Participation, transparency and trust in local governance in transitional countries: the case of Vietnam

IF 2.2 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Post-Communist Economies Pub Date : 2021-12-26 DOI:10.1080/14631377.2021.2006493

Thi Bich Hanh Tran, H. A. La

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The cynicism about government has induced administration reforms in both developed and transitional countries. However, the reform outcomes are not similar across countries and depend on the administrative context. In this paper, we employ the cultural-based administration approach to investigate the role of trust in citizen participation and the linking between participation and transparency in Vietnam. Using aggregated data at the district level from the Public Administration Performance Index in Vietnam in 2018–19 and considering the two-way association issue, we find that transparency is not always indicative of participation and trust is shown to be an important determinant of public participation. Furthermore, in addition to normative factors such as education levels and the proportion of rural citizens, trust plays a significant role in explaining the inverse relationship between participation and transparency. Our results contribute one more empirical evidence to the scarce literature that embeds the administration culture analysing administrative reform outcomes in transitional countries.

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过渡国家对地方治理的参与、透明度和信任：以越南为例

摘要对政府的冷嘲热讽引发了发达国家和转型国家的行政改革。然而，各国的改革结果并不相似，这取决于行政背景。在本文中，我们采用基于文化的管理方法来调查信任在越南公民参与中的作用以及参与与透明度之间的联系。使用2018-19年越南公共行政绩效指数的地区级汇总数据，并考虑到双向关联问题，我们发现透明度并不总是参与的指标，信任被证明是公众参与的重要决定因素。此外，除了教育水平和农村公民比例等规范性因素外，信任在解释参与与透明度之间的反比关系方面发挥着重要作用。我们的研究结果为嵌入分析转型国家行政改革结果的行政文化的稀缺文献提供了又一个实证证据。

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Post-Communist Economies ECONOMICS-

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4.90

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18.20%

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期刊介绍： Post-Communist Economies publishes key research and policy articles in the analysis of post-communist economies. The basic transformation in the past two decades through stabilisation, liberalisation and privatisation has been completed in virtually all of the former communist countries, but despite the dramatic changes that have taken place, the post-communist economies still form a clearly identifiable group, distinguished by the impact of the years of communist rule. Post-communist economies still present distinctive problems that make them a particular focus of research.