scholarly journals Interventions and intersections: institutional environment and local level autonomy in LEADER. A comparative study

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-131
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Brooks ◽  
Katalin Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Autonomous Operation ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

In 2010, when hope emerged that the new conservative government would improve the governance of the LEADER Programme, the Naturama Alliance, a co-operative network of seven Hungarian LAGs, issued a Declaration that summarised procedural issues to be addressed by a revision[1]. After introducing the alliance, the first chapter was entitled “Decentralisation and Autonomy”, indicating the direction of the desired shift towards a more autonomous operation. The LEADER Programme is scrutinised in this article from the point of view of autonomy and local democracy, exploring to what extent these are linked with or distinct from higher level governance transformations towards decentralisation or recentralisation. Theoretical approaches derived from rural and government studies are interpreted in the first sections of the paper, exploring the debate regarding the correlation of autonomy and local democracy and the way it is manifested in LEADER. Most authors regard LEADER as a promoter of local democracy and identify a positive correlation between democracy and an enhanced local autonomy. However, a consensus among scholars also seems to be unfolding from these studies suggesting that the scope of ‘LEADER democracy’ is mostly narrow, restricting participation to more resourceful social groups due both to the ‘thematic filters’ of the Local Development Strategy and to ‘procedural filters’, such as capacities allocated to the staff for animation and assistance to overcome difficulties of application. The empirical research background of this article is provided by two case studies, which were conducted in 2018-2019, one in England (Northumberland Uplands) and one in Hungary (Balaton Uplands), two states with complex recent histories and trajectories in terms of devolution of governance to lower levels and local autonomy. The secondary interpretation of these case studies focuses on the degree of participation and autonomy of LAGs. The analysis reveals that the degree of autonomy (and to some extent of participation) declined in both countries in the last iteration compared to the 2007-13 programming cycle. It has also been uncovered that rather than the ‘post transition’, recentralised Hungarian context, it was the British institutional system and governance tradition that permitted more top-down intervention and less autonomy for the LAGs.     [1] A NATURAMA Szövetség Akciócsoportjainak javaslatai az UMVP III. IV. tengelye intézkedéseinek hatékonyabb megvalósítása érdekében. [Suggestions of the NATURAMA Alliance for the more effective implementation of III-IV axes of the RDP], 2010. http://leadercontact.com/images/stories/https___leaderkontakt.pdf

scholarly journals Complementary currency systems as a source of endogenous development of localities

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (No. 10) ◽  
pp. 477-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Zagata
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Local Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Complementary Currency

The paper tackles the issue of regional and social development. From a sociological point of view, it focuses on the phenomenon of complementary currency systems. The analysis shows that money, as a social institution, has got certain features, which have an impact on economic behavior of people. Establishing a currency on the local level, which would circulate as a complement of the national currency, brings certain social benefits to local society. Nowadays, there are many complementary currency systems all over the world, including Europe. The paper attempts to answer the question, how they can contribute to the local development.

scholarly journals Relationship between spatial and development planning at the local level in the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Branislav Bijelić ◽  
Dejan Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Current Topic ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Basic Hypothesis ◽  
Republika Srpska

The mutual relationship between spatial and development planning at the local level is a very current topic that has concrete consequences for development processes in local government units in the territory of Republika Srpska (RS). Although it is still unregulated from the legislative point of view, local development planning is much more present in practice, which is primarily manifested in the almost complete coverage of the territory of the RS by local development strategies. The connection of these documents to spatial and urban plans has not been treated in an appropriate way, which leads to a certain degree of their mutual inconsistency. The basic hypothesis of this paper arises from this statement, and that is that the lack of a clearly defined connection with spatial planning in the methodology of drafting local development documents leads to the inconsistency of these documents as the final result. As an auxiliary hypothesis, the assumption will be investigated that a large discrepancy in the coverage of the territory of the Republika Srpska between local development strategies and spatial plans of local government units also contributed to this inconsistency.

scholarly journals Key factors of successful preparation and implementation of projects: Empirical evidence from local self-governments in the Republic of Serbia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Slađana Savović ◽  
Dragica Petrović
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Quality Development ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The purpose of paper is to identify factors that are of particular importance for the preparation and implementation of projects in local self-government units. The survey was conducted on the sample of local self-governments in the Republic of Serbia by using a structured questionnaire. The research results showed that the key factors for successful preparation and implementation of projects, ranked by importance, are the following: existence of a quality development strategy at the local level based on the appropriate national strategy, adequate competencies of the employees for the preparation and implementation of projects, ensuring a sufficient level of financial resources for pre-financing and co-financing projects, and establishing partnerships with organizations from other sectors. The results of study may be important for understanding ways to improve the current situation, with regard to the preparation and implementation of projects. The research showed that special organizational units for project management should be established in those local self-governments where such units do not exist, encouraging them to continuously work on the preparation of proposal for different projects. Also, before launching official calls for proposals, it is important to work on improving the local development strategy, in order to, depending on the gaps identified in terms of employees' knowledge and competencies, continuously try to enhance them.

