in core service delivery activities, while the citizen co-producer may contribute to either complementary or core tasks. Bringing together insights from the literature on co-production and the facilitation of citizen initiatives, I present a typology of the complementary tasks undertaken by professionals, focusing on professionals who work for third sector organisations. Based on an analysis of qualitative data, I posit that third sector professionals may undertake three categories of complementary tasks – training, administrative support and budget management. These professionals experience tensions between balancing core/complementary tasks and skilled/unskilled tasks, and between co-producing with citizens or doing the work on their own. This article makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role of the professional as a facilitator in co-production, as a means to more effectively engage citizens in designing and delivering public services.
{"title":"“I’m paid to do other things”: Complementary co-production tasks for professionals","authors":"C. McMullin","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2022.2077728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2077728","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Previous literature on co-production tends to position the professional as engaging in core service delivery activities, while the citizen co-producer may contribute to either complementary or core tasks. Bringing together insights from the literature on co-production and the facilitation of citizen initiatives, I present a typology of the complementary tasks undertaken by professionals, focusing on professionals who work for third sector organisations. Based on an analysis of qualitative data, I posit that third sector professionals may undertake three categories of complementary tasks – training, administrative support and budget management. These professionals experience tensions between balancing core/complementary tasks and skilled/unskilled tasks, and between co-producing with citizens or doing the work on their own. This article makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role of the professional as a facilitator in co-production, as a means to more effectively engage citizens in designing and delivering public services.","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"780 - 800"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42167937","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}
Pub Date : 2022-03-20DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2052857
Sissel Hovik, I. Stigen
ABSTRACT Although local governments establish various arrangements to stimulate citizen participation, knowledge about what happens with citizens’ proposals after participation is weak. To gain impact, citizen initiatives must be handled through the decision-making process. This article examines the dynamics of such handling of input from citizen participation in three different cases linked to an area-based initiative in Oslo, Norway. The study shows that different actors can play a role as boundary spanners handling citizen proposals, and how this crucial handling varies with the structural and procedural linkages between the participatory spaces and the formal decision-making processes. The study reveals a ‘complexity paradox’; in cases where responsibility is shared among different sectors and levels of government, each unit represents a veto point that can hinder citizen impact, but also an entrance that can enable such impact.
{"title":"The paradox of organizational complexity in urban development: boundary spanners’ handling of citizen proposals","authors":"Sissel Hovik, I. Stigen","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2022.2052857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2052857","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although local governments establish various arrangements to stimulate citizen participation, knowledge about what happens with citizens’ proposals after participation is weak. To gain impact, citizen initiatives must be handled through the decision-making process. This article examines the dynamics of such handling of input from citizen participation in three different cases linked to an area-based initiative in Oslo, Norway. The study shows that different actors can play a role as boundary spanners handling citizen proposals, and how this crucial handling varies with the structural and procedural linkages between the participatory spaces and the formal decision-making processes. The study reveals a ‘complexity paradox’; in cases where responsibility is shared among different sectors and levels of government, each unit represents a veto point that can hinder citizen impact, but also an entrance that can enable such impact.","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"314 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42189867","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 article investigates whether citizens reward those politicians who achieve better results in public management with re-election. It analyses the last three electoral processes in Spanish local governments, a period that runs from the beginning of the economic crisis (2007) to the last municipal elections (2019). For periods of financial crisis, the results indicate a higher probability of re-election for governments that have better managed public services. In periods of economic growth, citizens do not take into account the capacity that rulers have shown in public management.
{"title":"Influence of managerial ability on the re-election of municipal political parties","authors":"Bernardino Benito, Pedro-José Martínez-Córdoba, María-Dolores Guillamón López","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2022.2052856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2052856","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates whether citizens reward those politicians who achieve better results in public management with re-election. It analyses the last three electoral processes in Spanish local governments, a period that runs from the beginning of the economic crisis (2007) to the last municipal elections (2019). For periods of financial crisis, the results indicate a higher probability of re-election for governments that have better managed public services. In periods of economic growth, citizens do not take into account the capacity that rulers have shown in public management.","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"181 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47229521","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}
Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2045277
A. Flamant, Aude-Claire Fourot, Aisling Healy
In August 2021, the coming to power of the Taliban led to the exile of thousands of Afghan citizens, fearing for their lives. Images of the mass exodus and the accompanying chaos and distress at Kabul airport appalled citizens worldwide. Yet, as was the case with Syria in September 2015, national political leaders, especially from European Union (EU) member states, adopted an ambiguous discourse, referring to the moral duty to welcome refugees while stressing the need to protect their borders from what they perceive as future ‘irregular’ migration and potential security threats. In response to this repeated emphasis on preventing migration flows, several mayors across the world expressed their desire to welcome Afghan exiles into their cities, notably calling on national governments ‘to immediately open their doors to Afghan refugees and provide the resources needed to facilitate resettlement’. This type of city-mobilisation in favour of exiles results from collective dynamics, institutional constraints and strategic action. Transnational city networks (TCNs) provide a good illustration of such processes, as cities – considered here as collective actors consisting first and foremost of municipal and local authorities, but also of civil society organisations, citizens and interest groups as well as business leaders – connect in order to call for greater recognition of their roles in the governance of migration. Indeed, city networks tend to be positioned as intermediaries between national and supranational institutions – both of which set the rules for migration policies – and subnational governments, which are more involved in the reception of exiles on a day-to-day basis. For instance, in June 2021, several European mayors, members of civil society organisations, representatives of European institutions, and academics participated in the international conference ‘From
{"title":"Special issue: city network activism and the governance of migration","authors":"A. Flamant, Aude-Claire Fourot, Aisling Healy","doi":"10.1080/03003930.2022.2045277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2045277","url":null,"abstract":"In August 2021, the coming to power of the Taliban led to the exile of thousands of Afghan citizens, fearing for their lives. Images of the mass exodus and the accompanying chaos and distress at Kabul airport appalled citizens worldwide. Yet, as was the case with Syria in September 2015, national political leaders, especially from European Union (EU) member states, adopted an ambiguous discourse, referring to the moral duty to welcome refugees while stressing the need to protect their borders from what they perceive as future ‘irregular’ migration and potential security threats. In response to this repeated emphasis on preventing migration flows, several mayors across the world expressed their desire to welcome Afghan exiles into their cities, notably calling on national governments ‘to immediately open their doors to Afghan refugees and provide the resources needed to facilitate resettlement’. This type of city-mobilisation in favour of exiles results from collective dynamics, institutional constraints and strategic action. Transnational city networks (TCNs) provide a good illustration of such processes, as cities – considered here as collective actors consisting first and foremost of municipal and local authorities, but also of civil society organisations, citizens and interest groups as well as business leaders – connect in order to call for greater recognition of their roles in the governance of migration. Indeed, city networks tend to be positioned as intermediaries between national and supranational institutions – both of which set the rules for migration policies – and subnational governments, which are more involved in the reception of exiles on a day-to-day basis. For instance, in June 2021, several European mayors, members of civil society organisations, representatives of European institutions, and academics participated in the international conference ‘From","PeriodicalId":47564,"journal":{"name":"Local Government Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"1017 - 1026"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45727898","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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