... prevalence Municipal service quality Democracy Local governance Public participation has long been recognized as a central mechanism for advancing democratic governance and improving public sector performance (Fung, 2015). Scholars argue that incorporating citizen input can enhance government...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Democracy Impartiality Social media Personality traits Public servants Political activity Recent empirical work examining citizens’ online political behavior in the Westminster countries of Canada (Cooper, 2020) and Australia (Cooper...

... ambition” (p. 36). He quotes from Hamilton to underscore the Founders’ conviction that it is better for government to do too little than too much, better to regret that good laws did not pass than to regret that bad laws did. Democracy Accountability Constitution Reflecting upon 30 years...

... product, as the government is setting up more agencies to develop the work further. The implications of this paper are that there is a need for future academic work to relate accountability and democracy locally to new public management and its connection to the global ideology of neoliberalism...

...Najmul Abedin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the working of the Ombudsman offices in six developing democracies in the Commonwealth Caribbean in order to assess/evaluate the degree or extent of effectiveness of these offices. It aims to look at them from both...

... as signalling support for a centralist policy. The White Paper also calls for participatory democracy, respecting the nation’s history of active participation at local government and community levels in the struggle to remove apartheid. This, by contrast, could be interpreted as support for a pluralist policy...

... indispensable counterpart to pluralistic democracy, i.e. it extends the work of democracy and fulfils democratic aspirations. Consequently, any political reform aimed at democratizing institutions, will only be effective if it is accompanied by far‐reaching administrative reforms which effectively redistribute...

... 1996 Apartheid Democracy Governance Public sector Rights issues South Africa There are many events during the course of a transition which signal the passage from the old order to the new. In the period immediately following South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994...