scholarly journals Can public intervention improve local public sector economic performance? The analysis of Special Economic Zones in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (53) ◽  
pp. 221-245
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kopczewska
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Economic Zones

AbstractBoosting the local economic growth and cohesion policy may be supported by using the public intervention. The local governments may benefit directly and indirectly from the place-based policy implemented as Special Economic Zones (SEZ). SEZ directly increase the employment and the number of firms, while, indirectly, they can raise the local public sector financial performance in the long run by increasing revenues from personal and corporate income taxes. This article assesses the efficiency of this policy at the local level in the context of an institutional environment and inter-agent local diffusion. It also uses the statistical methodology based on the comparison of the empirical density distributions of the economic and financial indicators within the institutional groups to detect the global shift or divergence or convergence patterns. This article examines the Polish experience of public intervention in 1995–2016 with 14 SEZ located in more than 350 different locations. It proves that in general, the financial and economic situation of the municipalities with SEZ did not improve. An institutional analysis of the SEZ operating conditions indicates that the weak operating requirements for SEZ firms together with a poor location cannot constitute a catalyst for local development.

scholarly journals Strategy for the Development of Tourism as a Tool for Planning at a Local Level: the Example of Karlino Commune (West Pomeranian Voivodeship)

Turyzm ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Daniel Szostak ◽  
Zbigniew Głąbiński ◽  
Tomasz Duda
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Tourism Economy

The study aims to analyse the correlation between planning tourism development at the local level and the development of the space that is being planned. Another goal is to determine the role of the local authorities (of the Karlino commune – gmina) in the implementation of strategic activities and the integration of various local beneficiaries around such activities. Further it will analyse how elaborating and implementing tourism development strategies may contribute to the local tourism economy and indicates the role and place of strategic planning in the process of creating and developing the tourist potential of a commune with particular emphasis on Karlino. The paper also discusses the tourism policy of Karlino’s local government as well as the strategic goals to be implemented and indicates its tourism development directions. The following research methods have been applied: expert method, observation method (using the inventory technique, physical inventory of the elements of the analysed space and actions taken), monographic method, document research, diagnostic survey analysis (using the survey technique of institutions from the examined area: Karlino commune, the communes of the Białogard powiat, the municipalities of the Association of Towns and Communes in the Parsęta Valley), and a critical literature review. The case of Karlino commune and its strategic activities in the field of tourism indicates that planning constitutes one of the most effective tools for local development. Such activity particularly shows that the commune can and wants to direct its socio-economic development based on optional (rather than obligatory) activities focused around the strategic use of endogenous resources. The paper indicates strategic action directions based on an inventory of such available endogenous resources. It shows how the local tourism economy may benefit from a tourism development strategy.

Systemic Evaluation of the Threats to the Strategy of Technological Development of Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
A. A. Nikonova
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Education And Society

The article is devoted to the study of factors that inhibit the creation of knowledge and technologies, as well as usage and diffusion in the Russian economy and that pose the threats to the technological development of the country. The study is based on the system economic theory methodology, which involve system analysis methods studying the economy and society as an integrated socio-economic system in its unity and mutual dependence of key subsystems. This approach is aimed to receive evaluation reflecting the real static and dynamic picture of all sectors that contribute to the creation of innovation: production, monetary systems, institutional environment, science, education and society. The risk zones are depicted in the diagram of the strategic planning and governance inherent Russian practice. From a systemic point of view, the conclusions are that the objective system evaluation should be in the basis of the strategy. Inadequate quality of planning, ignoring system linkages and interactions in decision-making, use of incorrect data as well as other defective governance actions pose a significant threat to the development of the Russian Federation. The directions for further research in order to reduce the risks of technological development strategy are proposed in the paper. The proposals concern improvement in both evaluation methods and the metrics of the socio-economic system characteristics, which can give the truth picture of the system, and the concept of strategizing changes in non-stationary economy.The author declare no conflict of interest.

scholarly journals Local development strategies without strategic thinking: Lost in between politicians' games, administrations' rigidity and planner's depression

