scholarly journals From European forestry strategies to implementing local policies: a study on public forest workers in the Tuscany region of Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
C. Fagarazzi ◽  
C. Sergiacomi ◽  
E. Marone
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Implementation ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Forest Worker ◽  
Local Policies ◽  
Forestry Policies ◽  
The Eu

Even though forests represent almost half of the EU territory, the implementation of forestry strategies is delegated to local government institutions. This study proposes an overview of the main European forestry strategies, national (Italian) guidelines and local implementation instruments (in Tuscany). This approach made it possible to identify the actual executors of forestry policies, i.e., the public forest workers. The paper provides a framework of the recent dynamics of regional forestry instruments, their effects on available financial resources and their technicaloperational consequences. Furthermore, Tuscan public forest worker profiles were defined through an online questionnaire. The results show that it is essential to activate constant monitoring of local actions in order to verify the effectiveness of superordinate forestry policies.

scholarly journals PENGARUH OPINI AUDIT DAN TEMUAN AUDIT TERHADAP TINGKAT KORUPSI (STUDI PADA PEMERINTAH DAERAH DI INDONESIA TAHUN 2017)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Riri Safira Syahrir ◽  
Elly Suryani
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Audit Opinion ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Audit Opinions

This study aims to investigate the effect of audit opinion and audit findings on the level of corruption in the Regional Government in Indonesia in 2017. The object in this study is the local government included in the Public Integrity Survey conducted by the Corruption Eradication Commission in 2017. The sampling technique used in this study was saturated sampling with a total sample of 19 local government institutions. The method used in this analysis is multiple linear regression using IBM SPSS 25. Based on the results of the test the significance of audit opinions and audit findings simultaneously evaluating the level of corruption. Partially, audit opinion variables and negative audit findings on the level of corruption

Conditions and prospects for cooperation between Polish and Ukrainian local governments

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-241
Author(s):  
Mariusz W. Sienkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
The Eu

The fact that Poland and Ukraine share a border, the convergence of the political goals of the peoples of both countries, and the constant efforts towards the development of democracy and decentralisation of public life determine the need to intensify cooperation in various areas of the functioning of society and the economy. An important sphere of cooperation is the public sector, in particular at the level of local government. The local government cooperation of both countries was already visible at the beginning of the social and political transformations after 1990. The development of this cooperation, with varying results, took place in the 1990s and, to an even greater extent, after Poland’s accession to the European Union. In the last three decades, local and regional communities in Ukraine have become an important partner for Polish local governments, both at the local and regional levels. The local government cooperation that has been implemented is based on the diversification and multidimensionality of forms and models. Some result from legal regulations, while others are based on mutual experiences, previous contacts, and sympathies of public authorities. The aim of the study is to analyse and present the conditions and forms of Polish-Ukrainian local government cooperation. The aim is also to show the barriers to cooperation and to define proposed solutions to improve partner contacts of territorial units. The local government cooperation of the two countries is undoubtedly hindered by the fact that Ukraine is not a member of the EU, and often by mutual misunderstanding and non-acceptance of historical experiences. On the other hand, common goals at different levels of social, public, and economic life are a significant factor motivating parties to increase cooperation and achieve a synergistic effect thanks to it.

scholarly journals Charakterystyka dochodów własnych budżetów gmin w Polsce w ujęciu przestrzennym w latach 2004–2011 w procesie instytucjonalizacji stosunków międzynarodowych

2013 ◽  
pp. 27-51
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Jarosiński
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Policies ◽  
Economic Foundations ◽  
The Eu

The paper concentrates on budgetary income of Polish gminas. The text is part of larger study on Polish local government budgetary policies. In the period beginning in 2004 and ending in 2011 no significant shrinking of disparities between regions have been observed and in some cases they have even increased. At the same time income of local government in Poland increased. Main reasons why the disparities persists are twofold: 1. different dynamics of development and 2. different economic foundations. Although the disparities in income between gimans increased, incomes of all gimnas increased at the same time. This allowed for implementation of new local policies which led to new impulses for growth, financed either by gminas or by the EU

Political rights of foreigners from third countries in Poland. Quantitative research results

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (58) ◽  
pp. 173-187
Author(s):  
Иванна Килюшик
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Public ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Government Level ◽  
The Eu

