Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214311 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2004-25
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel
Abstract: 
Alienation to politics weakens political competition and can undermine the acceptance and legitimacy of democracy as a political system. Governance and representation problems at the local level cause part of citizens' lack of power and political alienation. Citizens have local power if they can influence the political process so that its outcomes are closer to their preferences and if they feel to be effective in the political sphere. In order to increase citizens' local power, we emphasize the role of institutions of local governance. Local democratic governance is concerned about the relationship between citizens and local government institutions, political representatives and officials. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by the federal structure of a nation's government and by the scope and depth of citizens' participation possibilities in the political process.
Subjects: 
collective decision-making
constitutional design
constitutional economics
direct democracy
fiscal federalism
local governance
local power
participation
JEL: 
D70
D71
D72
H10
H77
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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