Evaluation of Local Government Performance and Presidential Approval in Mexico

This study examines the interaction effects of attention to COVID-19 information and perceived source credibility on the evaluation of government performance in the Hubei province of mainland China; the study is based on two waves of panel data drawn from a sample of 1896 respondents. The results demonstrated that COVID-19 information attention positively influences the evaluation of both central and local government performance. These direct relationships are contingent on the perceived source credibility of central and local government institutions, but they are not influenced by the perceived credibility of social media sources. More interestingly, there is a negative moderating effect of the perceived credibility of local institution sources on the relationship between COVID-19 information attention and the evaluation of central government performance. This study extends the current research on the impacts of information consumption on political attitudes by integrating various theories or hypotheses (e.g. cognitive media model, attitudinal policy feedback, message persuasion, and informational incongruity).

This study aims to obtain empirical evidence about the effect of size, leverage, audit findings, and follow-up of audit recommendation to the local governance performance in Java Island. Local government performance is measured by scores on the evaluation of local government performance (EKPPD) derived from local government organizers report (LPPD. Population of this research is all the district/city in Java Island during 2014. According to purposive sampling method, this study employs sample of 109 local government in Java Island in 2014. Research data analysis using descriptive analysis statistical and multiple regression analysis with SPSS version 21. The result demonstrate that size and follow-up of audit recommendation have significant positive effect on the performance of local government districts/cities in Java Island. Audit findings significant negative effect on the performance of local government districts/cities in Java Island. Leverage had no significant effect to the performance of local government districts/cities in Java Island. Based on the research result can be conclude furthmore that size and follow-up of audit recommendation can increase performance of local government. Keywords: Local government performance; size; leverage; audit findings; follow-up of audit recommendation; scores of local government performance

Bringing the concept of public satisfaction into government performance evaluation is the objective requirement of democratic politics, which involves complex psychological evaluation models and has opened a new area in China. Drawing on the classic structure of satisfaction, a theoretical model is built for the evaluation of public satisfaction of domestic local government's overall performance. Based on a valid data of a poll to 21,853 civilians in Guangdong Province, the results of empirically analyzing the influencing factors of public satisfaction show that: the satisfaction of "government service", "life support" and "living environment" have a significant positive impact on the overall satisfaction of the local government, especially the influencing coefficient of âgovernment serviceâ satisfaction as high as 0.64, which indicates that improving the service quality is the key to lift citizens' satisfaction towards local governments' performance.

In this article, the author reports on the state job approval data set. Although the data set includes state‐level job approval for governors and U. S. senators, it also contains similar data on the president. These data allow us to test propositions about public opinion toward the president at a level of aggregation lower than the national level but higher than the individual level. More than one thousand state‐level presidential job approval readings exist in this data set. Such a large N allows us to test ideas and bypotheses that other limited N designs cannot accomplish. In the first part of this article, the author discusses the properties of these data. In the second part, he uses these data to test two competing theories of the impact of economic perceptions on presidential approval, the retrospection versus the prospection model, which provides one example of how these data can be put to use.

U.S. presidential approval is a topic that has long attracted the interest of political pundits, journalists, candidates, and academics. This study focuses on quarterly U.S. presidential approval and measures of the U.S. macroeconomy. This research will expand, update and reinvestigate this relationship using new data, additional variables and the IVX predictive regression model of Kostakis, et al. (2015), specifically developed for time series data with mixed orders of integration such as we have here. We found that (as measured by Gallup data) U.S. presidential approval is a stationary mean‐reverting variable with a long‐term mean of approximately 50%. Our results also suggest that presidential party and the business cycle have no impact on the mean of quarterly presidential approval as standalone variables. However, using a comprehensive set of macroeconomic variables in a single study, we found that macroeconomic variables make a difference in applying predictive regression models to indicate significance. Specifically, before and after controlling for other macroeconomic variables, political party and the business cycle, more immediate “pocketbook issues” like gasoline prices and inflation expectations are important issues to American voters' presidential approval rating. Simply put, our regression results suggest rising prices and the expectation of rising prices consistently lower presidential approval in our sample data. This is a result that will likely interest political practitioners and academics alike.

With the development of information society, big data has led the change of society. As the core part of government performance management, government performance evaluation is an important “booster” to improve government administrative efficiency and promote the transformation of government functions. The government’s responsibility is to undertake the obligation to serve the society and protect the fundamental rights and interests of the people. Government performance evaluation is a professional and specific procedure that combines quantitative and qualitative measurements to accurately evaluate the final performance results of government departments in the management process, so as to test and assess whether or to what extent the government has fulfilled its responsibilities. Government performance evaluation not only realizes the core values and public accountability goals of the government, but also is an effective mechanism for implementing government accountability. However, in reality, there are still many problems in China’s government in fulfilling its responsibilities and running performance evaluation mechanisms. This paper analyzes the current dilemmas and problems in local government performance evaluation based on government responsibility, and then proposes countermeasures to improve the government performance evaluation mechanism under the perspective of government responsibility, thus providing a theoretical basis for the implementation of the correct concept of performance.

