scholarly journals Samorząd terytorialny jako uczestnik komunikacji społecznej

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryszard KOWALCZYK
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The Political ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Political Foundations

The author considers local government as a participant of social communication, mainly by means of its public communications. He emphasizes two fundamental forms of public communication, formal and informal. He touches upon the political foundations of local government information policies, which implement a specific political vision of the authorities. The author concludes by saying that in the field of information policy a unit of local government cannot be treated as a passive executor of statutory tasks (in their formal and legal aspects) but should rather be perceived as an active creator that runs its information policies on the basis of its own local policy (the political and legal aspects).

Web Accessibility and Transparency for Accountability

2017 ◽  
pp. 140-166
Author(s):  
Maria José Angélico ◽  
Amélia Silva ◽  
Sandrina Francisca Teixeira ◽  
Telma Maia ◽  
Anabela Martins Silva
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Government Accountability ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Inclusive Concept ◽  
Automated Tool

Local government is a political power close to citizens and constitutes a mainstay of democracy. Because of their mission, the guidelines promoted by local government must be embedded in strategies of accountability and public communication. In that sense, it is worthwhile to ask if “local government accountability is being an inclusive concept?” In Portugal, transparency of municipalities is being accessed through the Municipality Transparency Index (MTI). The study aim was to investigate whatever MTI measures accessibility. This study examined the availability of local government information on the website for a sample of 86 Portuguese municipalities and presented the results of a quantitative evaluation of the web accessibility based on W3C guidelines, using an automated tool. Based on the main concepts of transparency and accessibility, it explored static association between MTI and web accessibility. This study contributed to the discussion about transparency as a social value and is of great importance for local policy makers and civic movements in favor of disabled people.

Web Accessibility and Transparency for Accountability

2020 ◽  
pp. 1579-1605
Author(s):  
Maria José Angélico ◽  
Amélia Silva ◽  
Sandrina Francisca Teixeira ◽  
Telma Maia ◽  
Anabela Martins Silva
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Government Accountability ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Inclusive Concept ◽  
Automated Tool

Local government is a political power close to citizens and constitutes a mainstay of democracy. Because of their mission, the guidelines promoted by local government must be embedded in strategies of accountability and public communication. In that sense, it is worthwhile to ask if “local government accountability is being an inclusive concept?” In Portugal, transparency of municipalities is being accessed through the Municipality Transparency Index (MTI). The study aim was to investigate whatever MTI measures accessibility. This study examined the availability of local government information on the website for a sample of 86 Portuguese municipalities and presented the results of a quantitative evaluation of the web accessibility based on W3C guidelines, using an automated tool. Based on the main concepts of transparency and accessibility, it explored static association between MTI and web accessibility. This study contributed to the discussion about transparency as a social value and is of great importance for local policy makers and civic movements in favor of disabled people.

Institutions of Information Access and Constraint

2012 ◽  
pp. 247-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannine E. Relly
Keyword(s):  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Government Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
China And India ◽  
History Of

This chapter examines institutions of information access and the potential for information asymmetry in China and India, both of which have recently adopted access-to-information regulations and legislation, respectively. An examination of these two countries largely is a study of most-different cases. The chapter uses the framework of institutionalism to follow the history of government information policy in both nations and to examine measurements of the political, cultural, and economic environments in which access-to-information legislation is adopted, implemented, enforced, and used by the public.

scholarly journals Samorząd terytorialny miasta Kalisza. Doświadczenia minionego dwudziestolecia

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Agnieszka ŻMURKIEWICZ
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Political System ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

The reinstatement of local government at the level of the district in Poland in 1990 has resulted in the actual empowerment of local communities, while the local governments have become able to define the goals of local policy that are in line with the expectations of local communities. The local government of Kalisz has taken advantage of the new opportunities to improve the living conditions and standard of living of its citizens since it was instituted. Over the years, due to changes in the political system, related to the establishment of counties, the local government of Kalisz has received new operating opportunities, implementing projects at the level of both districts and counties. The political transformation was complemented by the changes in the election principles of the executive, which has significantly improved the efficiency and effectiveness of the President of Kalisz. The activities of local government have been concentrated on the increasing of social integration by means of taking maximum advantage of local assets and potential. In order to achieve these goals promotional instruments have been employed to encourage foreign investors to investment in Kalisz. A significant part of the local government’s activities concern its longstanding international cooperation with towns in Western, as well as Central and Eastern Europe.

Traditionalism and politics: A case study of Northern Nigeria

1967 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. O. Dudley
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
High Time ◽  
The Political ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
The North ◽  
The Right

In the debate on the Native Authority (Amendment) Law of 1955, the late Premier of the North, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto, replying to the demand that ‘it is high time in the development of local government systems in this Region that obsolete and undemocratic ways of appointing Emirs’ Councils should close’, commented that ‘the right traditions that we have gone away from are the cutting off of the hands of thieves, and that has caused a lot of thieving in this country. Why should we not be cutting (off) the hands of thieves in order to reduce thieving? That is logical and it is lawful in our tradition and custom here.’ This could be read as a defence against social change, a recrudescence of ‘barbarism’ after the inroads of pax Britannica, and a plea for the retention of the status quo and the entrenched privilege of the political elite.

scholarly journals The political hourglass: opportunistic behavior in local government policy decisions

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Emilio J. de la Higuera-Molina ◽  
Marc Esteve ◽  
Ana M. Plata-Díaz ◽  
José L. Zafra-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Opportunistic Behavior ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Local Government Policy

scholarly journals With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Consequences of Populists in National Government for Policymaking in Local Government

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Fred Paxton
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
National Government ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Multilevel Perspective ◽  
Radical Right Parties ◽  
Newspaper Data

Abstract Despite increasing research into populist parties in power, their impact on subnational institutions has been neglected. Taking a novel multilevel perspective, this article inquires into the policy consequences of populist radical right parties (specifically, the FPÖ and Lega) in local government, and the effect of their simultaneous participation in national government. The article shows the expansion of exclusionary policy that follows their concurrent presence in national and local government. The process that leads from national government entry to local policy influence is traced using interview and newspaper data. The article argues that the influence of central parties over these ‘showcase’ localities is rooted in different multilevel governance configurations. These vary cross-nationally according to two factors: the strength of mayors’ linkages with higher government levels in the different institutional settings and, due to the different extent of party nationalization, the strategic value of the municipality to the central party.

The Political Foundations of Post-communist Regimes

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 524-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCUS J. KURTZ ◽  
ANDREW BARNES
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Foundations
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