The Determinants of Local Government's Financial Transparency

Political determinants of fiscal transparency: a panel data empirical investigation

“…While some contributions do not find any effect of ideology on fiscal disclosure (James E. Alt et al, 2006;Ríos et al, 2014) others support the opposite. Piotrowski and Van Ryzin (2007) show that citizens' ideology matters for transparency of local governments, Guillamón et al (2011) find that the right-wing ideology of municipal ruling party negatively affects transparency and Sol (2013) finds a similar result. Indeed this provides support to the argument by Ferejohn (1999) according to which left-wing governments enhance transparency to defend a larger public sector.…”

“…On the one hand, papers focusing on within country fiscal transparency and its determinants, based on regional or local data (looking at recently released studies, Spanish data were analyzed by: Esteller-Moré and Polo Otero (2012); Gandía and Archidona (2008); García and García-García (2010); Guillamón, Bastida, and Benito (2011);Sol (2013), U.S. State-level data were considered by James E. Alt et al (2006); Chinese data were investigated by Deng, Peng, and Wang (2013); New Zealand data were taken into account by Laswad, Fisher, and Oyelere (2005); Brazilian States were analyzed in Zuccolotto and Teixeira (2014)). On the other hand, country-level analyses (among those recently released: Andreula and Chong (2015); de Renzio and Angemi (2012); Harrison and Sayogo (2014); Ríos et al (2014); Wehner and de Renzio (2013), which are definitely less widespread.…”

Transparency in Portuguese Local Government: A Study of its Determinants

“…As the linear regression model has been widely adopted (e.g., Guillamón, Bastida and Benito, 2011;Vicente, Benito andBastida, 2013 andCruz, 2014) for specifying econometric models that explain the determining factors of local authority transparency, the same method is chosen in this study. More specifically, the multiple linear regression model is applied by the Ordinary Least Squares method since we expect that the various (independent) variables may explain the local authority transparency index.…”

How Does Good Governance Relate to Quality of Life?

“…Transparency in the public sector has been the object of analysis in numerous papers, which also examine its drivers (see, for instance, [37][38][39][40][41][42]. Some research has focused specifically on the relationship between transparency and governance, studying the role of information disclosure in shaping a better government, improving the design of public policy (help identifying goals), or reducing corruption [43][44][45][46][47].…”