The article presents the issue of political inclusion of foreigners from third countries at the level of local government in Poland. Local political rights in Poland apart from citizens are only available to foreigners-citizens of EU countries. In many EU member countries, all foreigners have political rights at local government level if certain conditions are met. To understand whether such a solution is possible in Poland, the public opinion was examined. The article presents the results of the research and provide them for analysis. The research results indicate rather that Poles accept the extension of certain political rights to a group of foreigners from outside the EU.

scholarly journals Communicative model as an institutionalization factor for a local self-government in the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Rustеmovna Fatikhova ◽  
Elmira Mansurovna Ziiatdinova
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Russian Federation

The paper investigates the communicative model’s influence on the local self-government development in Russia. The research’s relevance lies in the role of communication in the institutionalisation of local government in Russia and is determined by the weakness inherent in local government institutions here. The nature of local self-government in the Russian Federation is contradictory. Local self-government bodies are closely connected with the state power and dependent on it, and at the same time they are legally excluded from the system of state power bodies. The internal political events of the first half of 2020 indicate a new turn in the development of local self-government in the Russian Federation. According to the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation adopted following the referendum of July 1, 2020, local self-government and state authorities are part of the unified public authority system in the Russian Federation, while at the same time local self-government bodies may be vested with certain state powers, provided that the material and financial resources necessary for the exercise of such powers are transferred to them. The implementation of the delegated powers to local self-government bodies is controlled by the state.

scholarly journals The Effect of Bureaucratic Reforms Implementation for Optimizing of Governance in Indonesia (Focus on the Public Service Innovation in Local Government Institutions)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Elvira Mulya Nalien ◽  
Teguh Ilham
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Government ◽  
Bureaucratic Reforms

The deep-rooted pathology in public services and the high demands on its quality improvementencourage the government to focus on service functions, especially during the Joko Widodoand Jusuf Kalla Administration. In line with Nawacita (nine programs), their electionpromise, and the bureaucratic reforms planning of 2015-2019, the improvement of publicservice delivery becomes one of the most important issues. This paper uses the descriptivemethod and inductive approach with interviews, observation, and documentation as datacollection techniques. The result shows that the Public Service Innovation Competitionheld by the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reforms (PANRB)can generate innovations that succeeded in bringing changes and greatly affect theimplementation of the Bureaucratic Reforms to the optimization of governance in Indonesia,especially in local governments.Keywords: innovation, public service, bureaucratic reforms, good governance

scholarly journals Collaboration among Local Government Institutions in Achieving Public Information Openness

2019 ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Rozidateno Putri Hanida ◽  
Bimbi Irawan ◽  
Syamsurizaldi Syamsurizaldi ◽  
Rahmatika Syaufi
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Open Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Government Work ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Law

Open Government is one of the main roads for accelerating development and ensuring sustainable development.One of the strategies to encourage open government is by implementing what is the mandate of the Law on public information openness well.For citizens, this law means a guarantee to citizens to obtain public information in order to increase their active role in governance.As for government institutions, the law provides the obligation to government institutions to open access to public information, actively (without preceded by the request), and passively (with the request by the requestor) to the community.However, when citizens try to access the public information, it is not uncommon for the answer to be obtained is "This is the system", "The procedure is like this", "I am not authorized".This is the background of research on how collaboration among local government institutions in Padang Panjang Municipality in realizing public information openness.With qualitative descriptive method, through the analysis of data in ethics and emic found that Local Government of Padang Panjang Municipality developed collaboration among government institutions that marked by the cooperation, interaction, compromise of some related elements to encourage public information openness.One of the ways implemented by Local Government of Padang Panjang Municipality is by the establishment of Management Officer of Information and Documentation or Pejabat Pengelola Informasi dan Dokumentasi (PPID) or consisting of Main PPID (PPID Utama) and Asssisytance PPID (PPID Pembantu).For the future, it is required a clear Standard  Operating Procedure for the local government work unit to network each other in encouraging the openness of public information, so the impression that the responsibility of creating public information openness in Padang Panjang Municipality is only a function of PPID can be eliminated.

