Decentralization as a strategy of regime maintenance: The case of Yemen

Clausen, Maria‐Louise

doi:10.1002/pad.1880

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“…Fiscal decentralization has been occurred in many developing countries and has been related to local government performance from Indonesia's experience (Eckardt, 2008), policy instruments in Africa (Prud’Homme, 2003), local budget size in China (Zhang et al., 2016), regime maintenance in Yemen (Clausen, 2020). This study finds that fiscal decentralization trend has been obvious in local bond market.…”

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Fiscal self‐sufficiency, debt policy, and long‐term sustainability in China's emerging local bond market

Shi

Bland

2023

Public Admin & Development

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Using panel data from 155 Chinese provincial‐level governments between 2015 and 2020, this study develops fiscal indicators to measure the sustainability of China's bond market given its institutional context. With these indicators, the research empirically explores the effect of fiscal institutions such as centrally‐imposed debt limits on local governments' debt sustainability. It also investigates the capacity of local governments for self‐sufficiency to meet their debt obligations and maintain long‐term sustainability. We find that debt limits have promoted local debt sustainability while local fiscal self‐sufficiency has had little effect on debt sustainability in the long‐term. The findings provide public finance and policy scholars with an understanding of the effectiveness of fiscal institutions such as debt limits imposed by China's central government.

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Fiscal self‐sufficiency, debt policy, and long‐term sustainability in China's emerging local bond market

Shi

Bland

2023

Public Admin & Development

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“…It is important to note that political-economic motives often underlie a decentralization policy. Also, the central government often benefits from reducing expenditures (Manor, 1999;Clausen, 2020).…”

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The Challenge of Decentralization Policy for Television Broadcasting in Indonesia

RAHAYU

2023

JSP

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This study aims to explain the challenges in the decentralization of television broadcasting in Indonesia, specifically, the role of political transformation over the last 20 years. Three provinces, i.e., Bali, South Sulawesi, and Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, were selected to represent various broadcasting operation characteristics in Indonesian provinces. Focusing on private television broadcasting, the case study examines the challenge of broadcasting decentralization policies in Indonesia. Data were collected via structured interviews involving 37 informants with a good understanding of local television broadcasting. The interviews were conducted in March, April, and July 2017. Meanwhile, secondary data in the form of relevant documents were analyzed using a desk study. Data were collected in two stages: May-September 2018 and November 2020-March 2021. These steps follow the current policy development on broadcasting decentralization. The findings indicate that decentralization faces challenges and that the policy has been tainted by media conglomerates’ economic interests and the central government’s recentralization politics. The economic interests were apparent in the fabrication of capital ownership and the centralization of business management and broadcast program production. The recentralization interests were noticeable through the operation license mechanism in the regions. In sum, Indonesia’s decentralization policy faces perpetual challenges from the surge of capitalization and the centralization of governance.

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“…A local government system does not necessarily contribute positively to service delivery and community participation. Various local government reforms have therefore been manipulated by distrust of and interference from the central authorities (Clausen 2020;Crook and Manor 1998;Gaynor 2014). As a result, public participation in local government is a controversial issue in many countries (Ishii 2017).…”

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Fragile states, decentralisation and the nature of barriers to citizen participation in local government: a view from Pakistan

Ali

2022

SN Soc Sci

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The purpose of decentralisation reforms is to narrow the gap between the public and government and increase public participation in decision-making. However, empirical evidence from developing countries suggests otherwise. A case in point is Pakistan, even though it has a well-structured local government system consisting of three levels of government, district, tehsil and union councils. Nevertheless, Pakistan’s nascent but fragile democracy and the non-democratic nature of decision-making at the state level prevent public participation and as a result do not remove but rather create obstacles to citizens’ involvement in service delivery. This paper therefore argues that citizen participation in Pakistan’s local government system faces more barriers which are imposed by the centralised state rather than removing hurdles to community participation. I demonstrate that having well-structured local governments is not enough for community engagement instead of a nation-state’s strong commitment to pro-community participation. The aim of this study is to identify and examine the barriers to public participation and how they prevent participation in the local government service delivery process, especially when non-democratic countries such as Pakistan introduce local government reforms. A qualitative study was carried out with a questionnaire containing seven open-ended qualitative questions. The thematically analysed results show that the military establishment introduced local government systems which have used local governments to suppress community autonomy and prevent community participation. As there is a patron/client relationship between the central government of Pakistan and the feudal lords and local elites, local elites have indulged in corruption and favouritism which hinder public participation at the grassroots level in the local governments in the province of Sindh, in Pakistan.

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Decentralization as a strategy of regime maintenance: The case of Yemen

Cited by 9 publications

References 49 publications

Fiscal self‐sufficiency, debt policy, and long‐term sustainability in China's emerging local bond market

Fiscal self‐sufficiency, debt policy, and long‐term sustainability in China's emerging local bond market

The Challenge of Decentralization Policy for Television Broadcasting in Indonesia

Fragile states, decentralisation and the nature of barriers to citizen participation in local government: a view from Pakistan

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