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

Suzuki, K.; Han, Y. (2018)

Article / Letter to editor

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 competition
• fiscal performance
• Japan
• municipality

• All authors: Suzuki, K.; Han, Y.
• Date: 2018-12-20
• Journal: Public Money and Management
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 300 - 309
• DOI: doi:10.1080/09540962.2018.1558554