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The paper's primary goal is to analyze the effects of politics and administrative capacity on countries' innovative performance. The inquiry comparatively examines possible correlations between democracy, political competition, income inequality, bureaucratic capacity, and corruption/transparency with countries' innovation results. The dependent variables are three performance indicators of the Global Innovation Indexes (GII). After presenting the theory and the descriptive data analysis on the research variables, the paper runs multivariate regression models to test the hypotheses. The empirical analysis reinforced that political and administrative dimensions are relevant to understanding the national innovation systems' achievements. However, democracy, bureaucracy quality and corruption/transparency are not influential factors in countries' innovative results as the normative assumptions would suppose. On the contrary, political competition and inequality considerably impact how economies innovate. In conclusion, the paper brought original and intriguing findings that put in perspective the claim that there is a unique path or rule of thumb for innovation growth. Consequently, the inferences provide insights to scholars and stakeholders, public and private, to improve the debates and decisions regarding the priorities for government actions in times of evidence-based policymaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a monographic issue on the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan and administrative capacity in Spain. It emphasizes the importance of reflecting on the deficiencies in the administrative capacities of some Spanish administrations. The temporary recovery instrument Next Generation EU (NGEU) is mentioned, as well as its objective of financing reforms in six priority areas. Additionally, the article highlights the link between NGEU and the political ambitions of the institutional cycle 2019-2024 and the multiannual financial framework 2021-2027. The article explores the concept of administrative capacity and its relationship with resource mobilization for the implementation of plans and programs. It also analyzes the impact of the reform of local public procurement on the efficiency of managing EU investments in Spanish municipalities, and examines the role of Parliament in improving administrative capacity and democratic control of the execution of European funds. [Extracted from the article]

In July 2020, the European Commission agreed on an aid package, the so-called Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RRM), for which Spain would receive no less than 140 billion. For its management, the government developed the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan where, in addition, it would establish not only what investment project would be made but also the reforms to be applied. However, the recent experience of the Spanish administration revealed a significant difficulty in executing the European funds associated with the Multiannual Financial Framework 14-20. This difficulty, of which both the Spanish administration itself and the European Commission are aware, forces us to review the determinants of administrative capacity in our country as well as the possible necessary changes. In this paper we explore the relationship between administrative capacity and execution of funds as well as the necessary actions that must be carried out to improve the capacity and efficiency of administrations in the execution of funds that will be decisive for the future of Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literature emphasizes the importance of strengthening the administrative capacity of States to guarantee an efficient use of EU funds. In the context of the Spanish Plan of Recovery, Transformation and Resiliency to distribute Next Generation EU funds, this article explores the role of the Spanish parliament in the improvement of this administrative capacity. We argue that it can contribute in two ways. First, reinforcing the accountability of public administration. Second, promoting the participation of authorities and public officials in the design and analysis of public policies. With the goal to explore how the parliament has developed these functions, the article analyzes the parliamentary control activity on public administrations during the period 1979-2019, based on the study of parliamentary questions introduced in plenary sessions and committees. It also take into account all the parliamentary appearances of public officials and authorities for the period 1986-2019. Results illustrate, on the one hand, that political control on public administrations is very low and, even if it has diversified compared to the eighties, it has significantly decreased over time. On the other hand, the participation of public officials and authorities takes place mainly on economy and budget issues, and through posts of political confidence, more than with a technical profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The success of EU cohesion policy, as it happens more generally with the public policies that are made at the EU level, is dependent on the administrative capacity of the public organizations with implementing powers within each Member State, including the regional and local tiers. The necessity to develop these skills in different territories and sectors, to guarantee the execution of the investments assigned, has required the European Commission, in cooperation with the OECD in some initiatives, to provide diverse tools for national Administrations to help them to strengthen these skills. This contribution reviews the conceptual literature on policy capacity, and it clarifies the definition of administrative capacity. Furthermore, it examines various empirical papers that deal with the link between administrative capacity and the absorption of EU funds, along with the main projects for administrative capacity development that have been conducted by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recensión de la monografía de John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy y Tatjana Muravska: EU Cohesion Policy. Reassessing performance and direction, Londres y Nueva York, Routledge, 2017, 345 pp.

