Institutional complexity and unanticipated consequences: the failure of decentralization in South Africa

Koelble, Thomas A.; Siddle, Andrew

doi:10.1080/13510347.2013.784270

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“…Wineries' rural location also limits the likely role of NGO activism and residents' complaints. Although enhancing the state's enforcement capacity remains an important policy imperative, it is unlikely to improve significantly in the near or medium term (see also Koelble & Siddle, 2013). As a result, proponents such as D. Williamson and colleagues (2006) who hope that regulations will become a primary driver of SMEs' environmental performance may have to wait a while, especially with respect to dispersed, mostly rural firms like wine companies in "areas of limited statehood" (Börzel & Risse, 2010).…”

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Why Do SMEs Go Green? An Analysis of Wine Firms in South Africa

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Studies on why small and medium enterprises (SMEs) engage in proenvironmental behavior suggest that managers' environmental responsibility plays a relatively greater role than competitiveness and legitimacy-seeking. These categories of drivers are mostly considered independent of each other. Using survey data and comparative case studies of wine firms in South Africa, this study finds that managers' environmental responsibility is indeed the key driver in a context where state regulation hardly plays any role in regulating dispersed, rural firms. However, especially proactive firms are also characterized by expectations of competitiveness gains. The authors thus emphasize the role of institutional context and potential interaction effects between these drivers in explaining the reasons why SMEs engage in pro-environmental behavior in developing countries.

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“…Wineries’ rural location also limits the likely role of NGO activism and residents’ complaints. Although enhancing the state’s enforcement capacity remains an important policy imperative, it is unlikely to improve significantly in the near or medium term (see also Koelble & Siddle, 2013). As a result, proponents such as D.…”

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“…This has caused the public to lose trust in the healthcare system (Zubane 2011:1). Koelble and Siddle (2014:1118) describe the healthcare system in South Africa as ruined and in serious need of repair.…”

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Challenges of quality improvement in the healthcare of South Africa post-apartheid: A critical review

2019

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Background There is overwhelming evidence that the quality of health care in South Africa has been compromised by various challenges that impact negatively on healthcare quality. Improvement in quality care means fewer errors, reduced delays in care delivery, improvement in efficiency, increased market share and lower cost. Decline in quality health care has caused the public to lose trust in the healthcare system in South Africa. Objectives The purpose of this study was to identify challenges that are being incurred in practice that compromise quality in the healthcare sector, including strategies employed by government to improve the quality of health delivery. Method Literature search included the following computer-assisted databases and bibliographies: Medline (Medical Literature Online), EBSCOhost, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Google, Google Scholar and ScienceDirect. Furthermore, websites were used to source policy documents of organisations such as the National Department of Health in South Africa and the World Health Organization. Results Seventy-four articles were selected from 1366 retrieved. These articles quantify problems facing quality care delivery and strategies used to improve the healthcare system in South Africa. Conclusion The findings revealed that there were many quality improvement programmes that had been initiated, adapted, modified and then tested but did not produce the required level of quality service delivery as desired. As a result, the Government of South Africa has a challenge to ensure that implementation of National Core Standards will deliver the desired health outcomes, because achieving a lasting quality improvement system in health care seems to be an arduous challenge.

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“…The literature on institutional complexity can partly help understanding this phenomenon. For the case of South Africa Koelble and Siddle (2014) argue that decentralization failed because local governments were facing complex constitutional and legal requirements they were not equipped to meet. The lack of success in implementing decentral participation in South Africa could thus well be explained by a lack sufficient organizational complexity to face institutionally complex requirements.…”

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Local participatory budgeting in a multilevel government – an institutional analysis of Ecuadorian municipal expenditure policies

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Lienhoop²,

Hansjürgens³

2021

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This paper analyses participatory budgeting in multilevel governance settings. The Institutional Development and Analysis framework is applied to evaluate two Ecuadorian municipal case studies. Here, participatory budgeting piloted bottom-up institutions to include citizens’ preferences in the allocation of local government expenditures. To formalize and up-scale these local innovations, participatory budgeting became a requirement for all government levels under the 2008 constitution. Higher government level requirements for planning subsequently introduced conflicting demands on decentral budgetary processes and led to partial re-centralization of municipal investment planning. The study thus exemplifies difficulties of i) vertical policy coordination in multilevel participatory budgeting and ii) integrating long-term planning in yearly participatory budgeting investment decisions. These problems need to be resolved to facilitate legitimate and effective participatory budgeting in multilevel governments.

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Institutional complexity and unanticipated consequences: the failure of decentralization in South Africa

Cited by 23 publications

References 5 publications

Why Do SMEs Go Green? An Analysis of Wine Firms in South Africa

Why Do SMEs Go Green? An Analysis of Wine Firms in South Africa

Challenges of quality improvement in the healthcare of South Africa post-apartheid: A critical review

Local participatory budgeting in a multilevel government – an institutional analysis of Ecuadorian municipal expenditure policies

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