The electronic voting system of Brazil is widely trusted by the citizens of the country and international observers as an efficient and reliable mechanism of producing elections results that accurately represent the choices of the electorate. In this paper we examine the conditions contributing to such an attitude of trust towards a government institution. We argue that the observed trust is on...

This paper explains the transformation of Pancasila as an institution that governs state religion relations in Indonesia. Why has Pancasila been stable at the national level but discontinuous at the subnational level since Indonesia’s democratic transition and decentralization? By tracing Pancasila’s history back to its origin, this paper demonstrates that territorial interest has been an impor...

Many important social choice problems involve selecting a single community (the “host”) to bear the cost of a project which yields positive net benefit for society as a whole (referred to as NIMBYs, for "Not In My Back Yard"). For example, society needs to dispose of its waste, but no one wants a waste facility in their backyard. This paper asks: Should NIMBYs be sited by market or government? ...

The development of information and communication technologies depend on several factors like government policy that encourage investors to spend their money in building IT infrastructure and force business or particular institution to adopt the new technologies to bring the price down and many others. This paper investigates the state of Information and Communication Technology in Iran. Keyword...

In May of 1992 the Mexican federal government transferred to the 31 states responsibility over basic and teacher education. This decentralization strategy was at the core of an overall educational reform that began in late 1980's. The central government had strong motives to decentralize the educational institution because the highly centralized system was notoriously rigid, inefficient, confli...

Fiscal decentralisation can be defined as a two-dimensional policy institution that involves either decentralisation of a tax instrument, when local governments have the power to raise taxes, or decentralisation of expenditures when local governments bear the responsibility for implementing expenditure functions. The way in which fiscal decentralisation affects the "quality" of government activ...

This paper investigates the relationship between e-governance and workflow systems which are seen as a tool for improving government processes. The study is based on a real case at the 'Centre Régional d'Investissement' (CRI) of Marrakech, Morocco. The CRI is a government institution entrusted to coordinate various investment projects at the regional level. This paper presents th...