Analyzing the importance of financial resources for educational effectiveness

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Guimaraes Resende Martins do Valle ◽  
Ricardo Corrêa Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Organization Performance ◽  
Educational Effectiveness ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Organization Performance

Purpose – Much has been done in the public organization performance management field and there are some established theories that account for what would improve performance, but there is little strong empirical evidence about the determinants factors to performance in developing countries. This paper aims to contribute to the knowledge in this area by providing some empirical evidence about the importance of management and resource for the local government performance. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a cross-sectional investigation carried out with a sample of Brazilian municipalities. Data come from reliable sources, namely official databases. In order to ensure causality, regression and correlation analysis was carried out with the data. Educational outcomes were chosen as the dependent variable for measuring performance. Findings – The analysis indicates that financial resources are paramount in producing performance to the extent that resource availability increases educational effectiveness, and dependence on intergovernmental transfer of financial resources reduces the effectiveness a great deal. Some other issues, such as mayoral quality have little or no importance upon performance. Originality/value – The study corroborates some established ideas and challenges others. An example of the latter is the notion that the quality of political leadership (the mayor) is a determinant factor for performance. An example of the former is that more money is likely to represent better performance if the local government is able to raise money for itself instead of relying solely on transferences from upper tie authorities.

scholarly journals Collaboration among Local Government Institutions in Achieving Public Information Openness

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
RozidatenoPutri Hanida ◽  
Bimbi Irawan ◽  
Syamsurizaldi ◽  
Rahmatika Syaufi
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Open Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Government Work ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Law

Open Government is one of the main roads for accelerating development and ensuring sustainable development.One of the strategies to encourage open government is by implementing what is the mandate of the Law on public information openness well.For citizens, this law means a guarantee to citizens to obtain public information in order to increase their active role in governance.As for government institutions, the law provides the obligation to government institutions to open access to public information, actively (without preceded by the request), and passively (with the request by the requestor) to the community.However, when citizens try to access the public information, it is not uncommon for the answer to be obtained is "This is the system", "The procedure is like this", "I am not authorized".This is the background of research on how collaboration among local government institutions in Padang Panjang Municipality in realizing public information openness.With qualitative descriptive method, through the analysis of data in ethics and emic found that Local Government of Padang Panjang Municipality developed collaboration among government institutions that marked by the cooperation, interaction, compromise of some related elements to encourage public information openness.One of the ways implemented by Local Government of Padang Panjang Municipality is by the establishment of Management Officer of Information and Documentation or Pejabat Pengelola Informasi dan Dokumentasi (PPID) or consisting of Main PPID (PPID Utama) and Asssisytance PPID (PPID Pembantu).For the future, it is required a clear Standard Operating Procedure for the local government work unit to network each other in encouraging the openness of public information, so the impression that the responsibility of creating public information openness in Padang Panjang Municipality is only a function of PPID can be eliminated.

The Reporting Entity in Private-Public Accounting Harmonisation. Is Control Enough for the Local Government Consolidated Financial Statements?

2017 ◽  
pp. 5-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Carini ◽  
Laura Rocca ◽  
Claudio Teodori ◽  
Monica Veneziani
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Consolidated Financial Statements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Financial Accountability ◽  
Public Sector Accounting ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Reporting Entity

The European Commission initiated a discussion on the expediency of using the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), based on the IAS/IFRS, as a common base for harmonizing the public sector accounting systems of the member states. However, literature suggests that accounting is not neutral with respect to the economic, social and political dimensions. In the perspective of evolution of the accounting regulation outlined, balanced between accountability, with the need to represent phenomena for reporting pur-poses, and decisionmaking issues, which concentrates on the quantitative importance of the values, the paper aims to analyse the effects of the application of different criteria for the definition of the reporting entity of the local government consolidated financial statements (CFS). The Italian PCA 4/4, the test of control and the financial accountability approaches are examined. The evidence that emerged from the case studies examined identifies several criticalities in the Italian PCA 4/4 and support the thesis that the financial accountability approach is more effective in providing a complete representation of the public resources entrusted to and managed by the group, whereas the control approach better approximates quantification of the group results in terms of central government surveillance. The analysis highlights the importance of the post implementation review period and the opportunity to contextualize the adoption of the consolidated financial statement in the broader spectrum of the accounting harmonization process, participating in the process of definition of the European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS).

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