Does citizen participation affect municipal performance? Electoral competition and fiscal performance in Japan |
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| Authors: | Kohei Suzuki Yousueng Han |
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| Institution: | 1. Research Fellow in the Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden;2. Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, USA |
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| 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. |
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| Keywords: | Electoral competition fiscal performance Japan municipality |
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