Urban China always plays important political role in contemporary Chinese history. Urban residents, especially in provincial capital cities, are better educated and live in political, economic and social centers in China. Their support is indispensable for the current government in China. Utilizing a large-scale survey data this study explores sources of subjective evaluation of local municipal government policy performance among Chinese urban residents in ten large Chinese cities. Descriptively, this study finds moderate satisfaction with city government performance among Chinese urbanites, which seems to lend support to Chinese government’s performance-based political legitimacy and explains relative political stability in China. Analytically, it is found that, while perceived public participation in municipal policy-making process, perceived government transparency, and personal life satisfaction increase Chinese urban residents’ positive evaluation of government performance, perceived official corruption, democratic orientation and level of political interest lead to negative evaluation of government performance among Chinese urbanites.

We offer evidence that public sector corruption has an inverse association with evaluations of performance at both the local and central government levels. Consistent with ex ante expectations, perceptions of corruption among local government officials are directly and negatively related to performance evaluations at the local government level and relatively less so at the central government level. Conversely, perceptions of corruption among overall government officials have a stronger negative association with performance evaluations of central governments relative to performance evaluations of local governments. These results confirm that individual evaluations of public sector corruption affect perceived government performance evaluations, with local–local, local–central, central–local, and central–central level variances. Regressions by country groups—such as European Union membership, or geographic clusters, such as Southeastern Balkan or the former Soviet Union states—continue to support the core findings with one caveat. Results from two‐level random intercepts and slopes regression models show that the negative association between perceived corruption and government performance evaluation is weaker in contexts with relatively higher levels of public corruption.

Low-carbon economy is becoming the trend of world economic development, countries are gradually promote the transformation of social economic development. In the economic development mode shift from the traditional mode to the low-carbon mode process, to re-examine the objective requirements of Local Government Performance Evaluation System. Government performance is one of the important objectives of government reform, the key of government performance management is a scientific government performance evaluation index. At present, there exist some deviations in the performance evaluation index elements of local government such as excessive pursuit of economic growth, qualitative and quantitative assessment indicators set unreasonable, undue emphasis on performance indicators, as well as refinement of unified index system and other deviations. Low-carbon economic indicators and trends in terms of value-oriented performance evaluation is an important role. This article will examine the necessity of a low carbon economy targets into government performance system reform in government performance evaluation index system.

This study examines the relationship between the changes in the number of the COVID-19 confirmed cases and presidential approval ratings by using cases of infectious disease prevention management in Korea. Linking the pandemic quarantine with presidential approval, we apply a time-series spillover analysis to the daily poll data on Korean presidential approval ratings. The findings demonstrate that Moon s presidential approval ratings tend to rise with the health crisis caused by the spread of the COVID-19, because the public evaluating the countermeasures against the COVID-19 of Moon s administration are likely to support Moon when the issue of the COVID-19 is salient. We also find that changes in presidential approval ratings due to the fluctuations in the number of confirmed cases are not consistent but differentiated depending on the period, because of the fatigue of people with the pandemic.

Time and the life cycle of presidential approval: a research note

This paper analyzes the development concepts of the performance evaluation index system of Hangzhou Government based on the optimization model of Hangzhou’s government performance evaluation index system that emphasizes both on "Democracy and Standards". The paper can be divided into two parts, the first is to promote the standardization level of the performance evaluation index system, and the second is to stress on the improvements of standardization level of the performance evaluation index system. Performance evaluation of government public services is the core of government management, and it plays an extremely important role in improving administrative efficiency, reducing administrative costs and improving the capacity of government management and level of public service. The so-called government performance assessment refers to the government's evaluation of reasonableness of investment of resources, the whole process, the subjective efforts of public servants and the final outcomes. Affected by globalization and the information technology revolution since the 1990s, China has introduced the concept of performance evaluation into the government reform process to improve the level of government services, and to inject fresh momentum to the promotion the construction of a service-oriented government. In this context, Hangzhou has started its explorations and practices in government performance evaluation since in 1992 and has gradually established and improved the government performance evaluation system with "democracy and standard" as the main characteristic. This article attempts to summarize and discuss the characteristic achievements of Hangzhou government's performance evaluation system. Specifically, two paths are now available for the optimization of the performance of Hangzhou government's public service evaluation index:

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the time‐varying causality between presidential approval (PAR) and stock market performance, measured by stock returns and realised volatility, focussing on four prominent Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, from 1990M01 to 2016M05. We use a time‐varying causality test, which is robust to structural breaks, to uncover a bidirectional causal relationship between PAR and stock market performance. Our results remain robust when controlling for macroeconomic conditions, PAR in other Latin American countries and US PAR. Our analysis is extended to include the bond market, identifying a significant bivariate causal relationship between PAR and bond market performance.

The first objective of this study is to examine the effect of audit results on the local government performance. Secondly is examining the moderating role of good governance on the relationship between audit results and local government performance. This study collected 536 local governments data from 134 local authorities in Indonesia from 2016 to 2019. The data employed for audit results were extracted from findings and rectification of audit reports. For the Good Governance, this study develops the Good Governance Principles index by mapping the data taken from Evaluation of Local Government Performance by the Ministry of Home Affairs RI with IGI indicators. Meanwhile, the local government performances were measured using the total local own revenue. This study uses multiple moderated regression analyses to explain the relationship between the audit results and good governance on local government performance. As the result, it has a significant effect on both variables tested. This research also found a significant interaction between audit results and good governance on local government. These results assert that good governance enhances local government to be more effective in responding to audit results to improve their performances in the following years.

An empirical analysis of the green paradox in China: From the perspective of fiscal decentralization