IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibn/masjnl/v10y2016i9p46.html

Analysis of the Performance of Municipalities in Terms of Urban Good Governance in Shahrekords

Author

Listed:
  • Zohreh Hadiani
  • Ezzatollah Ghasemi

Abstract

Nowadays, increasing cities population and difficulties due to the centralized programming approach that leading to the disorderliness in cities at one side and awareness and increasing citizens rights at the other side; necessitate the reexamining in urban management and city management. due to the radical changes in cities’ developmental management, in addition to the mentioned approach, we need to deploy a decentralized approach in urban organization or apply a good urban governance with citizens cooperation simultaneously, so for removing current problems in urban development we should take into account the local organizations and governmental and non-governmental organization. The goal of this research is to consider Shahrekord performance in the framework of good urban governance. The research method is descriptive-analytical method, and data and information for this research gathered through field study and used measuring method, and subjects include sample of 330 shahrekod citizens. In this research we applied four standards for good urban governance i.e cooperation, efficiency, transparency and accountability, and for data processing and analyzing we used SPSS software. Findings show that efficiency has a mean equals to 2.95, cooperation 2.67, accountability with a satisfying mean equals to 2.59, and transparency is 2.58. so shahrekords’ municipal performance in the framework of good performance is unsuitable, so research hypothesis which imply on suitable municipal performance at the framework of good urban management is unsatisfying and not being proven.

Suggested Citation

  • Zohreh Hadiani & Ezzatollah Ghasemi, 2016. "Analysis of the Performance of Municipalities in Terms of Urban Good Governance in Shahrekords," Modern Applied Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(9), pages 1-46, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:masjnl:v:10:y:2016:i:9:p:46
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/mas/article/download/60171/32296
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/mas/article/view/60171
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Batterbury, Simon P.J. & Fernando, Jude L., 2006. "Rescaling Governance and the Impacts of Political and Environmental Decentralization: An Introduction," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 34(11), pages 1851-1863, November.
    2. Gore, Tony & Wells, Peter, 2009. "Governance and evaluation: The case of EU regional policy horizontal priorities," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 32(2), pages 158-167, May.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Julia Brown, 2014. "Evaluating Participatory Initiatives in South Africa," SAGE Open, , vol. 4(2), pages 21582440145, April.
    2. Mazzeo Rinaldi, Francesco, 2016. "From local development policies to strategic planning—Assessing continuity in institutional coalitions," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 76-87.
    3. Fischer, Harry W. & Ali, Syed Shoaib, 2019. "Reshaping the public domain: Decentralization, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), and trajectories of local democracy in rural India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 147-158.
    4. Sarkki, Simo & Heikkinen, Hannu I. & Herva, Vesa-Pekka & Saarinen, Jarkko, 2018. "Myths on local use of natural resources and social equity of land use governance: Reindeer herding in Finland," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 322-331.
    5. Verbrugge, Boris, 2015. "Decentralization, Institutional Ambiguity, and Mineral Resource Conflict in Mindanao, Philippines," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 449-460.
    6. Shukui Tan & Haipeng Song & Ghulam Akhmat & Javeed Hussain, 2014. "Governing Harmonious Human Engagement with the Spatial Capital," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 6(3), pages 1-19, March.
    7. Ying Wang & Nick Clarke, 2021. "FOUR MODES OF NEIGHBOURHOOD GOVERNANCE: The View from Nanjing, China," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(3), pages 535-554, May.
    8. Maxwell Chukwudi Udeagha & Edwin Muchapondwa, 2023. "Achieving regional sustainability and carbon neutrality target in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa economies: Understanding the importance of fiscal decentralization, export diversification and environmental innovation," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(4), pages 2620-2635, August.
    9. Michael Chappell & Liliana LaValle, 2011. "Food security and biodiversity: can we have both? An agroecological analysis," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 28(1), pages 3-26, February.
    10. Phrakhruopatnontakitti & Busakorn Watthanabut & Kittisak Jermsittiparsert, 2020. "Does CO2 Emission Have Any Link With the Change Democratic Conditions in ASEAN Countries?," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 10(3), pages 196-203.
    11. Yu, Xuewei & Zhou, Junting & Ni, Kejin & Wang, Xiaobing, 2025. "Environmental centralization and firm green transition: Evidence from County-to-District reclassification in China," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
    12. Feihong Zheng & Rongxin Diao & Hongsheng Che, 2024. "Environmental Decentralization, Digital Financial Inclusion, and the Green Transformation of Industries in Resource-Based Cities in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(17), pages 1-26, September.
    13. Géraldine Froger & Philippe Méral, 2008. "Introduction," Mondes en développement, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(1), pages 7-10.
    14. Li, He & Lu, Juan, 2021. "Can stable environmental protection officials’ tenure reduce illegal emissions?," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    15. Cheng, Ya & Awan, Usama & Ahmad, Shabbir & Tan, Zhixiong, 2021. "How do technological innovation and fiscal decentralization affect the environment? A story of the fourth industrial revolution and sustainable growth," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 162(C).
    16. Kuriyan, Renee & Ray, Isha, 2009. "Outsourcing the State? Public-Private Partnerships and Information Technologies in India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 37(10), pages 1663-1673, October.
    17. Cheng, Shulei & Fan, Wei & Chen, Jiandong & Meng, Fanxin & Liu, Gengyuan & Song, Malin & Yang, Zhifeng, 2020. "The impact of fiscal decentralization on CO2 emissions in China," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    18. Sophie Blackburn, 2018. "What Does Transformation Look Like? Post-Disaster Politics and the Case for Progressive Rehabilitation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-18, July.
    19. Floriane Clement, 2010. "Analysing decentralised natural resource governance: proposition for a “politicised” institutional analysis and development framework," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 43(2), pages 129-156, June.
    20. Popovici, Ruxandra & Erwin, Anna & Ma, Zhao & Prokopy, Linda S. & Zanotti, Laura & Bocardo Delgado, Edwin Fredy & Pinto Cáceres, José Porfirio & Zeballos Zeballos, Eliseo & Salas O’Brien, Emma Patrici, 2021. "Outsourcing governance in Peru’s integrated water resources management," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ibn:masjnl:v:10:y:2016:i:9:p:46. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Canadian Center of Science and Education (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.