Decentralization & Local Government
In: Social policy & administration: an international journal of policy and research, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 157-170
ISSN: 0037-7643, 0144-5596
In: Social policy & administration: an international journal of policy and research, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 157-170
ISSN: 0037-7643, 0144-5596
In: Social policy and administration, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 157-170
ISSN: 1467-9515
AbstractCriticism of the achievements of the Welfare State have led to more emphasis on the role of local government in providing new styles of welfare services. This has presented a challenge to Labour party authorities in Britain and can be seen as an aspect of conflict with Conservative party central government. The article analyses the effect of placing more emphasis on local service delivery to which much publicity has been given. Voluntary agencies have also been given an increased role, for a variety of motives. This raises questions about local democracy, answerability, and user‐control, which go beyond mere party polemics and involves fresh discussion of the future role of local government.
In: Public choice, Band 56, Heft 3, S. 259
ISSN: 0048-5829
In: Public choice, Band 56, Heft 3, S. 259-269
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 204-223
ISSN: 1472-3425
In this paper we apply both cross-section and panel analysis to the relationship between fiscal and political decentralization and government quality. We find that fiscal decentralization improves government quality but not if it is accompanied by political decentralization. The negative impact of political decentralization on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and government quality persists when controlling for the degree of democratic maturity across countries.
In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 609-632
ISSN: 1468-0491
Despite growing interest in decentralized governance, the local government systems that comprise the most common element of decentralization around the world have received little systematic attention. This article, drawing on the first systematic index of decentralization to local government in 21 countries, demonstrates a close relation between Social Democratic welfare states and an intergovernmental infrastructure that in important respects ranks as the most decentralized among advanced industrial countries. This empowerment of local government in these countries was less an outgrowth of Social Democratic welfare state development than a preexisting condition that helped make this type of welfare state possible.
In: Public choice, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 63
ISSN: 0048-5829
In: Canadian journal of economics and political science: the journal of the Canadian Political Science Association = Revue canadienne d'économique et de science politique, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 57-69
Vast changes have been wrought in the British governmental machinery during the past quarter-century—alterations in scope, structure, and administrative procedures made necessary in part by the rigours of economic depression and war and further intensified by the demands of an emerging welfare state. Of these changes one of the more significant has been the development by the central government departments of a complex and intricate system of regional organization to decentralize many of their more important functions. Today "administrative regionalism" characterizes the administration of fifteen major government departments. On January 1, 1956, 16,318 non-industrial civil servants (the national total was 636,771) were stationed outside Whitehall in regional offices established in eleven "regional capitals" and were working (with minor exceptions) in uniform geographical areas in accordance with established government policy. Several hundreds of thousands of the other civil servants were employed in local offices, such as post offices, employment exchanges, national insurance offices, pensions offices, district works offices, and so on. Some departments have regional offices and local offices; others have regional offices only.Decentralization of national programmes is unavoidable if governmental machinery is to function at all effectively. This is true not only in democracies, but also in countries under authoritarian rule, such as the Soviet Union. The administrative problems encountered in the decentralization of governmental functions are many. The purpose of this article is to examine Britain's experience in order to secure answers to a number of important questions. Why has it been necessary for the British to establish a system of regional administration? To what extent can the responsibilities of a national government be decentralized? What form does such decentralization take—policy formation, or administration and execution, or both? What type of administrative organization has been developed on the regional level? How is the work of a particular ministry in each of the eleven regions co-ordinated and to what degree have procedures been devised for standardizing work programmes throughout the country? Within a given region, how are matters that concern two or more departments dealt with?
In: Public choice, Band 62, Heft 1
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 22, Heft 5
ISSN: 0002-7642
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 22, Heft 5, S. 525-536
ISSN: 1552-3381
In: Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, Band 24, S. 57-69
In: Environment & planning: international journal of urban and regional research. C, Government & policy, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 204-224
ISSN: 0263-774X
In: Arbeitspapiere und Materialien / Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen, Band 22
"Zu den Charakteristika des Transformationsprozesses in Rußland gehört die konsequente Dezentralisierung des politischen Systems. Die Etappen dieses Prozesses sind Gegenstand der vorliegenden Untersuchung. Dabei werden gezielt nur jene Entwicklungen thematisiert, die seine allgemeinen Tendenzen wie auch seine Spezifik deutlich werden lassen. Mit einer knappen Übersicht über die für die Dezentralisierung in den Regionen bedeutsamen politischen Entscheidungen wird zugleich ein erster Periodisierungsversuch unternommen." (Textauszug)
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 289
ISSN: 0276-8739