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Isabel Stirn - Lokale und regionale Selbstverwaltung in Europa

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Lokale und regionale Selbstverwaltung in Europa

Series: Nomos Universitätsschriften - Recht

Volume 784 2013

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Local Government in England S. 135-139

„… Local Government in EnglandDie englische Lehre vom Self-government hat die Interpretation des …” „… LocalGovernment die local authorities ihre finanzielle Autorität im Wesentlichen vomZentralstaat ab; sie leben vor …” „… : URL:http://www.wuestenrot-stiftung.de/download/local-government (letzter Zugriff: 24.7.2011).588 Wollmann, Reformen in Kommunalpolitik und ?verwaltung, 2008, S …”

Lokale Ebene in Italien S. 131-135

„… : Ismayr (Hrsg.), Die politischen Systeme Westeuropas, 2009, S. 643, 699.134Local Government in EnglandDie …” „… Bereich der Finanzierung des LocalGovernment die local authorities ihre finanzielle Autorität im …” „… : URL:http://www.wuestenrot-stiftung.de/download/local-government (letzter Zugriff: 24.7.2011).588 Wollmann, Reformen in Kommunalpolitik und ?verwaltung, 2008, S …”

Literaturverzeichnis S. 417-440

„… (Hrsg.); Kommentar zum Vergaberecht, 2. Auflage, Frankfurtam Main, 2005.Byrne, Tony; Local Government in …” „… . Auflage, London, 1964.Crawford, Colin; European Influence on Local Self-Government, in: Local …” „… , Peter (Hrsg.); Verwaltungslexikon, 3. Auflage, Baden-Baden, 2002.Elcock, Howard; Local Government …”

Stichwortverzeichnis S. 441-445

„… EMRK 175England, Local Government 135ENTO 376, 379ESF 377Euregios 86, 159, 373, 386, 403 …” „… – Madrider Abkommen 240Lissabon-Urteil 272, 274Local Government in England 135, 155– Historischer …” „… Tschechien 139– Kommunalwahlrichtlinie 168– Local Government in England 135443– Lokale Ebene in Italien …”

Kommunale Verwaltung in Tschechien S. 139-142

„… unwahrscheinlich.Insgesamt gesehen existiert in rechtlicher Hinsicht Local Government in England deshalb, weil die englischen …” „… Kommunen ihre Kompetenzen vom Zentralstaatableiten. Local Government gilt in England mit seiner …”

Kommunale Selbstverwaltung in Schweden S. 151-155

„… englischen Local Government.Historischer HintergrundBereits im frühen Mittelalter traten in der überwiegend …” „… ., veröffentlicht unter: URL:http://www.wuestenrot-stiftung.de/download/local-government (letzterZugriff …”

Vorwort S. 5-20

„… Government in EnglandIV. 135Historischer Hintergrund1. 136Local Government im englischen Staatsaufbau2. 137 …” „… )132Gemeinden, Provinzen und Regionenb) 133Rechtliche Verortung der italienischen Gemeinden3. 134Local …”

Lokale Autonomie als allgemeines europäisches Rechtsprinzip (acquis communautaire)? S. 120-123

„… , veröffentlicht unter: URL:http://www.wuestenrot-stiftung.de/download/local-government (letzter Zugriff …”

Grundlegende Ordnungsvorstellungen S. 35-44

„… des Self-government im englischen Local Government-System wird später ausführlicher eingegangen27. In …” „… desKommunalrechts (Stein/Hardenbergsche Reformen)8, sowie die englische Lehrevom Self-government9. Eher …” „… wahren“21.Rudolf von GneistNach der Lehre vom Self-government, wie sie Rudolf von Gneist vertreten …”

Kommunale Selbstverwaltung in den baltischen Staaten S. 147-151

„… einenGegenentwurf unter anderem zum englischen Local Government.Historischer HintergrundBereits im frühen …”

Lokale Verwaltung in Frankreich S. 123-131

„… , veröffentlicht unter: URL:http://www.wuestenrot-stiftung.de/download/local-government (letzter Zugriff …”