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-400
Author(s):  
Danijela Milovanović-Rodić
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Strategic Planning Process ◽  
The Development Strategy ◽  
The City

A large number of different strategies at the central, regional and local level have been done in the last decade in Serbia. Studies on their quality show that quite a number of strategic documents meet the standards in their form, but in terms of the content, they do not have a clear strategy and strategic projects, they overlap and are poorly intercoordinated. The paper identifies and discusses the stages and steps in the strategic planning process, that are crucial for formulating long-term sustainable development solutions for a specific territory and the improvement of its citizens' lives. Its main thesis is that the local strategies lack strategic thinking, i. e. that the solutions are not based on its products. Attitudes about the causes of the lack of the strategic in the strategies are illustrated with a specific example: the planning process and the content of the Development strategy of the City of Pančevo.

scholarly journals The concept of community and the character of networks

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael V Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Community Network ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Observable Phenomenon

Many case studies have examined Community Networks and we have at hand a good many rich and well grounded accounts of local experiences and outcomes as they have been observed in local circumstances. This sort of detailed, highly contextualized empirical work is essential to an understanding of contingent phenomena such as the performance of a Community Network. What we also need though, are theoretical approaches that are abstract enough to interpret the character and performance of differently situated Community Networks. The concept of community, the character of networks, and the implications of marrying the two, need to be teased out. To this end, I suggest that Community Networks be understood analytically as amodern hybrids that derive their ontological characteristics from a conflation of binaries. From this analytic perspective the Community Network is seen to be a sociotechnical assemblage that hybridizes the social and the technical, and not a set of technologies brought to bear on the social. The innovative feature of this particular form of sociotechnical assemblage, from an analytic point of view, is that it brings together “community” and “network” as both ontological concepts and as empirically observable phenomenon. The characterization of the assemblage as a “community” but also as a “network” is thus critiqued, and the differences between these two abstractions are explored, and it is further argued that the contrary ontology of the assemblage manifest structures that are at once heterarchic, and hierarchic.

scholarly journals Innovation Development to Increase Local Competitive Advantage in Mojokerto Regency

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Sri Juni Woro Astuti ◽  
Dwi Wahyu Prasetyono
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Regional Development Strategy ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Interactive Data

Becoming more competitive on the local and national levels can be seen as a strategy that will boost economic growth and, in turn, will improve the welfare of the community. Therefore, local government should make it a priority to draw up a grand plan for local development. The roles of resource-based and local potency in planning, therefore, become critical to improve the performance of local development. With accurate planning, the direction of regional development will be more focused. This paper will examine innovation strategy as an effort to increase local competitiveness, especially in Mojokerto Regency. This study utilizes a qualitative research method, where data is extracted from bureaucrats, community leaders, politicians, and academicians. Interactive data analysis methods, which take place continuously through the processes of data collection, data presentation, and conclusion are used to ensure well-considered results. Research indicates that the success of Mojokerto Regency in building local innovation can be attributed to the development of infrastructure and innovation in public services. This two-pronged approach to spearhead local development allowed Mojokerto Regency to increase its economic growth at an impressive rate. The strategies used to encourage the development of innovation at the local level are threefold, beginning with the alignment of regional development strategy to design long, medium, and short term innovation plans. Secondly, innovation is developed based on regional priorities that support economic growth in sectors that will benefit the wider community. Finally, the success of innovation in Mojokerto Regency is dependent on the support and commitment of local political leaders and apparatus resources.

scholarly journals DETERMINANTS OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Wiatrak
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Development Strategy ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The One ◽  
Municipal Development ◽  
The Eu

The article seeks to specify the extent to which municipal development strategies form the basis for municipality development and what determines these strategies and development processes at the local level. It discusses the following issues: the nature and objectives of local development strategies, characteristics of the development strategy in the Stara Błotnica Municipality in the Mazowieckie Voivodship, and the determinants of the municipality’s local development strategy. The considerations herein suggest that the foundation for actions and the use of its resources is provided, on the one hand, by its multifunctional development and, on the other, by sustainable development, relying chiefly on its resources and support from various aid funds, in particular the European Union funds. The municipal development path is set in line with the socio- -economic policy implemented by higher levels, namely the EU, Poland, the Mazowieckie Voivodship and the Białobrzeski District. Task performance requires financial outlays that exceed the municipality’s budget, which proved to be a barrier to full implementation of the strategy. The article was prepared on the basis of related literature as well as documents and materials concerning the Stara Błotnica Municipality in the Mazowieckie Voivodship.

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