scholarly journals Public Expenditure Management and Political Budget Cycles: The Case of Colima City Council 2009-2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Omar Alejandro Pérez-Cruz ◽  
Edgar Alfredo Nande-Vázquez ◽  
Juan Carlos Martínez-Verdugo
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
City Council ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Political Budget Cycles ◽  
Dummy Variable ◽  
Public Expenditure Management ◽  
Investment Spending ◽  
The City ◽  
Budget Cycles

The political budget cycles (PBC), as an evolutionary part of the economic political cycle (EPC), demonstrate the existence of opportunistic practices of economic variables, electoral, and budgetary that the politicians in power operate in their management to continue in office. In this sense, the literature suggests a pattern of opportunistic behavior on voters’ myopia, showing that there is little retrospective memory for voters, allowing the party in power to execute public policies successfully. Thus, the objective of the research is to analyze the existence of political budgetary cycles in the management of investment spending by the City of Colima from the years 2009 to 2018. Thus, the objective of the research is to analyze the existence of political budgetary cycles in the management of investment spending by the City of Colima from the years 2009 to 2018. This was analyzed using the panel data methodology (MCO; EF; EA), to estimate the variables dependent on investment and current expenditure, a dummy variable was introduced to identify the year before the election and to be able to control the influence of the electoral period on each regression. The results show that investment spending is related to election periods, population growth, and the federal social aid budget sector. Current expenditure was only related to population growth. This allows us to explain that spending is a resource that finances public works in the states of Mexico. Thus, this research shows that public works is a public expenditure that the states of Mexico apply more in times of elections.

scholarly journals Political Budget Cycle: Mexican Town Halls Case

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Edgar Alfredo Nande Vazque ◽  
Juan Carlos Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Political Budget Cycle ◽  
Budget Cycle ◽  
Public Expenditure Management ◽  
Voting Decisions ◽  
Investment Spending ◽  
Town Halls ◽  
The Relationship

<p>In the current economic context, one of the issues of concern is the growth of public spending of municipalities of Mexico and thus increasing public debt. This combines the traditional interest that literature has been devoted to the relationship between economics and politics from the perspective of Political Budget Cycle. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of elections in public expenditure management. To this end, a system based on the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), which uses instrumental variables based on delays and differences of all variables in the model estimator was used. Our findings indicate that there is an expansion of total expenditure, spending on public works and infrastructure and current expenditure contracted work, indicating the preference of politicians for using investment spending to influence voter behavior. The work also notes that citizens value the policies of public expenditure management when making their voting decisions.</p>

scholarly journals Political budget cycles in Latin America, 1982-2014.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Mejía-Reyes ◽  
Marlen Rocío Reyes Hernández ◽  
Paolo Riguzzi
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Political Budget Cycles ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Budget Cycles

This paper aims to detect the presence of political budget cycles (PBuCs) around presidential elections in four large Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico) over the 1982-2014 period, in the framework of democratic regimes. Extended autoregressive models are estimated for total public expenditure and their chief components, considering the effect of economic fluctuations. Among the most important findings, weak evidence of PBuCs was found in the case of Argentina and Chile, while in the case of Mexico and Colombia, post-electoral adjustments in budget items sensitive to political manipulation were found, such as subsidies and public works, along with pre-electoral increases in total expenditure in the former one, and in goods and services in the latter.

scholarly journals Opening Gijón to Future: The Limited Revision of the Official Urban Catalogue

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Jorge Latorre ◽  
Jesús Sola
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Working Group ◽  
City Council ◽  
Rapid Population Growth ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Urban Renovation ◽  
Industrial Crisis ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The City

<p class="Abstract"><em>Gijón, also known as Xixón, is an important city that rivals Oviedo, the historical capital of the Autonomous Region and Principality of Asturias (Spain), in historical demographic and economic terms. It has traditionally been a port and, more recently, an industrial city, which experienced very rapid population growth and with little planning. After the industrial crisis of the 80s, the city wanted to become a tourist location more than an industrial harbor. Both its privileged location and the historical urban heritage that still remain are corner stones to make this change possible. However, the late and strict legislation (improvised to protect the last remains of a previously uncontrolled development) impeded a necessary urban re-design in order to shelter the new touristic supplies. This paper proposes some urban solutions to selectively modify the catalogue according with the cultural and touristic potentials of the city. These solutions were agreed by the working group set up by Gijón City Council and ERDU (Estudio de Renovación y Desarrollos Urbanos -Urban Renovation and Development Studio).</em></p><em><em><br /></em></em>