Abkürzungsverzeichnis S. 21-30

„… 1987, S. 66)ELAN European Local Authorities NetworkELER Europäischer Landwirtschaftsfonds für die …” „… Local Administrative Units bzw. lokale Verwaltungseinheiten25LBO BW Landesbauordnung für …” „… . GVBl, S. 366)NGO Non-Governmental Organization26NHS National Health ServiceNJW Neue Juristische …”

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Michael Haus - Transformation des Regierens und Herausforderungen der Institutionenpolitik

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Transformation des Regierens und Herausforderungen der Institutionenpolitik

Series: Modernes Regieren - Schriften zu einer neuen Regierungslehre

Volume 5 2010

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Local Government und Local Governance als Idealtypen des Regierens S. 182-187

„… Öffentlichkeit als ‘Regierende’ und ‘Verantwortliche’ im Staat präsentieren (müssen). 5.2 Local Government und …” „… von local government zu local governance deutlich gemacht hat, ist dieser Wandel im Bereich der …” „… nehmen müssen; zugleich sind solche aus der Masse kommunalpolitischer 183 Tabelle 6: Local Government …”

Literatur S. 324-349

„… Concept of Local Self-government?, in: Ders./Montin, Stig (Hrsg.): Towards a New Concept of Local …” „… Countries, in: Local Government Studies, Jg. 28, Nr. 3: 74-90. Bang, Henrik Paul/Sørensen, Eva (2001): The …” „… . Bogason, Peter (Hrsg.) (1996a): New Models of Local Political Organizing: Local Government Fragmentation …”

Die Institutionalisierung lokaler Selbstverwaltung im demokratischen Wohlfahrtsstaat S. 165-182

„… darauf folgenden Abschnitt soll eine idealtypische Gegenüberstellung von local government und local …” „… local government in gewisser Weise als historische Kompromisse oder Interessengleichgewichte betrachtet …” „… Bestimmung der wohlfahrtspolitischen Koordinationsfunktion als genuinen Beitrag des local government im …”

Vierte Interpretation: Es geht weiter auf verstrickten und umkämpften Pfaden – Governance zwischen Integration und Konflikt S. 295-316

„… government zu local governance. Zusammen mit diesem Wandel ist eine Vervielfältigung von Deutungen über den …” „… Steuerungsversuche Charakteristisch für den Wandel von local government zu local governance ist nach John im …” „… „charismatischbürgermeisterzentrierten“ Formen für einen Ausdruck des Wandels von local government zu local governance (John 2001: 16 …”

Die ersten beiden Phasen: Kommunale Dienstleistungsdemokratie im starken Wohlfahrtsstaat S. 226-244

„… , simultaneously retaining at least the illusion of local self-government“ (Kjellberg 1988: 45). Für Schweden hat …” „… einer bis heute wirksamen „functionalistic ideology which maintains that local governments are first and …” „… administrativer Macht „in favour of local government and within local government in favour of employees …”

Einleitung: Lokale Institutionenpolitik in Schweden als ‘kritischer Fall’? S. 203-207

„… local government zu local governance entlang der von John (2001) ausgewiesenen Dimensionen (s. o …” „… Leitidee und damit auch von Organisationsformen möglich erscheinen und der Wandel von local government zu …” „… local governance eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Diese Narrative verweisen zugleich auf konzeptionelle …”

Einleitung S. 223-226

„… looks at local government in a quite different way form the non-socialist parties. In all sectors of …” „… social programmes, simultaneously retaining at least the illusion of local self-government“ (Kjellberg …” „… institutionell-organisatorisch 69 „Modern local authorities […] participate in the entire reform process in the society“, wie …”

Abschied von ‘Volksheim’ und ‘Wohlfahrtskommune’? S. 212-217

„… time Sweden has moved from detailed regulation of the organization of local government to virtually …” „… Institutionendesigns? Inwiefern zeigen sich in dieser Entwicklung Züge eines Wandels von local government zu local …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-10

„… Politik: Rationalitätsbezüge und Konfliktlinien 177 5.2 Local Government und Local Governance als …” „… Entscheidungssystem und local governance 305 8.4.4 Vermarktlichung – noch einmal betrachtet 308 8.4.5 Stadtteilräte …”

Dritte Interpretation: Es geht immer weiter – Demokratiepolitik als Evolution und institutionenpolitische Läuterung des universalistischen Wohlfahrtsstaates S. 290-295

