Doing Comparative Research on Local Politics

Steyvers, Kristof

doi:10.31297/hkju.19.1.3

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“…In recent years within local public administration, the efforts to introduce resilience as a strategic element have been based on increasing transparency and legitimacy, to help public organisations gain competencies and build a clear trajectory to act in limited situations ( Van de Walle, 2014;Steyvers, 2019). However, the development of institutional resilience in the local public administration is slowed down by the phenomenon of overformalisation, and the implementation of unique procedures that renders more difficult the processes of anticipation and adaptation (Van de…”

Section: Croatian and Comparative Public Administrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Procjena kapaciteta za institucionalnu otpornost u lokalnoj javnoj upravi

Profiroiu,

Nastacă

2024

HKJU-CCPA

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Over time, the Romanian society has experienced different shocks, disruptions and stressors ranging from the fall of communism, transition to a market economy, European Union accession, development of new institutions, the necessity for rapid solutions to the economic crisis, and the most recent one, the COVID-19 pandemic and its outcomes. The pandemic showed the need to develop and strengthen the resilience capacity of the public organisations that play important roles in managing all sorts of crises, including at the local level. Institutional resilience of the local public administration depends on a series of factors such as the design of the institutions, the human resources training process, and the organisational culture that dominates the institutional framework. In this respect, taking into consideration different factors that might influence resilience in public organisations, the present pilot study investigated the concept of institutional resilience in the Romanian local public administration starting from a conceptual framework for assessing the resilience capacity previously designed by the authors. The objective of the research was to assess the capacity of institutional resilience in the local public administration, namely in two of the six District Halls of the Bucharest Municipality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the results, the research instrument will be improved and the study will be extended to other organisations from the public administration. The capacity of institutional resilience in the local public administration was measured using four dimensions, created based on the resilience framework developed by the authors: capacity for innovation and learning, strategic capacity, stakeholders’ involvement in decision-making, and transparency and communication. The research was conducted in a comparative manner, aiming to establish if there were any differences between the capacity of institutional resilience in the two District Halls. The research revealed that both District Halls proved a medium to high level of resilience. District Hall 3 exhibited a higher capacity of resilience compared with District Hall 2, with the remark that both organisations should improve the factors that influence this capacity.

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Section: Croatian and Comparative Public Administrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Procjena kapaciteta za institucionalnu otpornost u lokalnoj javnoj upravi

Profiroiu,

Nastacă

2024

HKJU-CCPA

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“…Up until now, the field continues to be dominated by research that only studies the situation ex post hoc or that evaluates the effects based on respondents' impressions of the effects. Although this line of research does produce very relevant insights into the effectiveness, legitimacy and accountability effects of the various models, effective theory building in local politics requires more methodological rigour (Steyvers 2019).…”

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A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government

Callanan¹,

Loughlin²

2021

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Oblique-change matters: ‘bradyseismic’ institutional change in local government

Bolgherini

Lippi

2020

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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In the last 30 years, Local Governments all over Europe experienced an intense season of institutional change of unprecedented width and intensity. This paper focuses on a neglected type of institutional change, a more indirect one – here labeled oblique-change – that however strongly influences the overall LG institutional change and local autonomy. Taking 2012 as the climax of the austerity period in Europe and Italy as a pilot case for future comparisons, this article shows that oblique-change matters to a considerable extent, and that it is much more frequent and highly impacting than expected. Moreover, it argues that bradyseismic adjustments provoked by oblique-change may turn out in an equally profound change of the local government's asset, as that induced by major reforms.

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Doing Comparative Research on Local Politics

Cited by 4 publications

References 42 publications

Procjena kapaciteta za institucionalnu otpornost u lokalnoj javnoj upravi

Procjena kapaciteta za institucionalnu otpornost u lokalnoj javnoj upravi

A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government

Oblique-change matters: ‘bradyseismic’ institutional change in local government

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