Composite Indicator of Social Responsiveness of Local Governments: An Empirical Mapping of the Networked Community Governance Paradigm

Maksimovska, Aleksandra; Stojkov, Aleksandar

doi:10.1007/s11205-019-02063-6

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“…On the whole, the theoretical discussions suggest that, by providing spaces for direct participation, decentralization remedies the ailments of representative democracy and effectively connect participation, decentralization, and efficiency (Andrews and De Vries 2007;Masvaure 2016). Hart (1972) and Maksimovska and Stojkov (2019) explain that decentralization not only ensures that decisions are reached democratically but that it offers citizens a double gain of both participation and responsive policy outputs. In the ensuing discussion, I seek to ascertain how these theories are manifested in decentralization practice in developing countries.…”

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Decentralization and Pro-poor Participation in Ghana: Unmasking the Barriers to Inclusive Grassroots Development

Be-ere

2022

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Donors have strongly advocated decentralization on the grounds that it broadens the participation of citizens in development processes, thereby increasing government responsiveness to their needs. Although there have been studies seeking to establish the veracity of this claim, they remain weak on two fronts. One, while wealth differentials affect citizen participation, these studies approach citizens as a homogenous group. Two, participation is mostly viewed narrowly—participation in elections. Drawing on empirical data from Ghana’s decentralization reform, this paper addresses these gaps by questioning how pro-poor citizen participation in decentralized development planning has been. I argue that although Ghana’s decentralization was propagated on championing pro-poor grassroots participation in governance and development, in reality, participation is elitist and has failed to reflect the voices of the poor. My findings demonstrate that the participation structures and processes used in local development planning are unfavourable to the poor in many respects. Elite and representative participation is promoted to the detriment of broad citizen participation. This exclusion is resulting in surging apathy of citizens towards the district assemblies—institutions hitherto trusted as their development champions. This paper concludes that the poor will remain voiceless despite decentralization unless the structural barriers to their participation are tackled in decentralization design and praxis.

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Decentralization and Pro-poor Participation in Ghana: Unmasking the Barriers to Inclusive Grassroots Development

Be-ere

2022

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“…Besides corruption, great attention has been paid to other topics like (good) governance and government quality (e.g. Kosack and Fung, 2014; Yousaf et al ., 2016; Maksimovska and Stojkov, 2019; Bisogno and Cuadrado-Ballesteros, 2021), trust in government and citizens' satisfaction (e.g. Kim and Oh, 2008; Park and Blenkinsopp, 2011; Grimmelikhuijsen and Knies, 2017; Alon-Barkat, 2020), and democracy issues (e.g.…”

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Transparency in public administrations: a structured literature review

Cuadrado‐Ballesteros

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Guillamón

2023

JPBAFM

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PurposeLiterature about transparency in public-sector organizations has been attracting the attention of scholars for the last two decades. This study reviews the existing literature with the intention of creating a description of the state of the art, categorized by geographical areas, levels of government, topics, and methodologies.Design/methodology/approachThe authors have developed a structured literature review following a rigorous protocol. The initial search was launched on 25 April 2022 on Scopus and Web of Science, resulting in 3,217 articles. After removing duplicates and studies that did not meet all the inclusion criteria specified in the review protocol, the final sample includes 956 articles from 1991 to 2021.FindingsThe analyses show a considerable increase in studies since 2005, especially in the last two years, when 30% of the publications have been produced. Most of the studies analyze the national/central level of government. Many authors compare different countries, while other scholars focus on specific countries, overall, the USA and the UK. The local level of government has also been widely studied, especially in the Spanish and Chinese contexts. The most frequently used methodologies are quantitative and empirical techniques, and the most common topics are those associated with accountability.Originality/valueThis study uses a huge sample (956 articles over the period 1991–2021), which has never been used before, to examine the literature on transparency. The structured literature review facilitates the identification of gaps that can be filled by future studies. These include analyzing transparency in specific geographical areas like Africa, Asia, and Latin America, studying transparency at different levels of government, especially at the regional and federal levels, and providing comparative studies and case study collections.

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“…With the attention paid to social governance by governments, research centred on the construction of evaluation systems of social governance performance has also developed rapidly (Maksimovska & Stojkov, 2019; Tan, 2014). However, compared with objective evaluation indicators, emphasis on public‐centred subjective evaluation is an obvious feature of Chinese social governance.…”

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The adjustment of social trust and Internet use on cognitive bias in social status: Perspective of performance perception

2022

Asian J of Social Psycho

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People in different social statuses have different perceptions due to differences in cognition. Combined with the characteristics of public behaviour and cognition, this study examined the impact of the widespread cognitive biases in social status on performance perception. This study used the ordinary least squares model to verify that the cognitive bias in social status has a significant positive impact on the perception of social governance performance. At the same time, a moderated mediation model was constructed to verify that social trust plays a partial mediating role in the influence mechanism of cognitive bias in social status on the perception of social governance performance. The use of the Internet significantly inhibited the influence of cognitive bias in social status on the perception of social governance performance. Although it also weakened the influence of cognitive bias in social status on social trust, the moderating effect on the mediating effect is not obvious. This study verifies and analyses the internal relationship and mechanism of social status cognition deviation and perception of social governance performance from multidisciplinary dimensions, which enriches the social cognition theory of social status, and expands the research on the perception of social governance performance.

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Composite Indicator of Social Responsiveness of Local Governments: An Empirical Mapping of the Networked Community Governance Paradigm

Cited by 6 publications

References 52 publications

Decentralization and Pro-poor Participation in Ghana: Unmasking the Barriers to Inclusive Grassroots Development

Decentralization and Pro-poor Participation in Ghana: Unmasking the Barriers to Inclusive Grassroots Development

Transparency in public administrations: a structured literature review

The adjustment of social trust and Internet use on cognitive bias in social status: Perspective of performance perception

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