Joint Research(Type Ⅳ）
Constructing Local Government Theory in Southeast Asia: on the Basis of
Local Government Survey in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia
Project Leader: NISHIMURA, Kenichi, Center for International Education
and Exchange, Osaka University
（Term：2011 - 2012）
- Joint Seminars in 2011 Fiscal Year
- Outline of Joint Research
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This research project aims to construct a local government theory in Southeast
Asia through conducting a series of survey research in Thailand, the Philippines
and Indonesia in the middle of 2011.
First half of 2011 will be devoted to revising the questions on the local
autonomy and people’s participation in local governance in the questionnaire
which has been designed for the survey research. Some field works to amass
information for revising the questionnaire will also be conducted in the
three countries.
After conducting the quantitative surveys in the three countries in the
second half 2011, the research team will conduct date cleaning and setting
common variables among three countries.
In 2012, we shall implement a statistical data analysis as well as conducting
some supplementary field works for data interpretation.
- Purpose of Joint Research
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This research project aims to analyze how, in which way and under what
conditions autonomy of local governments and people's participation affect
the quality of local governance in three decentralized countries, namely
Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Making good use of the survey
data from a research project, “Survey Research on Local Governance in Southeast
Asia: Comparative Study on Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines”, we
shall analyze the determinant factors of local autonomy and people’s participation
which affect the performance of local governance, based on the theory of
social survey and the statistical theory.
Previously, studies on local governance in Southeast Asia mainly concentrated
on static analysis of the judicial/institutional arrangements and/or individual
case studies. However, the quality of governance is not solely determined
by the judicial/institutional arrangement and case studies themselves don’t
have universal validity. By conducting a large survey of local governments,
this project aims at surmounting the problems mentioned above.This research
project is the first systematic research on local governance in Indonesia
and the Philippines, as for the Thailand, this will be the 2nd survey research
following the 1st survey conducted by a research team including Prof. Nagai
and Prof. Kagoya, both of whom are research members. Moreover,this research
project is a ground breaking endeavor to compare the present situation
of local governance in three major Southeast Asian countries.
The expected results of this research project are to show statistically
1) different and common factors of people’s participation in the three
countries, 2) differences in local autonomy in the three countries, and
3) features of the relationship between local autonomy and people’s participation
in each country.
- Outline of Result
- In the first half of 2011, we revised questions on the local autonomy and
people’s participation in local governance in the questionnaire which had
been designed for the survey research. In the second half, quantitative
surveys were conducted in the Philippines and Indonesia by Social Weather
Stations of the Philippines and Lembaga Suvei Indonesia under the survey
consignment contracts. In the Philippines, the interview survey with the
mayors and the municipal / city planning and development coordinators (M/CPDC)
from 300 cities and municipalities selected through random sampling was
conducted. As of middle of February in 2012, response rate of the mayors
is around 90% and almost 100% in the case of M/CPDC. In Indonesia, the
interview survey with the sekdas from 113 cities/towns in Java island was
conducted and its response rate as of middle of February in 2012 is around
90%. However, the response rate of the bupati / walikota from 500 cities
and towns by the method of mail survey is not yet on a satisfactory level
and we have been following it up. In Thailand, pretest was conducted in
several local administrative organizations to revise the questionnaire
which was utilized in the “Survey of Local Administrative Organization
in Thailand” conducted in 2006 by a research group of IDE-JETRO of which
Prof. Fumio Nagai of Osaka City University and Prof. Kazuhiro Kagoya of
Kanto Gakuin University were the members.
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