„… lokale Politik und Verwaltung maßgeblichen Rahmenbedingungen im Sinne eines Wandels von local government …” „… Seite sei es offensichtlich, dass „granting local authorities more discretionary power increased the …” „… zu local governance. Zusammen mit diesem Wandel ist eine Vervielfältigung von Deutungen über den Sinn …”

Erste Interpretation: Alles geht (aber nichts Besonderes mehr) – Das Ende der Reformära S. 282-285

„… ausführlicher diskutiert und dabei in den Kontext des Wandels von local government zu local governance im Sinne …”

Schluss S. 277-282

„… ausführlicher diskutiert und dabei in den Kontext des Wandels von local government zu local governance im Sinne …”

Grundzüge der lokalen Selbstverwaltung in Schweden S. 207-212

„… Organisationsformen möglich erscheinen und der Wandel von local government zu local governance eine zentrale Rolle …”

Schluss S. 318-323

„… , dass eine Analyse des idealtypischen Wandels von local government zu local governance die …”

Governance in Bob Jessops Theorie des kapitalistischen Staates S. 150-159

„… coordinating role for and on behalf of local community interests“ (Jessop 1997: 69f.). Von den zahlreichen …” „… 2002b: 236). Die Stärke von Jessops Überlegungen liegt nicht zuletzt darin, dass sie Formen von local …” „… Ebene das Gewicht von government (hauptsächlich bestehend in lokalen Wohlfahrtsleistungen) zu governance …”

Konzeptionelle Schichten, Ansprüche und Probleme der Governance-Perspektive S. 32-41

„… Po- 3 Vgl. zur „electoral chain of command theory“ für den Bereich des local government bereits …” „… fragmentation is less important than the search for a new story (and associated language) about government which …”

Ein konzeptioneller Rahmen für die Analyse von lokaler Institutionenpolitik S. 187-202

„… reference to the actors who advocate particular values, thereby depoliticizing the process by which local …” „… government is shaped and reshaped“ (ebd.: 6, Hervorhebung M. H.). Der Ausdruck ‘Depolitisierung’ ist hier …”

Kriterien für gutes politisches Institutionendesign? S. 84-97

„… Selbstregierung. Elkin sieht das „design for local government” als zentrale Fragestellung (Elkin 1993b: 138 …”

Vierte Phase: Demokratiepolitik, großstädtische Räume und Regionen S. 264-277

„… . Party government wird zunehmend als Metagovernance verstanden, d. h. als Kohärenzstiftung und …” „… opposite pole is the idea of virtually dismantling the structure at the county level, leaving it to local …”

Dritte Phase: Grenzen der wohlfahrtstaatlichen Steuerung und aufbrechende Deutungskonflikte S. 244-264

„… necessity: the continuously growing and ever more professionalised local governments had become increasingly …” „… Leistungen sichtbar. In den 1980er Jahren kommt es auch in Schweden zu einem Diskurs des ‘governmental …”

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Ralf Thomas Baus, Raoul Blindenbacher, Ulrich Karpen, Ralf Thomas Baus, Raoul Blindenbacher, Ulrich Karpen - Competition versus Cooperation | Wettbewerb versus Kooperation

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Competition versus Cooperation | Wettbewerb versus Kooperation

2007

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Christina Murray Local Government in the South African Constitution S. 211-225

„… Local Level, State and Federal Levels, Supranational Level Local Government in the South African …” „… Constitution 215 Local Government in the South African Constitution Christina Murray Abstract Fast alle …” „… Constitution The 1996 South African Constitution establishes local government as a separate sphere of …”

John Kincaid City Autonomy in the American Federal System S. 233-244

„… , local governments constituted the foundation of U.S. federalism. Many of the 13 original states were de …” „… in 1789 until the 1930s, local governments accounted for the vast majority of all government spending …” „… . In 1929, for example, local governments accounted for 60 per cent of all government spending …”

Galina Kurlyandskaya Intergovernmental Reform in Russia 2000-2006 S. 283-297

„… retained by a regional or local government). Regional and local governments only had the right to change …” „… the federal, regional and local governments; • stable revenue sources have been assigned to each level …” „… of government; • intergovernmental transfers to regional and local governments have been designed …”

