Measuring Local Autonomy

Ladner, Andreas; Keuffer, Nicolas; Baldersheim, Harald; Hlepas, Nikos; Swianiewicz, Paweł; Steyvers, Kristof; Navarro, Carmen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95642-8_2

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“…Proper autonomy is determined by the nature and structure of relations between different (usually hierarchically configured) levels of the government. Ladner, Keuffer and Baldersheim (2016) follow the definition given in Lindström (1998) focusing on local autonomy conditions that cover circumscribed territory, authoritative power over the citizens and directly elected decision-makers. In literature, two terms connected to local autonomy could be found.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In principle, the analyzed empirical research uses the same characteristics to measure the above-mentioned categories (e.g. Ladner, Keuffer and Baldersheim, 2016). Therefore, the paper employs the term financial autonomy to cover the research objective.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They investigate local financial autonomy in Finland and Poland. Ladner, Keuffer and Baldersheim (2016) measure local autonomy in 39 countries in the period 1990 -2014 observing its increase. In the field of taxation, they mention that local governments in Lichtenstein, Germany and Switzerland have the highest power to tax.…”

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Financial Autonomy of Local Governments in the Slovak Republic: A Panel Data Investigation

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Autonomy of local governments consists also in the financial autonomy. In the SR, the municipal financial autonomy is importantly influenced by dominant position of shared tax in the municipal tax revenue. When considering only own revenues (own tax and nontax), the financial autonomy of municipalities is low. In this paper the financial autonomy of municipalities in the SR is analyzed in the period 2005 -2019. At the base of the Gini index, inequalities in financial autonomy are analyzed. Higher inequalities are observed in case of the exclusion of shared tax, what confirms that the shared tax serves as a channel of horizontal fiscal equalization. Employing the panel regression, determinants of financial autonomy are analyzed. The negative relationship is observed in case of the population growth, use of returnable financial resources, financial crisis and also the portion of shared tax on municipal tax revenue, when considering the financial autonomy based on own resources.

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“…A review of the vast subject literature shows that the local government in Poland, including the municipal self-government, is characterized by a relatively wide range of decision and organizational autonomy. According to the research of an international team led by Andreas Ladner, Nikolas Keuffer and Harald Baldersheim, Poland is in the group of countries that provide local self-governments with a relatively wide range of autonomy, as evidenced by the indication of 25 points and more according to the Local Autonomy Index/LAI (Ladner, Keuffer, Baldersheim, 2016;cf. Ladner et al, 2019).…”

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The biggest Polish cities in response to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The perspective of municipal self-government administration

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2021

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The aim of the article is to analyze the activities of municipal self-government administration aimed at counteracting the destructive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic during the co-called first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020–June 2020). The article focuses on Polish cities with poviat rights. It presents the results of a nationwide survey in which the representatives of 47 city offices participated. It is supplemented with the analysis of the content of documents (laws, regulations and recommendations) and the elements of a comparative analysis. The conducted research procedure does not allow to confirm the hypothesis. There is no scheme of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic which consists of “bottom-up” activities of municipal self-government carried out in the areas of urban policy which are most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It turns out that most of the activities carried out are “top-down” activities that fit – as the respondents claimed – with the solutions adopted by the central government administration.

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“…The Nordic countries are generally recognized for high-quality public sectors (Greve, Rykkja and Laegreid 2016). In addition, local governance in both Norway and Denmark is characterized by an extensive political decentralization and along with the other Nordic countries enjoy the highest level of autonomy on almost all variables (Ladner, Keuffer & Baldersheim 2016).…”

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Strengthening local political leadership through institutional design: how and why

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Winsvold

2019

Local Government Studies

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Measuring Local Autonomy

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Financial Autonomy of Local Governments in the Slovak Republic: A Panel Data Investigation

Financial Autonomy of Local Governments in the Slovak Republic: A Panel Data Investigation

The biggest Polish cities in response to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The perspective of municipal self-government administration

Strengthening local political leadership through institutional design: how and why

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