Whistleblowing: Perception of Public Officials in Local Government

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-136
Author(s):  
장용진 ◽  
조태준 ◽  
Sujae Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Officials

In the Mayor We Trust? Trust as the Micro-Foundation of Complementary Politico-Administrative Relations in Local Governments

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Howard Grøn ◽  
Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Communication Climate ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Unstable Environment

This article investigates trust between politicians and public officials in local government. Beginning with Svara’s claim that such relations are characterized by complementarity, we point to the importance of trust as the micro foundation for these relationships. Applying a mixed-methods strategy, we investigate a number of factors we expect to be related to the level of trust between politicians and public officials, as perceived by the latter. We find that the communication climate and a clear distribution of tasks correlate positively with trust, whereas an unstable environment correlates negatively with trust.

Re-thinking corruption in post- 1950 urban Britain: the Poulson affair, 1972–1976

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER JONES
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Activity Cycles ◽  
Local Councillors

ABSTRACT:The Poulson affair is central for the agenda of post-1950 British urban history. Particularly, it suggests that corruption is a key facet within the politics of planning and the rebuilding of Britain's urban environment. Poulson provides a useful route into an examination of the place of corruption because of the scale of his activity both in terms of volumes and types of constructions he planned. His networks and the geographical concentrations of his work also provide a regional dimension. Perceptions of Poulson have been fashioned by investigative and satirical journalism and television. A re-evaluation in light of official government sources and Poulson's autobiography raise important issues concerning the ethics of public officials and private businessmen; and the consequences of the interaction of public and private markets. Poulson's business was driven by the twin engines of government funding and the activity cycles of the construction industry. The fluctuation in his planned commissions provides a useful barometer of the planning environment. Poulson's demise exposed the complex relations between business, civil servants, ministers and local councillors contributing to growing public distrust of the workings of government. Finally, it is suggested that the affair was a critical factor in re-shaping central–local government relationships.

scholarly journals ‘Removing Barriers’ and ‘Creating Distance’: Exploring the Logics of Efficiency and Trust in Civic Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Eric Corbett ◽  
Christopher A. Le Dantec
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Relational Work ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Civic Technology ◽  
Close Distance ◽  
Do So

<p>Oriented around efficiency, civic technology primarily aims to remove barriers by automating and streamlining processes of government. While removing barriers is vital in many matters of governance, should it always be the aim of civic technology? In our ongoing ethnographic research to understand the work of community engagement performed by public officials in local government, we have observed how this orientation around efficiency in civic technology can inadvertently create distance in the relationships between citizens and governments. In this article, we discuss how an orientation around trust could open a space for civic technology that primarily aims to close distance in the relationships between citizens and public officials. We do so by first providing an account of how trust functions in the work of public officials performing community engagement, calling attention to where and when efficiency is at odds with the importance of relationship building between public officials and citizens. We build on ethnographic findings and a series of co-design activities with public officials to develop three strategies that operate under the logic of trust: historicizing engagement, focusing on experience, and mediating expectations. In all, by focusing on trust and the relational work of closing distance, civic technology can move towards addressing the growing crisis in confidence being faced in democracies.</p>

scholarly journals Empirical Analysis of Local Government Financial Capacity: Focusing on Financial Index Analysis

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Jae Sung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Financial Analysis ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Financial Capacity ◽  
Korean Ministry ◽  
Financial Index

This research explores the financial status of local government, analyzing 234 local governments using 10 budget-related financial analysis indices published by the Korean Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs. This paper makes a correlation analysis of the index of local governments and measures the financial capacity of local government, looking for the developmental plan of financial capacity through a regression analysis for finding out factors affecting the resulting value. The results shows there was statistical significance in the entire score, such as the number of public officials, the number of civic groups, population, and local tax per capita. Local tax per capital was found to be most influential, followed by population.

scholarly journals The Prospect of Accountability in Local Governance in Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hari P. Dhungana
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Government Accountability ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Government

Government accountability is intrinsic to democracies, as citizens can choose public officials through their popular vote and accordingly exercise some control and oversight over the officials. But elections held in periodic intervals do not allow the scrutiny of the decisions and activities that are conducted on a daily basis. This article examines how to confront this challenge of holding the governments to account, by looking into local governance in Nepal, where citizens have limited knowledge of the government decisions, activities, procedures followed, and their outcomes. This article is developed from the review of policies and laws and semi-structured interviews with elected leaders, civil service personnel, and other stakeholders in select local governments in Nepal. It argues that accountability in local government requires attention not only to laws, but also the practices of civic interaction and the willingness of elected officials and citizens in these engagements. It starts by establishing how the country’s new Constitution of Nepal (2015) espouses a local social contract in view of its division of jurisdictions. It then identifies and analyses the main approaches and tools on government accountability. These encompass broad constitutional provisions to specific legal, institutional and technocratic measures to hold officials to account. It then reveals recent local level experiences around the use of accountability tools and shows that the legacy of widespread collusion and misuse of power continues to be a bottleneck. It concludes that there is a need to foster greater civic demands on accountability and foster measures for deliberation at the municipal level on a more regular basis. Overall, local government accountability should be envisioned as a work-in-progress pursuit and should be coupled with systems of local planning and implementation and vitalization of local democracy.

scholarly journals Personality traits as predictors of citizen engagement with local government

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor G. Hugg ◽  
Kelly LeRoux
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The U.S

Do citizens' personality traits affect their likelihood of interacting with local public officials? Using psychology's preferred approach for operationalizing personality — the "Big Five" trait framework — and two nationally-representative survey data sets from the U.S., we examine this question, and find that: (1) citizens who score higher on openness and extraversion traits have an increased likelihood of attending a local government board meeting; and (2) personality traits that predict the likelihood a citizen will contact a local government official vary based on whether that official holds an elected or non-elected position. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for citizen engagement scholarship, and outline ways to extend this research in future studies.

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