The Effect of Local Government Science & Technology Expenditure on Regional Technological Progress: Empirical Evidence from Fujian Province, China

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyuan Wu ◽  
Mingxing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Fujian Province

Technological progress, non-price factors competitiveness, and changes in trade income elasticities: empirical evidence from South Korea and Hong Kong

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Marco Flávio Cunha Resende ◽  
Vitor Leone ◽  
Daniele Almeida Raposo Torres ◽  
Simeon Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
Income Elasticities ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Catch Up

In the balance-of-payments-constrained growth model literature, income elasticities (IEs) are considered as the crucial element determining a country's long-run growth rate. Although the extant literature accepts that technology matters for IEs magnitude, explanations linking technology and IEs magnitude are limited. In this paper, we make use of the National Innovation System (NIS) concept from the Evolutionary School to explain the channels through which the size of a country's IEs is influenced by the level of development of its NIS, which in turn is a channel through which the non-price competitiveness factors work. Additionally, we empirically test the hypothesis that the catch-up allowed by NIS developments achieved in South Korea and Hong Kong improved their IEs over the 1980–1995 period. Our empirical results suggest a link between the level of NIS development and the size of the IEs.

Performance Gaps, Peer Effects, and Comparative Behaviour: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Local Government

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Jäkel
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Conditional Probability ◽  
Peer Effects ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Event History ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

Abstract Centralized inspections face scepticism among local public managers, and voluntary evaluations have become a popular complement. This study uses the Swedish local government benchmarking programme (Kommunens Kvalitet i Korthet) to investigate what correlates with partaking in a benchmarking exercise empirically. This study finds evidence for temporal and spatial clustering: participants cluster geographically at an early stage of the exercise, new entrants tended to attach to existing clusters of participants rather than forming new clusters themselves. From event history analyses this study also finds that the proportion of participants among direct neighbours increases the conditional probability of entering the exercise. This suggests that public managers and local councils mimic the behaviour from nearby councils when it comes to the use of performance evaluations.

Citizen-Assisted Performance Measurement? Reassessing Its Viability and Impact

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 716-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Ammons ◽  
Patrick M. Madej
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Ongoing Support

Citizen-assisted performance measurement (CAPM) was a hot topic just a decade or so ago, promoted by enthusiasts as a useful coupling of the performance measurement and citizen participation movements. The idea of engaging citizens in the design of local government performance measures retains some ongoing support today based mostly on normative assumptions and testimonials. A careful review of the premises of CAPM and empirical evidence from CAPM projects, however, reveals weaknesses in the premises and few surviving measures from CAPM projects. The authors’ findings support the view that citizen efforts would more beneficially be directed upstream of performance measurement, with citizens engaged as focus groups to offer views on their local government’s performance objectives and priorities rather than as designers of performance measures.

Internet-Based Citizen Participation

2012 ◽  
pp. 1050-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Aikins
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Chief Administrative Officers ◽  
Government Websites ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Government Website

This chapter determines whether the deliberative features of local government websites reflect city officials’ beliefs and funding for Internet-based citizen participation. Although the Internet is argued to have interactive potential to bring citizens closer to their governments, empirical evidence suggests many governments have not taken advantage of this potential. A survey was sent to Chief administrative officers of municipalities with websites, and respondents’ government website contents were analyzed and audited against the survey responses. Findings from the audit reveal that in general, the deliberative features of local government websites reflect the beliefs and funding stated in the survey. The technique applied in this research could be a useful tool to investigate the degree of alignment between a government’s Internet website contents and its e-government strategic goals, policy requirements and priorities, etc.

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