Good governance and its impact in improving administrative and financial performance: a case study of Nablus Municipality
Date
2016-12-07
Authors
kurdi hanani, fouad
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International Humanities Studies
Abstract
The study aims to investigate good governance in Nablus Municipality and its role in
improving the administrative and financial performance, in order to shed light on its financial
and administrative transparency practices, accountability indicators, process of information
disclosure and accessibility, and the procedures and mechanisms used to control financial and
administrative corruption. To achieve this, a 49-items scale developed by the researcher
which was administrated to three hundred and ten participants (two hundred and fifty
employees and sixty clients) was randomly selected. Data were statistically analyzed using
statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). Findings showed that good governance in
Nablus Municipality as experienced by the sample of three hundred and ten participants was
moderate. Out of the participants surveyed, 58.2% argued that Nablus Municipality had a
moderate level of good governance. The study recommends the need to issue laws and
regulations on the applications of governance in local institutions, to impose strict penalties
against perpetrators of financial and administrative corruption, and to consider corruption as
an offense against honor. Implications of the findings and directions for future empirical
research are discussed
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Good governance, , local government institutions , municipalities , financial and administrative disclosure