Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2279954
Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska
This paper adopts a transaction costs (TCs) approach towards analysing the transactions of local governments in the service sector. The objective of the paper is to expand the analysis of the TCs c...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2282564
Fredrik Malmberg, Thomas Karv
Multiple-mandate holding, i.e., the holding of more than one directly elected mandate simultaneously on different government tiers, is a controversial practice with potential consequences on politi...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2270439
Søren Kjær Foged, Kurt Houlberg, Jacob Ladenburg, Jeppe Elholm Madsen
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2264798
Dag Ingvar Jacobsen
A good cooperative relationship between politics and administration is essential to good governance and efficient decision making in public organisations. This study of the cooperative relationship is based on the notion that politics and administration is intertwined, making interaction between politicians and administrators necessary. The study focuses on how political fragmentation affects cooperative relations between politics and administration. Using data from both Norwegian mayors and municipal directors (436 respondents from 303 municipalities), the effects of three different types of political fragmentation are investigated: number of political parties in council and the steering coalition, the Laakso-Taagepera index, and ideological distance between parties. The findings indicate that cooperative relationships get worse with increasing ideological distance and improves with political fragmentation in the council under the conditions of divided government (political parties in the steering coalition spanning both sides of the left–right dimensions). Implications for the study of political–administrative relations are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2258811
Hemin Choi
ABSTRACTPeople moving from smaller to larger cities often do so in search of better economic opportunities. But what motivates migration from larger to smaller cities, which are acknowledged to offer fewer available jobs and prospects? This study’s empirical findings, in the context of South Korea, reveal that an individual’s willingness to move to a smaller-sized, secondary city is positively associated with the perception of local public goods there, but, surprisingly, not significantly aligned with job opportunities. However, this valuation differs by marital status and family-life-cycle stage. In addition, our results illustrate the importance of non-employment factors: dissatisfaction with current residency and place ties (e.g., length of previous residence and psychological place attachment) are strong factors motivating internal migration intention to smaller secondary cities. We discuss the implications of these findings for local government and policy makers in small cities that aim to attract new young and middle-aged adult residents.KEYWORDS: Internal migrationResidential mobilityLocal public goodPlace attachmentLocal government Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/12/16/americans-are-less-likely-than-before-covid-19-to-want-to-live-in-cities-more-likely-to-prefer-suburbs/#fn-31709–1Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Hallym University Research Fund, 2021 (HRF-20211-008).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2245340
Laurence Bherer, Imrat Verhoeven
This is an introduction to the special issue on facilitating citizen engagement in interactive governance. In this special issue, we focus on facilitators: the professionals that support and organi...
这是关于促进公民参与互动治理的特刊的介绍。在本期特刊中，我们关注促进者:支持和组织……
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2258796
Jongmin Shon, Sunjoo Kwak
ABSTRACTWith the recurring economic crises, the literature on fiscal savings behaviour has expanded its scope from state governments relying on budget stabilisation or rain-day funds to local governments mainly using general fund balances. While many studies have explored the determinants of local savings behaviour, few have taken fiscal interactions among local governments into account. To fill out this gap, this study explores whether spatial interdependence in fiscal slack exists horizontally between counties and vertically across counties and municipalities through the unreserved fund balance of local governments in New York State from 1996 to 2016. The empirical findings indicate that horizontal interdependence in fiscal slack among county governments exists in the short-run, while vertical interdependence is observed across counties and municipalities in the long-run.KEYWORDS: local fiscal slackunreserved fund balancefiscal interdependencehorizontal and vertical fiscal interactionsspatial analysis Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. In particular, the Antideficiency Act Amendments of 1982 (ADA) has triggered government shutdowns and imposed institutional restrictions on the federal government’s ability to stabilise the economy.2. Interchangeably used with fiscal savings and slack resources, the term fiscal slack generally refers to the pool of resources available to a government in excess of what is necessary to produce a minimum level of services (Jacob and Hendrick Citation2012, 17). Fiscal slack is usually accumulated in the forms of unreserved fund balance at the local level and budget stabilisation funds or rainy-day funds at the state level.3. In this study, we express spatial effects in local fiscal slack using such neutral terms as fiscal interactions and interdependence as our study is not designed to identify potential sources of the interrelationships (e.g., spillovers, yardstick competition, mobility-based competition). Instead, we theoretically infer the mechanisms of fiscal interdependence using concepts such as spillovers, mobility-based or yardstick competition, and policy learning or emulation in the theoretical background section.4. The Tiebout hypothesis, commonly recognised as the origin of the mobility-based competition model, assumes that residents have perfect mobility and information on each local government’s tax rates and spending levels; thus, residents have incentives to choose and migrate to local governments that provide their preferred fiscal packages (Tiebout Citation1956). As a result, local governments come under pressure to compete with other local governments to prevent such mobile resources that provide tax bases from leaving and attract new ones.5. Among the few, Guo and Wang (Citation2017) found that a Florida county government’s decision on an unreserved general fund balance level is affected by not only its own millage rate and reliance on inter
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Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2022.2052855
Aleš Kudrnáč, E. Vejchodská, Lenka Slavíková
ABSTRACT Scholars and practitioners endorse public participation in the decision-making process as enhancing the health of democracy, justice, and effectiveness of policy outcomes. To sustain or even increase the number of participants in the long run, it is crucial to start raising a new politically active generation already during their youth and even early adolescence. This article presents School Forums as an extracurricular participatory method involving early adolescents (11–15 years old) in decision-making concerning their school and municipality. We made a field experiment on a sample of 480 Czech secondary school pupils to examine the potential of School Forums to enhance prerequisites for youth’s political engagement. Our results revealed a positive effect of School Forum attendance on the sense of internal political efficacy and interest in local affairs. The results suggest a high potential of participative extracurricular programmes in raising a new generation of politically active citizens.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2250266
Alexandre Mayol, Stéphane Saussier
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2241371
Zhaoteng Zeng, Xiao Yu
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