Politicisation but not Responsiveness: Preferences and Experiences of New Zealand Councillors

Haidar, Ali; Reid, Mike; Spooner, Keri

doi:10.1080/10361146.2011.595388

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“…It should also perhaps be mentioned here that the responses of the NSW councillors that answered our survey support very closely the responses found in similar studies of New Zealand councillors (Haidar et al. ), and in those from Victoria, Australia (Pullin and Haidar ). This similarity of responses across two of the largest states in Australia and in New Zealand further enhances the validity of findings of the current study.…”

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Neutral – Neither Trustees nor Hired Guns: The Experiences and Preferences of Local Government Councillors of NSW Australia

Haidar

Spooner

2017

Aust J Public Adm

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This paper reports on the preferences and experiences of the councillor level of New South Wales (NSW, Australia) local government, concerning the public service values that guide the council staff working under a politicised employment relationship. The results of the study show that councillors perceive council staff to be as largely neutral in their behaviour as they expect them to be. The paper further reports that the council staff (in the view of councillors) do not politically respond to any unreasonable demands made by elected officials or act as the trustee of the public interest in competition with them. Data for this study were collected through interviews, a survey, and from secondary sources.

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Neutral – Neither Trustees nor Hired Guns: The Experiences and Preferences of Local Government Councillors of NSW Australia

Haidar

Spooner

2017

Aust J Public Adm

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“…They found that political parties received adverse outcome for implementing a centrally controlled wrong local government reform. Haidar, Reid, and Spooner (2011) carried out an empirical study on New Zealand local government politicisation. They found that the majority of councillors preferred to influence council officers.…”

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Political Hostility and Local Government Crisis in Bangladesh: Ruling Party’s Supremacy and Opposition Party’s Costs of Being Outside of the State Power

Uddin

2017

South Asian Survey

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Bangladesh has a history of political unrest and supremacy of the ruling party. Recently, representatives of the local government were suspended for being accused in cases of political violence. The ruling party is defining the suspensions as a legal process; on the contrary, the opposition political parties are claiming it as political hostility and a way of controlling local governments. There are shortages of research on contemporary political challenges and its consequences. Thus, this study considered local government representative suspensions as a case to exemplify the political hostility and local government crisis in Bangladesh. This study also demonstrated some theoretical points to frame the conceptual thoughts, likewise explained the status and some historical illustration of governmental intrusion over local government. Besides, this study applied the qualitative method to discover the research queries. Consequently, the analysis outlined substantial political supremacy and hostility in Bangladesh and its adverse impact on local governance.

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Auckland, New Zealand – fair game for central party politics

Webster

Asquith

Rohan

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Local Government Studies

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Politicisation but not Responsiveness: Preferences and Experiences of New Zealand Councillors

Cited by 3 publications

References 54 publications

Neutral – Neither Trustees nor Hired Guns: The Experiences and Preferences of Local Government Councillors of NSW Australia

Neutral – Neither Trustees nor Hired Guns: The Experiences and Preferences of Local Government Councillors of NSW Australia

Political Hostility and Local Government Crisis in Bangladesh: Ruling Party’s Supremacy and Opposition Party’s Costs of Being Outside of the State Power

Auckland, New Zealand – fair game for central party politics

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