Anwar Shah Financing Cities: Lessons from the U.S. and OECD Experiences S. 341-347

„… local governments are simply the creation of higher level governments, denied subsidiarity and self-rule …” „… . There, the problem was soft budget constraints for local governments, since the state and local …” „… , cities are wards of the state playing to the tune called by federal and state governments. They are …”

Ulrich Karpen Metropolitan Regions in German Federalism S. 245-262

„… states like the latter two have local government laws which apply to municipalities and counties. Hamburg …” „… ) local units, cities and counties. Regions may be referred to in terms of their dominant functions. There …” „… regions, there is a convergence of state, regional and local levels. 1 Albers, D. (2006), Die …”

Beniamino Caravita di Toritto The Road to Federalist Government System in Italy S. 195-204

„… government, regional government and local governing bodies. Art. 114 of the revised constitutional text reads …” „… between central government and the regions, thereby constitutionalising the regulatory power of local …” „… : Education, Science, Health, Environmental Protection The Road to Federalist Government System in Italy 197 …”

Lars Peter Feld, Thushyanthan Baskaran The Swiss System of Fiscal Federalism: Lessons for the German Reform Discussion S. 298-320

„… debt-to-GDP-ratios of the federal, the state (cantonal) and the local governments increased since 1990, mirroring …” „… Local Government Finance: Theory and Policy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 292-330; Feld, L.P. (2000 …” „… the Size of Government: Evidence from Swiss State and Local Governments’, CESifo Working Paper 1087 …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-12

„… , Supranational Level Christina Murray: Local Government in the South African Constitution . . . . . . . . . 215 …” „… Government System in Italy . . . . . . . . . . 197 Hans-Peter Schneider: Legislative (und exekutive …” „… Kommunale Ebene, Landes- und Bundesebene, supranationale Ebene Local Level, State and Federal Levels …”

Ralf Thomas Baus, Raoul Blindenbacher Competition versus Cooperation. German Federalism in Need of Reform – A Comparative Perspective S. 24-28

„… a global world, the distribution of powers between the federal government and the Länder as well as …” „… redistribution of powers between the federal government and the Länder should be considered a first step in the …” „… between the federal government and the Länder. The first panel discussed the different types of …”

Autoren und Herausgeber S. 373-375

„… and Local Government at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Kirchhof …” „… . Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service, Director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State …”

Daniel Thürer, Malcolm MacLaren The Conduct of Foreign Relations in a Federal Country – The Case of Switzerland S. 167-174

„… municipalities can make their own decisions in accordance with regional or local priorities. The changed …” „… establish new competences as it prescribes how the different levels of government are to exercise their …” „… with foreign policy must, however, make them a reality. How have the three levels of Swiss government …”

Wolfgang Schäuble German Federalism in the Process of Reform S. 33-36

„… and local level, citizens have more opportunities to become politically involved and make sure that …” „… point was to assign government tasks more clearly while slightly trimming the states’ participation in …” „… federal lawmaking. Strengthening federal structures has nothing to do with provinciality. Government at …”

Theo Öhlinger Legislative and/or Executive Federalism S. 97-103

„… the Land government (Landesregierung), in this instance represents the federal administration at the …” „… Convention.9 It consisted of 70 members (representatives from the Federal Government, the Länder and the …” „… local councils, delegates of interest groups and experts in constitutional law) and was created to allow …”

Volker Kröning Der Einfluss der europäischen Institutionen auf die Bundes- und Länderebene S. 278-282

„… Kröning Abstract Three levels of German government participate in the European decisionmaking process …” „… take on more responsibility, and to improve representation of local interests. The federation is not …”

Cheryl Saunders The Division of Power in the Australian Federation S. 141-156

„… , does local government administer state legislation. Rather, each state has a bureaucracy of its own …” „… legislative power. The normal position, therefore, is that each government administers the legislation enacted …” „… Australian Constitution were modelled.1 Consistent with this model, each sphere of government also has its …”

Alan Trench The United Kingdom’s Devolved Administrations and the European Union S. 263-277

„… welfare, including responsibility for education, health and local government, areas in which the EU …” „… an europäischen Institutionen Impact of European Government on Federal and State Levels …” „… , Participation of Länder in European Government The United Kingdom’s Devolved Administrations and the European …”

