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Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
Leaders, institutions, or context? Explaining local government compliance with transparency regulations in Romania
The paper proposes a contextualized approach to local government transparency and its determinants. It starts by briefly discussing the distinction between local government compliance with transparency regulations and broader/more substantial local government transparency. A context-dependent measure of local government compliance with transparency regulation is built for the Romanian case and...
Sunday, May 7th, 2023
Decentralization and control of corruption in Chile: Alternatives for accountable autonomy in local governments
The decentralization of the subnational government level has been one of the main debates in Chile in the past twenty years. Nevertheless, only modest progress has been achieved in this direction, and Chile still remains among the most centralized countries in the OECD. This paper explores different alternatives for fiscal...
Sunday, October 16th, 2016
Participation in the Administration of Local Welfare Systems in Spain
The study, carried out from 2012 to 2015, has produced a typology of the mechanism, organisms and processes of civil participation in the autonomic system of social welfare in Spain. The study also performed a comparative analysis of cases, and assessed the impact, in terms of contributions of the Councils,...
