Do party organizations integrate multi-level states? The case of the Norwegian Local Government Reform

Saglie, Jo

doi:10.1080/13597566.2019.1684268

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“…Isso acontece por causa do compartilhamento de estruturas (Thorlakson, 2009). Os partidos de âmbito nacional, portanto, estabelecem diretrizes de atuação para suas legendas na esfera local (Van Houten, 2009), entregando informações referentes à produção de políticas públicas (Saglie, 2019). Assim, os partidos disponibilizam os recursos e orientam o seu uso para que prefeitos alinhados com o Governo Federal ofertem mais serviços.…”

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Alinhamento partidário e oferta de políticas públicas no Brasil

Lira

2023

Rev. Adm. Pública

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Resumo Municípios partidariamente alinhados com o presidente ofertam mais políticas públicas? A entrega de serviços públicos é uma das atividades centrais dos governos. Uma vez que são os partidos políticos que controlam o Poder Executivo tanto no Governo Federal quanto no governo local, é razoável esperar que seus interesses partidários e eleitorais influenciem o curso da implementação de serviços. Neste artigo, analiso a cobertura da atenção básica à saúde como indicador de oferta. Dado o forte compartilhamento de responsabilidades entre os entes federados, argumento que o Governo Federal implementa políticas públicas de forma estratégica, aumentando a oferta de serviços em municípios partidariamente alinhados. Para testar empiricamente essa relação, estimo o efeito causal do alinhamento por meio de um desenho de regressão descontínua para eleições acirradas. Os resultados indicam que os municípios partidariamente alinhados com a Presidência da República têm cobertura da atenção básica à saúde, em média, 3% maior que outros governados por partidos oposicionistas. Em uma cidade com 10 mil habitantes, por exemplo, isso significaria 300 pessoas a mais sendo adequadamente atendidas por equipes de saúde.

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Alinhamento partidário e oferta de políticas públicas no Brasil

Lira

2023

Rev. Adm. Pública

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“…This happens because of the sharing of structures (Thorlakson, 2009). National parties, therefore, establish operational guidelines for their parties at the local level (Van Houten, 2009), delivering information regarding the production of public policies (Saglie, 2019). Thus, the parties make resources available and guide their use so that mayors aligned with the Federal Government offer more services.…”

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Partisan alignment and public policies provision in Brazil

Lira

2023

Rev. Adm. Pública

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This research examines whether local governments politically aligned with the president’s party offer more public policies. The delivery of public services is one of the central activities of governments. Since the political parties control the executive branch in both federal and local government, it is reasonable to expect that their partisan and electoral interests will influence policy implementation. This study analyzes the coverage of primary healthcare as an indicator of policy delivery. Given the strong sharing of responsibilities among federated entities, I argue that the federal government implements public policies strategically, increasing the supply of services in partisan-aligned municipalities. To empirically test this relationship, I estimate the causal effect of alignment using a regression-discontinuity design for close elections. The results indicate that partisan-aligned municipalities have, on average, 3% higher coverage of primary healthcare than others governed by opposition parties. In a city with 10,000 inhabitants, for example, this would mean 300 more people receiving healthcare.

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“…The abolition of county-wide party election lists has had drastic consequences, leading to the de facto demise of countylevel party politics. This change indicates that the ruling political elite had no intention to support the meso-level political game despite growing awareness of the importance of parties in the integration of governance levels, and the profound impact of their inner structure on the policy efficiency of the government (Saglie, 2019). Hungarian parties no longer needed county-level representation, having no demand for county programs, campaigns, nominating well-known, authentic personalities, etc.…”

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Politics Without Meso-Level? No Politics at the Meso?

Kovács

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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The paper examines the role of meso-level governance in the Hungarian political system focusing on the county self-governments. The objective of the author is to introduce the consequences of the lack of meso-level politics for the backslide of the democratic system. The paper focusing on Hungarian counties seeks to explore the three-decade-long process leading to the progressive elimination of these bodies from the public power arena. The Hungarian case demonstrates how the overall administrative and political centralisation process has contributed to the hollowing-out of meso-level political actors. The Hungarian case study underlines the complex interrelations between the macro-political system, and the territorial political governmental arenas from the aspect of the centre and periphery power relations. Many European regional governments are not only platforms for territorial interest representation but also a counterweight to the central level contributing to the quality and stability of democratic governance. The study reviewing the situation of Hungarian counties draws on the author’s previous empirical research experiences and is a part of the ongoing research on governance issues of peripheral areas1. The results of the analyses discuss the implications of the hollowing-out of county governments on the electoral and party system, the modification of the institutional channels of interest representation. The Hungarian example appears to corroborate the analogy with the theory of second order elections. The theory of second order elections recognized the impact on the turnout and electoral preferences based on the changing role of different governance levels, by the same token, it seems that the weakening power position of the meso contributes to the decline of political competition and publicity by minimizing the interest of the public in general. The objective of the present study is to enrich the assessment of the relationship between territorial governance and democracy with some analytical options by demonstrating the implications of the “second order nature” of the meso.

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Do party organizations integrate multi-level states? The case of the Norwegian Local Government Reform

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Alinhamento partidário e oferta de políticas públicas no Brasil

Alinhamento partidário e oferta de políticas públicas no Brasil

Partisan alignment and public policies provision in Brazil

Politics Without Meso-Level? No Politics at the Meso?

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