Does citizen participation affect municipal performance? Electoral competition and fiscal performance in Japan

Author(s):
Suzuki, K. (0000-0002-5403-4826); Han, Y.
Published
2018
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Subnational fiscal performance has been receiving a lot of attention from researchers in various disciplines. However, there is very little published on the impact of citizen involvement on fiscal performance. This paper shows that a lack of citizen involvement in the electoral process was associated with fiscal performance in all 807 city-level Japanese municipalities from 2006 to 2012.

Electoral competitionfiscal performanceJapanmunicipality
Date issued
2018-12-20
Language
English
Is part of
Public Money and Management (2018), Vol. 39, no. 4, p. 300-309
hdl
1887/76911
doi
10.1080/09540962.2018.1558554