The post-political state? The role of administrative reform in managing tensions between urban growth and liveability in Brisbane, Australia

Urban Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (16) ◽  
pp. 3545-3562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Clarke ◽  
Lynda Cheshire
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
City Council ◽  
Administrative Practices ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Urban Population Growth ◽  
Political Governance ◽  
The City

The article investigates how governmental responses to problems arising from urban population growth contribute to the post-political governance of cities. It does this through a case study of the city of Brisbane, Australia. Brisbane markets itself as a medium-sized metropolis that balances economic growth with a level of urban liveability not found in larger cities. Yet, there are signs that rapid population growth and consolidation are undermining liveability in some Brisbane neighbourhoods, as evidenced by a rise in urban nuisances and neighbour complaints reported to the City Council. Drawing on theories of urban post-politics, we analyse how the Council recasts these symptoms of urban overload as a ‘techno-managerial’ problem that can be addressed by improving efficiency and ‘customer focus’ within its compliance branch. This strategy both eschews political questions about the compatibility of growth and liveability, and promotes an economic and transactional conception of urban citizenship that downplays urban politics more generally. This strategy is significant as it relates to the local state’s internal administrative practices and relations with its citizens, rather than the forms of governance-beyond-the-state that are usually associated with urban post-politics. We conclude that the identification of government-centred depoliticisation strategies indicates that urban post-politics is more comprehensive and multifaceted than previously thought.

scholarly journals Pembangunan Geodatabase Ruang Terbuka Hijau Kota Bandung

2018 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feri Naldi ◽  
Indrianawati
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The City

ABSTRAKKota Bandung merupakan salah satu kota di Indonesia dengan tingkat pembangunan dan pertumbuhan penduduk yang cukup pesat, akibatnya di Kota Bandung terjadi penurunan daya dukung lingkungan hidup. Salah satu kegiatan yang dapat digunakan untuk memberikan informasi dalam menjaga keseimbangan ekologi Kota Bandung adalah dengan inventarisasi keberadaan dan ketersediaan Ruang Terbuka Hijau (RTH) melalui pembangunan geodatabase RTH. Penyediaan RTH pada suatu kawasan perkotaan telah diatur dalam Peraturan Menteri Pekerjaan Umum Nomor 05/PRT/M/2008, dimana proporsi RTH yang harus disediakan pada wilayah perkotaan adalah minimal sebesar 30% dari total luas wilayah kota. Pembangunan geodatabase RTH dilakukan dengan mengintegrasikan data spasial RTH dengan informasi tipologi RTH dan data foto/video RTH. Dari hasil pembangunan geodatabase dapat diketahui bahwa Kota Bandung mempunyai 22,59% RTH publik (3.802,5 Ha) dan 3,45% RTH privat (581,51 Ha) yang tersebar di seluruh Kota Bandung.Kata kunci: SIG, Ruang Terbuka Hijau (RTH), GeodatabaseABSTRACTBandung is one of the cities in Indonesia with the level of development and population growth quite rapidly. Consequently, the carrying capacity of the environment in Bandung is decrease. One of the activities that can be used to provide information in maintaining the ecological balance of Bandung is the inventory of the existence and availability of green open space through the geodatabase development of green open space. Provision of green space in an urban area has been regulated in the Regulation of the Minister of Public Works No. 05/PRT/M/2008, where the proportion of green open space should be provided in urban areas is a minimum of 30% of the total area of the city. Geodatabase development of green open space is done by integrating spatial data of green open spaces with information of green open space typology and data of photos/videos of green open space. Results from the geodatabase development showed that Bandung has 22.59% public green open space (3802.5 ha) and 3.45% private green open space (581.51 ha) which spread throughout the city of Bandung.Keywords: GIS, Green Open Space, Geodatabase

Labor-Management Cooperation—City of Portland, Maine

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Patricia Peightal ◽  
Dana Souza ◽  
Bill Bray ◽  
John Rague ◽  
Jim Pritchard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
City Council ◽  
Department Head ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Labor Management ◽  
Cross Training ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
Fiscal Pressure ◽  
The City

