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SOCIAL CAPITAL AS A DETERMINANT OF LOCAL POLITICAL ELITE PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPMENT

GOVERNANCE: Jurnal Ilmiah Kajian Politik Lokal dan Pembangunan
ABSTRAK Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk membangun sebuah kerangka analitis yang dapat menjelaskan hubungan dinamis antara modal sosial dan kinerja elit politik lokal dalam konteks pembangunan. Melalui telaah literatur yang sistematis dan analisis konseptual yang mendalam, studi ini menggabungkan berbagai teori mutakhir dari ilmu politik, sosiologi, hingga
Wahyu Wulandari, Najmi Muhammad Fadli, Habib Budiman   +2 more
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From an alternative to a dominant form of local political actors? Independent candidates in the Czech local elections in 2010–2018

Local Government Studies, 2023
This article aims to contribute to the debate on the rise of independents in local politics and the underlying factors driving this trend in Europe by investigating the situation in Czechia, a post-communist country with a highly fragmented local ...
Tomáš Kostelecký, Josef Bernard, Z. Mansfeldová, Renáta Mikešová   +3 more
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Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough

Local Government Studies, 2023
The majority of studies on local politics and politicisation have focused on the study of electoral participation, political parties or civil society. The qualitative dimension of politicisation within local institutions has thus been overlooked.
C. Patsias, Sylvie Patsias
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Rethinking Elites: Networks, Space, and Local Politics [PDF]

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1998
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in researching elite groups; however the term ‘elite’ has remained largely untheorised and unproblematised in much of the resulting literature. I attempt to question what is meant by the term ‘elite’, how the term may be given a deeper conceptual relevance, and what the consequences of this might be for
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Political Business Cycle in Local Governments in Transition and Developing Economies. Literature Review and Empirical Study for Poland

Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 2022
Theory of political business cycles in democratic systems indicates that politicians have an incentive to operate with different economic instruments to acquire voters or secure re-election.
B. Filipiak, Krzysztof Kluza
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Framing the Localization of the Global Agendas: Orchestrating the Political Agency of Cities Within the Local-Global Nexus

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2022
The article delves into the legitimation strategies enacted by city networks to raise their profile within the state-centric global governance architecture, contributing to the body of literature on the rising transnational dynamism of cities from the ...
Ricardo Martinez
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Assumptive World of Local Political Elites

Urban Affairs Review, 1996
Mayors' behavior is a reflection not only of constituent preferences but also of their own beliefs, values, and perceptions-their assumptive worlds. The authors analyze the responses of Detroit-area mayors to questions about their orientation to the local citizenry, perception of the most important role(s) of local government, task role(s ...
Harold L. Wolman, Coit Cook Ford
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“Division at Home, Unity Abroad? The Impact of Local and International Dynamics on Political Opportunity Structure in the Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Secure Highway Conflict”

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2022
This article observes developments in the construction of a controversial highway project through the protected TIPNIS territory in Bolivia’s Amazonian region between 2003 and 2021. The case study uses theories of political opportunity structure to guide
M. Buice
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments

Local Government Studies, 2021
This article provides an analysis of the moderating role played by political ideology in transparency, thereby contributing to the growing body of literature on the topic of local government transparency.
Francisca Tejedo-Romero, Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves Araujo   +1 more
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Why go local? Developing the research agenda for “local political theory”

European Journal of Political Theory
This methodological article explores “the local” as a distinct context for political theorizing, and considers its role in normative labor. In doing so, we examine how political theorists can “go local”; arguing that engagement with the local dimension ...
Marta Wojciechowska, James Hickson
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