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Winfried Böttcher, Johanna Krawczynski - Ein anderes Europa

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Ein anderes Europa

2011

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European Charta of Local Self-Government (1985) S. 208-215

„… 208813 European Charta of Local Self-Government (1985)European Charta of Local Self-Government …” „… citizen; Aware that the safeguarding and reinforcement of local self-government in the different European …” „… self-government The principle of local self-government shall be recognised in domestic legislation, and where …”

European Charta of Local Authorities – Resolution 64 (1968) S. 207-208

„… Self-Government (1985)European Charta of Local Self-Government (Strasbourg, 15.10.1985) Preamble The member States …” „… and reinforcement of local self-government in the different European countries is an important …” „… 207812 European Conference of Local Authorities – Resolution 64 on a Declaration of Principles of …”

Standing Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe – Resolution 187 (1988) S. 219-220

„… RESOLUTION 187 (1988) on the European Charter of Local Self-Government and the European Communities The …” „… Charter of Local Self-Government to ratify it forthwith and calls on the other member states to accede to …” „… of local self-government in the framework of the Community institutions: i. calls on the European …”

Weltweite Erklärung zur kommunalen Selbstverwaltung (1985) S. 215-219

„… the European Charter of Local Self-Government and the European Communities The Standing Conference 1 …” „… Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe – Resolution 187 (1988) Standing Conference of …” „… Local and Regional Authorities of Europe Twenty-third session 15-17 March 1988 RESOLUTION 187 (1988) on …”

Vorbemerkung S. 5-8

„… Authorities – Resolution 64 (1968) 207 813 European Charta of Local Self-Government (1985) 208 814 …” „… ? (1992) 191 811 Europäische Charta der Gemeindefreiheiten (1953) 205 812 European Charta of Local …” „… Weltweite Erklärung zur kommunalen Selbstverwaltung (1985) 215 815 Standing Conference of Local and …”

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Sebastian Eckardt - Accountability and Decentralized Service Delivery

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Accountability and Decentralized Service Delivery

2009

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Local Government Capture S. 55-58

„… . Local Government Capture In all of the literature reviewed so far, there is common agreement that there …” „… mainly from developing countries these approaches make the case for the propensity of local governments …” „… . Taking into account those factors it comes as no surprise that local governments often appear more …”

Making local governments work – Some policy implications S. 221-226

„… , behave the way they do. 1.2. Making local governments work –Some policy implications We expect that …” „… interventions to enhance local government performance in decentralizing environments. National governments …” „… intervene in local government operations to achieve better performance outcomes for basic social services …”

Policy Content: The Local Governance Framework S. 95-121

„… Estimation based on data from 294 local governments.In line with the expanded expenditure responsibilities …” „… resources to sub-national governments. Second, it substantially increased the responsibilities of local …” „… governments and following from that increased the local civil service. Third, it largely abolished central …”

Revisiting the hypotheses S. 208-221

„… to improve the quantity and quality of public services provided by the local government.For the …” „… non-governmental representatives were able to articulate their demands clearly and forcefully to local governments …” „… corruption in Solok’s local government administration. The three years before that the government of Solok …”

Political Accountability S. 176-201

„… rent-seeking behaviour in local governments, to assess whether budgets and policies serve public or private …” „… interests, and to compare this across local governments. An evaluation of the role of vested interests and …” „… . Whereas the case of Alor shows an example how budgetary decisions taken by the local government might …”

A stylized model of local governance S. 76-89

„… government are agents of the elected politicians, the local administration is the agent of the local …” „… accountability of local governments. The model broadly builds upon the following assumptions: Assumption 1: The …” „… , rent-seeking, and performance in local government operations. It will generate a number of specific hypotheses …”

Democratic Decentralization S. 51-55

„… (1995) argue, for this mechanism to work a high degree of transparency in local government affairs …” „… (which might far example be provided through such tools as benchmarking or local government rankings) is …” „… democracy. When the downward shift of fiscal resources and responsibilities to local governments is …”

Discussion S. 58-61

„… literature varies in the extent to which incentive structures of local governments are made subject of …” „… incentives and accountability of local governments. Instead, they merely assume that in representative …” „… accountability of local governments as given. The literature on inter-jurisdictional competition explicitly …”

