Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between the practices of good governance and the quality of life at the municipal level in Spain. A composite indicator of the quality of life of 393 Spanish municipalities in 2011 is estimated using varied statistical information. For this purpose, we follow a benefit of the doubt approach based on Data Envelopment Analysis. Then three dimensions of good governance are considered: transparency, participation, and accountability. The results show a significant positive relationship between quality of life and participation and financial accountability. However, transparency seems to be unrelated to quality of life.
Highlights
With the turn of the century, several external emerging challenges have promoted important reforms at the public local level of government
Does transparency improve governance? Does quality of life relate to government efficiency or accountability? Are those regions with more civic engagement the ones in which good governance has promoted more welfare? The aim of this article is to analyze the relationship between quality of life conditions in municipalities and three key governance principles: transparency, participation, and financial accountability
We focus on the assessment of the relationship between the quality of life in Spanish municipalities and three of these dimensions, namely transparency, participation, and financial accountability, which can be measured with available municipal data
Summary
With the turn of the century, several external emerging challenges have promoted important reforms at the public local level of government. Municipalities had to cope with increasing fiscal pressures, exacerbated after the financial crisis and with increasing demands from the media and from citizens. This situation has fostered the need for extending collaboration among multiple policy-making agents, taking sustainability and concern about the needs of future generations to the center of the debate [1]). Conventional local management models have been extended to include good public governance principles. 316), good governance can be defined as “the negotiation by all the stakeholders in an issue (or area) of improved public policy outcomes and agreed governance principles, which are both implemented and regularly evaluated by all stakeholders” According to Bovaird and Löffler [6] (p. 316), good governance can be defined as “the negotiation by all the stakeholders in an issue (or area) of improved public policy outcomes and agreed governance principles, which are both implemented and regularly evaluated by all stakeholders”
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