Portland, Maine had a traditional bargaining relationship. It now has one of the most complete programs of service-focused labor management cooperation of any place in the country. A broad range of city services, including an emerging effort in public safety are now run this way, with workers and their union leaders, managers and elected officials all benefitting from and praising the new relationship. Portland made this radical transformation without a crisis of fiscal pressure. New leadership in the city manager's office and responsive leadership in key bargaining units led to an experiment on the building of Hadlock Field. A partnership between the department head and the president of the AFSCME local led the project. Instead of contracting out to meet a short deadline and employ skills that didn't seem to exist, the parties worked out a special set of arrangements and via cross-training, teamwork and dedication completed the stadium in seven months, millions under the expected budget. From the pride and satisfaction of this joint effort, Portland, AFSCME and other key units worked to create a new participative relationship across the full range of city services. The effort has produced major cost savings and service improvements, has strengthened both the management and the union and has produced a far less adversarial bargaining relationship. In one innovation, separate services were split up and reorganized into district teams, providing customer-oriented public works services in areas that match city council districts. Cross training and new responsibilities have resulted in new opportunities and pay raises, yet have saved time and money. The piece, co-authored by union and management leaders from Portland, illustrates the breadth and depth of what they have achieved without a crisis as the initiating factor.

scholarly journals POLITICAL BUDGET CYCLES – GOING BEYOND THE AVERAGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Michał Wielechowski
Keyword(s):  
Government Spending ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Budget Cycles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Country Specific ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Election Cycles ◽  
Budget Cycles

We test whether there are country-specific election cycles present in the public expenditure in the European Union. Using panel data on all 28 current EU Member States from 1995 to 2015, we find in general evidence for an election-induced expansion in total government spending and within the categories of public services, safety, housing, recreation, and education. Our contribution is to combine the notion of targeting specific public spending categories and the occurrence of country-specific political budget cycles in the EU. The results indicate that election cycles vary substantially across countries. We observe a significant election effect in about 77% of our estimates. Two thirds of these observed significant effects represent increased spending in pre-election period.

Portuguese Sardines - from the ritual to the brand

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Cecília Avelino Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
City Council ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
City Branding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Behavioral Expression ◽  
The City ◽  
City Identity

Place branding is a network of associations in the consumer’s mind, based on the visual, verbal, and behavioral expression of a place. Food can be an important tool to summarize it as it is part of the culture of a city and its symbolic capital. Food is imaginary, a ritual and a social construction. This paper aims to explore a ritual that has turned into one of the brands of Lisbon in the past few years. The fresh sardines barbecued out of doors, during Saint Anthony’s festival, has become a symbol that can be found on t-shirts, magnets and all kinds of souvenirs. Over the year, tourists can buy sardine shaped objects in very cheap stores to luxurious shops. There is even a whole boutique dedicated to the fish: “The Fantastic World of Portuguese Sardines” and an annual competition promoted by the city council to choose the five most emblematic designs of sardines. In order to analyze the Sardine phenomenon from a city branding point of view, the objective of this paper is to comprehend what associations are made by foreigners when they are outside of Lisbon. As a methodological procedure five design sardines, were used of last year to questioning to which city they relate them in interviews carried in Madrid, Lyon, Rome and London. Upon completion of the analysis, the results of the city branding strategy adopted by the city council to promote the sardines as the official symbol of Lisbon is seen as a Folkmarketing action. The effects are positive, but still quite local. On the other hand, significant participation of the Lisbon´s dwellers in the Sardine Contest was observed, which seems to be a good way to promote the city identity and pride in their best ambassador: the citizens.

Strategic Planning Information Systems Enterprise Architecture Planning Method Case Study of Semarang City Public Works Department

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
Agustinus Fritz Wijaya ◽  
Mahendra Wahyu Prasetyo
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Application Architecture ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
The City

Semarang City Public Works Department is a state-owned enterprise that works in the area of public services in the city of Semarang. Most of the technological conditions in the Public Works Department are still in manual data management, which is hampering business processes from going well. Therefore this research was conducted to design an Information System at the Semarang City Public Works Department using the Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) method which includes a SWOT analysis and Value Chain analysis. The existing framework in the Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) method can help align the data architecture and application architecture to get the expected results, which is achieving the business objectives of the City of Semarang Public Works Department so that business functions can run by the desired business processes. This research resulted in several proposals for the development of Information Systems and Information Technology in organizations including the development of several applications in the next 5 years.

Treading Angels: Edinburgh and its Festivals

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-317
Author(s):  
David McCrone
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Bodies

How did Edinburgh become ‘festival city’? Despite appearances, it was not always so, and it acquired the accolade by happenstance; in the view of one observer, a ‘strange amalgam of cultural banditry, civic enterprise and idealism’. The official Festival's survival was down to the City Council, and it was funded almost entirely by public bodies. This was the central structure around which The Fringe developed, and The Traverse prospered, along with smaller festivals and events to become Festival City. The story sheds considerable light on how Edinburgh ‘works’, its strengths and weaknesses combined.

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