Policy context: The dynamic of decentralization reforms S. 90-95

„… qualitative empirical evidence from case studies in four selected local governments in Indonesia. 2. Setting …” „… focuses on the effect of decentralization on local governments this section will concentrate on the parts …” „… socio-economic development across Indonesia’s local governments. Per capita incomes in the 20% richest districts …”

Inter-jurisdictional Competition S. 48-51

„… . However, local accountability might not occur automatically and giving authority to local governments that …” „… evidence on local governments in developing countries indicates that local governments continue to act in …” „… of attention to political incentives of local governments and how they impact local government …”

Government Performance S. 164-176

„… 164 4.4. Government Performance What are the main issues to be tackled by the local governments …” „… section, all four local governments have invested significant shares of their budgets into the education …” „… the national government’s approval to open a new school could take up to two years. Now the local …”

Preference Heterogeneity and External Effects S. 43-48

„… their impact upon local government performance. At the end of this chapter I will summarize these …” „… performance of local governments has brought about a considerable and still growing body of theoretical and …” „… accountability (political incentives of local governments) and local government performance. Given the exhaustive …”

Summary S. 121-123

„… contest in local elections. 2.3. Summary Roughly five years have elapsed since major local government …” „… associated with local government performance in delivering public services, including the technical and …” „… administrative capacities of local governments, on resources and local budgetary autonomy, and eventually they …”

The fiscal impact of decentralization S. 149-164

„… important because the fiscal changes implied by Law 25/1999 are at the core of local government performance …” „… . What resources local governments have at their disposal and what they spend them on will crucially …” „… to improvement in local government performance. The following chapter will review the major fiscal …”

Empirical Research Context S. 23-25

„… management of local government officials’ political incentives and the existence of institutions fostering …” „… local accountability of governments are necessary preconditions for effective local government …” „… their impact upon local government performance and public service delivery. The unfinished research …”

Bibliography S. 227-238

„… 107/2000 tentang Pinjaman Daerah(Government Regulation on local borrowing). Jakarta, The Government of …” „… ." Quarterly Journal of Economics 112: 1027-1056. Andrews, M. (2003). Voice Mechanisms & Local Government …” „… Effect, and Why? Washington, D.C., World Bank. Andrews, M. and A. Shah (2003). Assessing Local Government …”

Theoretical Research Context S. 21-23

„… Research Context The functioning of democratic local governments has long merited attention in both the …” „… Shah (2003) point out “Decentralization is common in many developing countries. Local governments are …” „… political system. First, the empowerment of local governments is supposed to bring authorities in more …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-12

„… across Local Governments in Indonesia Nomos1. Auflage 2008© Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2008 …” „… recent transfers. What is striking, in fact, is that many of the country’s local governments – again …” „… Indonesian local governments really do in practice, however, if, how and why they carry out their functions …”

Dependent Variable – Defining Government Performance S. 25-28

„… decentralization improves local government performance and public service delivery. 4. Research Design The …” „… performance of local governments in delivering public services changed since the implementation of …” „… are the evolving patterns of local governments’ political accountability and how do these patterns …”

Introduction S. 19-21

„… accountability between local governments, the public sector and the community. The local public sector becomes …” „… changes. 6 Democratic decentralization must not only empower local governments through increased resources …” „… governments in Indonesia. To what extent have various local governments been able to manage the greater …”

Explaining Performance: Case evidence and hypothesis S. 201-207

„… outstanding example of a well-run and clean local government. In 2005 Gamwan Fauzi, the head of the region …” „… Levismon, LPPI, Solok, Interview May 25. 202 environments and accountability of the local governments? To …” „… well-developed local press helped to reduce the information asymmetry between local government and the community …”

Case selection and research strategy S. 142-147

„… administrative staff; and organizational differences in local governments. In addition, there multi-collinearity …” „… local governments selected for comparative case studies. Case study research calls for selecting a few …” „… research strategy Given that there are over 400 local governments in Indonesia, selecting four governments …”

Control Variables S. 32-33

„… performance of local governments. Therefore, the analysis will be broaden by considering other factors known …” „… governments. Taking fiscal capacity as given is meaningful because resource constraints at the local level are …” „… efforts and resource mobilisation of local governments could be seen as a performance dimension. Indonesia …”

