Political land corruption: evidence from Malta – the European Union’s smallest member state

Caruana-Galizia, Paul; Caruana-Galizia, Matthew

doi:10.1017/s0143814x17000174

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“…Another local study focused directly on web-scraped development-planning applications, with a particular focus on the ratio of the number of granted ODZ permits to the total number of permits granted within the development zone. The ratio of ODZ permits granted close to election periods, and the instances of the Planning Authority Board permitting developments, notwithstanding the planning officers' recommendation to refuse the issuance of permits, supports the hypothesis that land development and the institutions regulating it are used as a political mechanism by incumbent governments to garner votes during elections [71].…”

Section: Data Collationmentioning

confidence: 61%

“…These results demonstrate a need for further reflection on and analysis of the granting of ODZ applications and a much deeper understanding and discussion on the impact of the ODZ designation in Malta's planning system. It is clear that although the original objective of the ODZ was to safeguard the rural areas of Malta, there is considerable pressure to extend development within this area both because of the cheaper land prices and because of the attractiveness of this area away from the development zone [71]. The results show that a consistently higher percentage of granted applications are located within the development zone.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 95%

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Urban Growth in a Mediterranean Island-State: A Data-Driven Study of Malta’s Development Permits in the Last Thirty Years

Pace,

Attard,

Camilleri

et al. 2023

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Land is a natural resource, and settlement development is central for human activities. The growth of settlements comes at the expense of natural and agricultural land. Understanding urban growth dynamics, defined in this study as new urban development, can lead to an increased awareness of the stresses on land resources and the suitability of current land use policies. It can also reflect how changes in the economic cycles and planning policies can influence these dynamics. This is even more critical in small island states, where land is a scarce resource. This study uses data extracted from development-planning applications between 1993 and 2019 in order to understand urban growth in the island-state of Malta. A methodology was developed to (i) use web-scraping techniques to extract development-planning applications data from a public online database in order to define development descriptors, (ii) establish keywords that imply growth within the urban area, and (iii) analyse growth in view of local planning zones and regulations. The results show that over the years, there has been a decrease in the share of granted development-planning applications that lead to the growth of the urban area when compared to those granted applications permitting other forms of development, such as that linked to minor modifications to existing buildings and restoration works amongst others. Nonetheless, the absolute number of granted development-planning applications resulting in growth has increased, particularly in the last construction boom (post 2013). The share of applications denoting growth granted within the development zone has remained stable throughout the years. The years with the highest numbers of permits granted outside the development zone, where there was a disposition against development, were 2017 and 2018. In conclusion, the trends and patterns resulting from development cycles were analysed and discussed. The outcomes of this work will lead to better measurement of urban growth in Malta and assess the efficacy of current national development-planning policies. This is in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 11, which aims at making “cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”. The research specifically addresses Target 11a, which is focused on supporting “positive economic, social, and environmental links between urban, peri-urban, and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning”.

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Section: Data Collationmentioning

confidence: 61%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Urban Growth in a Mediterranean Island-State: A Data-Driven Study of Malta’s Development Permits in the Last Thirty Years

Pace,

Attard,

Camilleri

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…The CPI was used in this research as a proxy to represent political corruption in the land sector for private gain. Opportunities for this kind of corruption result from privatization of state-own land, zoning limits and building permits, expropriation of private land for government-related projects, negotiation of large-scale land acquisitions by investors, and others [90]. Land is one of the key factors of production alongside with labour and capital; failure to manage land properly may lead to uprisings and questioning of the legitimacy of governments given that land provides revenue through land taxation or provides the basis for claims to other revenue sources [91].…”

Section: Corruption In Public Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional Settings and Effects on Agricultural Land Conversion: A Global and Spatial Analysis of European Regions

Ustaoglu

Williams

2022

Land

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Spatial planning systems and institutions have a significant role in managing non-agricultural land growth in Europe and the assessment of how their implementation impacts on agricultural land consumption is of great significance for policy and institutional improvement. Reducing the area of agricultural land taken for urban development, or eliminating such conversion, is an international policy priority aiming to maintain the amount and quality of land resources currently available for food production and sustainable development. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of land use planning systems and institutional settings on urban conversion of agricultural land in the 265 NUTS2 level EU27 and UK regions. Taking these regions as the unit of our analysis, the research developed and used global and local econometrics models to estimate the effect based on socio-economic, institutional and land use data for the 2000–2018 period. There is limited research focusing on the impacts of institutional settings and planning types of the European countries on the conversion of agricultural land. Furthermore, existing research has not considered the spatial relationships with the determinants of agricultural land conversion and the response variable, therefore, our research aimed to contribute to the literature on the subject. The results showed that the types of spatial planning systems and institution variables significantly impact the conversion of agricultural land to urban uses. Socio-economic indicators and areas of agricultural and urban land have significant impact on agricultural land conversion for any type of spatial planning system. A further result was that decentralization and political fragmentation were positively associated with agricultural land conversion while quality of regional government and governance was negatively associated. A local regression model was assessed to explore the different spatial patterns of the relationships driving agricultural land conversion. The main empirical finding from this model was that there was spatial variation of driving factors of agricultural land conversion in Europe.

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“…It is quite challenging to make nationally implemented policies work in such a way that they lead to intended outcomes. Unintended consequences of global models implemented in national contexts are primarily documented for developing states (Homedes & Ugalde 2005;Hammergren, 1998;Lahiff, 2007;Lahiff, Borras & Kay 2007;Borras, Carranza & Franco, 2007;Persson, Rothtein & Teorell, 2012;Gauster & Isakson, 2007;Pomfret, 2000;Rupidara & McGraw, 2010;Sehring, 2009) and much less for developed states (Caruana-Galizia & Caruana-Galizia, 2018;Schelkle, 2019;Butler, 2003). This is not surprising since most global models originate from a Western perspective.…”

Section: Means-ends Decoupling At the State Level And Implementation mentioning

confidence: 99%

Global education models in national contexts: the establishment of research universities in Ukraine

Hladchenko¹

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Aligment of the national context with the global models…. 7.1.3 Change in the formulation of the global models…………… 7.2 Organisational responses to institutional complexity………… 7.2.1 Institutional complexity and means-ends decoupling at the organisational level……………………………………………… 7.2.2 Means-ends decoupling and managerial responses to multiple organisational identities………………………………... 7.3 Implementing the research university model at the micro level of governance…………………………………………………….. 7.3.1 Implications of institutional and cultural complexities for individual actors…………………………………………………. 7.3.2 Identity work of Ukrainian academics……………………... 7.4 Contributions…………………………………………………. 7.5 Limitations and suggestions for further research……………... 7.6 Final words. Ukrainian higher education under means-ends decoupling at the state level………………………………………. References…………………………………………………………... Nederlandstalige samenvatting……………………………………… 2. Exploring change and stability in Ukrainian higher education and research: A historical analysis through multiple critical junctures 1 5. Means-ends decoupling at the state level and managerial responses to multiple organisational identities in Ukrainian research universities 9

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Political land corruption: evidence from Malta – the European Union’s smallest member state

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Urban Growth in a Mediterranean Island-State: A Data-Driven Study of Malta’s Development Permits in the Last Thirty Years

Urban Growth in a Mediterranean Island-State: A Data-Driven Study of Malta’s Development Permits in the Last Thirty Years

Institutional Settings and Effects on Agricultural Land Conversion: A Global and Spatial Analysis of European Regions

Global education models in national contexts: the establishment of research universities in Ukraine

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