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El presente artículo realiza un análisis sobre la capacidad de gestión administrativa de los municipios peruanos, tomando como estudio de caso seis municipios de la Región Ica. Las capacidades administrativas de los gobiernos municipales pueden ser valoradas a partir del análisis de sus estructuras orgánicas municipales. Para el análisis de ello, se establecieron 3 indicadores: la gestión y planificación municipal, los recursos humanos y los recursos materiales. Los índices muestran que las capacidades de gestión de los municipios objeto de estudio se encuentran en una situación deficiente. Como consecuencia de ello, no hay un rumbo definido de la administración municipal, puesto que el manejo se direcciona a atender improvisadamente todo sin un plan a largo plazo. Asimismo, existe una falta de interés por parte de los funcionarios municipales por innovar y mejorar la capacidad de gestión administrativa de sus respectivos municipios. Sobre todo, funciones relacionadas a planificación, gestión de unidades administrativas de estructura básica municipal y sistemas administrativos municipales, lo cual se aprecia con mayor énfasis en los municipios rurales, de acuerdo a los datos mostrados.

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Many studies that evaluate public policy conclude that most of the failures are due to a lack of institu- tional capacities of state agencies. However, what do we mean by institutional capacity? Which are their different conceptions? And what are the axes for its analysis? This work seeks to contribute to the conceptualization of institutional capacity and it presents a methodology that allows its analysis. One of the conclusions is that institutional capacity has evolved to give answer to new problems and new public management systems however the concept was used arbitrarily and the wide range of views and variables used have undermined ef- fective evaluations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este trabalho mostra os resultados de uma observação empírica nos Núcleos da Defensoria da Região Metropolitana de Belém e nos Núcleos dos municípios de Marabá e Santarém, no Pará. Com algumas modificações, inspira-se na ideia de sistemas autorreferenciais proposta por Niklas Luhmann. A observação de primeiro grau operacionalizada a partir de questionários tem por objetivo analisar a capacidade institucional-administrativa da Defensoria Pública, partindo de um esquema formado pela convergência de diversos conceitos teóricos para a observação e compreensão das organizações públicas. A observação de segundo grau é operacionalizada a partir de entrevistas semiestruturadas.

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La transformación del Sistema General de Regalías (SGR) atiende al desarrollo territorial y al mejoramiento de las condiciones de bienestar de los habitantes de municipios y departamentos, por lo que se esperaría un impacto significativo frente a las condiciones de desequilibrio territorial. Este artículo evalúa el impacto de la transformación del SGR en el desarrollo territorial. Primero, se examina el cambio en el sistema, sus causas y sus beneficios. Seguidamente, se analizan las dinámicas de las economías departamentales, así como el crecimiento económico departamental en los últimos veinte años, para establecer las condiciones sobre las que partió el sistema. En tercer lugar, se establece su contribución al desarrollo territorial, los sectores que atiende y las entidades territoriales beneficiarias del mismo. Finalmente, se evalúa la relación entre capacidad administrativa municipal y asignación de recursos de regalías, que muestran indicios de influencia política en la aprobación de proyectos a las entidades territoriales.

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El concepto de eficiencia ha sido precisado y simplificado por los autores de la teoría clásica de la administración en el sentido de maximizar la producción de las organizaciones con los mínimos costos. En el presente artículo se analizará la eficiencia interna y global de las organizaciones de acuerdo con nuevos criterios adicionales que permitan estudiar el problema con un enfoque de mayor complejidad la naturaleza, fines y estructura de las organizaciones, entre ellos la incidencia del factor de este siglo denominado capacidad administrativa.

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At this point there are several central and local governments that are driving actions to address climate change, but the results may be affected, inter alia, by its own institutional capacity. In this sense, this paper seeks to analyze the institutional capacity the Federal District (DF) is building to address the climate change through one of its components, the administrative capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intention of this paper is to build a methodological route for the study and analysis of the institutional capacity. To understand the institutional capacity is important to explore the following questions: by whom it is exercised?, how does it express?, where is it exercised?, which is the importance of the social actors in the above mentioned capacity?, and what role does it plays the institutional capacity in the public action? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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