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Social reports of an Italian provincial government: a longitudinal analysis
PurposeThis paper aims to examine the non-financial information disclosed in social reports by an Italian provincial government over time to determine its relevance, contribution and evolution.Design/methodology/approachThrough a case study analysis, the authors examine 10 years of social reports by one “best practice” Italian provincial government. The authors use content analysis to quantify the level of social and environmental disclosures and use a coding instrument based on the GRI guidelines. The authors use legitimacy theory as a framework.FindingsThe level of disclosure increased over the 10-year period, and the type of disclosures became more detailed. However, many of the economic, social and environmental elements set out in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines were not disclosed. Moreover, the social report was contingent on a few key factors. The authors find that there has been a decline in interest in social reports by local governments in Italy, suggesting that voluntary disclosure was perhaps a fad that no longer is of interest in Italian local government.Research limitations/implicationsThis research is one case study so the findings are not generalisable. The findings suggest that there is a need for regulation in non-financial information disclosures, as the disclosures in the case study organisation were very much at the discretion of the organisation. This has implications for policymakers.Originality/valueUnlike prior studies, this study takes a longitudinal approach to voluntary disclosure of non-financial information and focusses on the under-explored context of public sector organisations.
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Sources of Authoritarian Responsiveness: A Field Experiment in China
A growing body of research suggests that authoritarian regimes are responsive to societal actors, but our understanding of the sources of authoritarian responsiveness remains limited because of the challenges of measurement and causal identification. By conducting an online field experiment among 2,103 Chinese counties, we examine factors that affect officials' incentives to respond to citizens in an authoritarian context. At baseline, we find that approximately one-third of county governments respond to citizen demands expressed online. Threats of collective action and threats of tattling to upper levels of government cause county governments to be considerably more responsive, whereas identifying as loyal, long-standing members of the Chinese Communist Party does not increase responsiveness. Moreover, we find that threats of collective action make local officials more publicly responsive. Together, these results demonstrate that top-down mechanisms of oversight as well as bottom-up societal pressures are possible sources of authoritarian responsiveness.
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Transforming provincial politics : the political economy of Canada's provinces and territories in the neoliberal era
Transforming Provincial Politics is the first province-by-province analysis of politics and political economy in more than a decade, and the first to directly examine the turn to neoliberal policies at the provincial and territorial level and examines how neoliberal policies have affected politics in each jurisdiction in Canada.
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Mengukur transparansi pengelolaan keuangan daerah di Indonesia: berbasis website
This study aims to measure the transparency of local financial management in Indonesia by focusing on three main stages (aspects) of local financial management, namely the aspects of planning, implementation, and reporting and accountability of the budget. In addition, this study also aimed to cover up the limitations of previous studies that measure the transparency of local financial management. This research was conducted in 34 provincial governments in Indonesia. The data used is the local financial management of the fiscal year 2016. Observations and data collection commenced on November 1 to 31, 2016 for the first period and the second period began in 1-10 January 2017. The second period carried out to check the availability of the data on the provincial government's official website. Based on observations, it was found that the average level of local transparency management is still very small (low), which is equal to 16.84%. The highest-ranking provincial government is a Provincial Government of Central Java with an index of 50% and the lowest is the Provincial Government of Southeast Sulawesi, Provincial Government of West Sulawesi, Provincial Government of North Maluku, and Provincial Government of West Papua with the index transparency of local financial management respectively of 3.45%.
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Doing politics differently? : women premiers in Canada's provinces and territories
\"Women have reached the highest levels of public office in Canada's provinces and territories, but what difference - if any - has their rise to the top made? Have they changed the content, tone, and style of politics? What role has gender played in their triumph and defeat? In Doing Politics Differently? leading researchers from across the country assess the track records of eleven premiers, including their impact on policies of particular interest to women and their influence on the tenor of legislative debate and the recruitment of other women as party candidates, cabinet ministers, and senior bureaucrats. Canada stands out for the variety and number of women who have reached the top in sub-national government. By evaluating the performance of women premiers across the country and comparing their records with those of men who preceded and succeeded them, this innovative volume probes how important demographic diversity is to government decision making.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hayek, Local Information, and Commanding Heights: Decentralizing State-Owned Enterprises in China
Hayek (1945) argues that local information is key to understanding the efficiency of alternative economic systems and whether production should be centralized or decentralized. The Chinese experience of decentralizing SOEs confirms this insight: when the distance to the government is farther, the SOE is more likely to be decentralized, and this distance-decentralization link is more pronounced with higher communication costs and greater firm-performance heterogeneity. However, when the Chinese central government oversees SOEs in strategic industries, the distance-decentralization link is muted. We also consider alternative agency-cost-based explanations, and do not find much support.
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After the Prosperous Age : State and Elites in early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou
\"By analyzing the social and cultural interplay between state power and local elites of Suzhou, a city renowned for its economic prosperity and local pride, from the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, this illuminates the significance of this period in the reformulation of state-elite relations marked by elite public activism and the dissolution of centralized cultural order\"--Provided by publisher.
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Spinal Cord Injury
An estimated 11,000 spinal cord injuries occur each year in the United
States and more than 200,000 Americans suffer from maladies associated
with spinal cord injury. This includes paralysis, bowel and bladder dysfunction,
sexual dysfunction, respiratory impairment, temperature regulation
problems, and chronic pain. During the last two decades, longstanding
beliefs about the inability of the adult central nervous system to heal itself
have been eroded by the flood of new information from research in the
neurosciences and related fields. However, there are still no cures and the
challenge of restoring function in the wake of spinal cord injuries remains
extremely complex.
Spinal Cord Injury examines the future directions for research with the
goal to accelerate the development of cures for spinal cord injuries. While
many of the recommendations are framed within the context of the specific
needs articulated by the New York Spinal Cord Injury Research Board,
the Institute of Medicine's panel of experts looked very broadly at research
priorities relating to future directions for the field in general and make recommendations
to strengthen and coordinate the existing infrastructure.
Funders at federal and state agencies, academic organizations, pharmaceutical
and device companies, and non-profit organizations will all find this
book to be an essential resource as they examine their opportunities.
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