Decentralization: Conceptualization and measurement

Schneider, Aaron

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“…These two indicators illustrate that the basic service performance of family planning programs in Empat Lawang regency is still weak and insufficient. Political autonomy measures the discretionary power in political decision making awarded to each district [5]. For Empat Lawang Regency, as the result of local election, the Regent is the person who had the most power in policy and decision making in all aspects of administration including family planning.…”

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confidence: 99%

Improving Family Planning Service Towards Sound Demography And Welfare Policy: Lesson From Decentralization Reform Failure In Indonesia

Abriamty¹,

Sujarwoto²

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Administrative Science, Policy and Governance Studies (ICAS-PGS 2017) and the In

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Abstract-Improving family planning services is vital for achieving sound demography and welfare policy. In the period 1970s-1990s Indonesia had achieved a success for controlling fertility growth and improving family welfare through centralistic family planning program. Yet, the country under decentralization reform failed to continue such success. Using mixed method, this research examines why decentralization reform in the country failed to control fertility rate and to improve family welfare and seeks what strategies to enhance sound demography and welfare policy under decentralization reform. Results of multilevel logit regression shows null association of decentralization measures on fertility rate in Indonesia. From the qualitative study in Empat Lawang Regency, decentralization reform failure is a result from many issues. First, the local government is lacking in local fiscal capacity. Second, limited number of PLKB both in quantity and quality. Third, the elected regent holds most power in the region, therefore, the accomplishment of family planning programs in Empat Lawang is greatly depend on the Regent political will. From this result, some strategies can be proposed to enhance sound demography and welfare policy. First, the central government needs to take a lead in reformulation of family planning management in district level; second, major recruitment of PLKB particularly for village level; third, consistent courses of re-introducing the significance of family planning to overall development goals to develop the political will of local leader in district level; and fourth, this study highlights that family planning policy could not be pursued successfully without promoting socio-economic conditions such as female literacy, the general quality of life, reproductive health and family welfare.

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Improving Family Planning Service Towards Sound Demography And Welfare Policy: Lesson From Decentralization Reform Failure In Indonesia

Abriamty¹,

Sujarwoto²

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Administrative Science, Policy and Governance Studies (ICAS-PGS 2017) and the In

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“…On the other hand, federalism is seen as an important means of control. In line with research on federalism, the degrees of decentralisation as well as effective sub-national fiscal autonomy are incorporated into the measure (Schneider, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Democracy Barometer: A New Instrument to Measure the Quality of Democracy and its Potential for Comparative Research

Bühlmann

Merkel

Müller³

et al. 2011

Eur Polit Sci

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Measuring characteristics of democracy is not an easy task, but anyone who does empirical research on democracy needs good measures. In this article, we present the Democracy Barometer, a new measure that overcomes the conceptual and methodological shortcomings of previous indices. It allows for a description and comparison of the quality of thirty established democracies in the timespan between 1995 and 2005. The article examines its descriptive purposes and demonstrates the potential of this new instrument for future comparative analyses.

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“…To start with, the main problem of the literature is actually not the choice between "centralized" and "decentralized" governments, but rather between political, or constitutional (which in turn may refer to the autonomy of decisionmaking, autonomous appointment of governments and their ability to participate in federal decision-making), and administrative (which mostly refers to the construction of public administration, i.e. deconcentration of bureaucracy) decentralization (Hutchcroft, 2001;Ali, 2002;Schneider, 2003). For a large country (in terms of population or territory)…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In spite of the obvious importance of the topic, the literature explicitly comparing different dimensions of decentralization is very small (Treisman, 2002;Schneider, 2003;Blume and Voigt, 2008) and mostly focuses on international settings. A related analysis is done by Liu (2007), who performs a cluster analysis of different dimensions of decentralization in order to identify the typical combinations empirically observed, and Falleti (2004) in a case study of Latin American countries, who investigates the dynamic interaction of different decentralization aspects.…”

Section: Measuring the Degree Of Decentralizationmentioning

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Constitutions, regulations, and taxes: Contradictions of different aspects of decentralization

Libman

2010

Journal of Comparative Economics

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The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, postconstitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization -using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country. It finds virtually no correlation between different decentralization aspects; moreover, three processes of devolution appearing in the same country at the same time seem to be driven by different (though partly overlapping) forces. Hence, a specific aspect of decentralization is hardly able to serve as a proxy for another one or for the overall decentralization process.

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Decentralization: Conceptualization and measurement

Cited by 286 publications

References 14 publications

Improving Family Planning Service Towards Sound Demography And Welfare Policy: Lesson From Decentralization Reform Failure In Indonesia

Improving Family Planning Service Towards Sound Demography And Welfare Policy: Lesson From Decentralization Reform Failure In Indonesia

The Democracy Barometer: A New Instrument to Measure the Quality of Democracy and its Potential for Comparative Research

Constitutions, regulations, and taxes: Contradictions of different aspects of decentralization

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