Key Hypotheses S. 33-34

„… resources and performance of local governments we would expect richer districts with higher per capita …” „… governments in Indonesia have inherited cost structures from formerly central staff transferred local …” „… in my research: H1: The degree of local governments’ political accountability to their constituents …”

Research Methodology, Problems of Measurement, and Data Sources S. 34-40

„… political accountability mechanisms. H2: In the long run, local governments face incentives to propagate …” „… model of local government behaviour in the theoretical part. 4.5. Research Methodology, Problems of …” „… Measurement, and Data Sources The primary empirical units of analysis in this research are local governments …”

The Selected Districts in Context S. 147-149

„… indicators designed to capture essential differences across local governments. Although the aggregated scores …” „… of local governments in Indonesia with four cases, the four selected districts represent quite a …” „… implied by Law 25/1999 are at the core of local government performance. What resources local governments …”

Explaining Performance: Empirical Results and Hypotheses S. 134-142

„… political accountability relate to differences in the performance of the local governments? After having …” „… disperse and therefore weaken political accountability and political incentives for the local governments …” „… poverty might pose particular challenges to local governments and public service delivery. At the same …”

Variables and Indicators S. 124-134

„… performance. The indicator measuring performance of local governments (dependent variable) employed in our …” „… are assigned to the local governments could vary across sectors. Some tasks (in some sectors) could be …” „… the validity of the index in measuring underlying differences in the performance of local governments …”

Overcoming Agency Problems- the Role of Political Incentives S. 69-76

„… government are agents of the elected politicians, the local administration is the agent of the local …” „… accountability of local governments. The model broadly builds upon the following assumptions: Assumption 1: The …” „… incentives are properly designed a performance focus within the government and bureaucracy can be instilled …”

Independent Variable – Defining Political Accountability S. 28-32

„… accountability systems—from other factors that may cause variations in the performance of local governments …” „… explanation for variations in the performance of local governments. Taking fiscal capacity as given is …” „… significant decentralization on the revenue side, tax efforts and resource mobilisation of local governments …”

Overview S. 43

„… their impact upon local government performance. At the end of this chapter I will summarize these …” „… performance of local governments has brought about a considerable and still growing body of theoretical and …” „… accountability (political incentives of local governments) and local government performance. Given the exhaustive …”

Agency Theory S. 61-64

„… systems create incentives for local governments to improve performance in public service delivery …” „… interrelationships of decentralization, political accountability, and the performance of local governments. The main …” „… question to be addressed is how the degree to which local government accountability can be established …”

Overview S. 90

„… qualitative empirical evidence from case studies in four selected local governments in Indonesia. 2. Setting …” „… focuses on the effect of decentralization on local governments this section will concentrate on the parts …” „… use a stastitical approach to government performance and accountability. Chapter 4 presents …”

List of Abbreviations/Glossary S. 15-16

„… Regent/Head of local government DAK Dana Alokasi Khusus (Special (Earmarked) Transfer) DAU Dana Alokasi Umum …” „… Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan (Political Party) PEMDA Pemarintah Daerah (Local/Regional Government) 16 PKB …” „… Daerah (Local Budget) BAPEDA Badan Pembangunan Daerah (Regional Development Planning Board BAPPENAS Badan …”

The Empirical Model S. 123-124

„… performance and accountability of local government since decentralization and raise issues for further …” „… interest groups at the local level. 3. A Quantitative Approach The following chapter will provide …” „… quantitative empirical evidence on the relationship between political accountability and performance of local …”

Behavioural Assumptions S. 40-42

„… analysed available local planning and policy statements such as the annual local development plans, annual …” „… accountability reports, budgets plans, local regulations, and the like. Suffice to say, I employed secondary …” „… sources in the form of existing applied and theoretical literature on both the Indonesian case and local …”

Delegation and Controllability in Political Contracts S. 66-69

„… political dynamic of any local governance system determines how well aligned the incentives for government …” „… , agency loss is likely to occur if government behaviour is not constrained. However, as is intuitively …” „… clear, the political contract between citizens and the government is far more incomplete than most …”

Acknowledgements S. 13-14

„… deep impression on me. On behalf of all respondents I thank the mayors of the four local governments …”

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