Evidence from Albania: local government, public goods, and the free-rider problem
Public goods and their benefits are necessarily related to their nature. From an economic point of view, citizens are always looking for more and more public goods, judging that they should always finance them even less. Especially in a democracy, it is sufficient to remember that people who don...
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| description | Public goods and their benefits are necessarily related to their nature. From an economic point of view, citizens are always looking for more and more public goods, judging that they should always finance them even less. Especially in a democracy, it is sufficient to remember that people who don't vote still benefit from the government's agenda. Mainly in developing countries and especially in ex-communist ones, the public does not have enough literacy and interest to understand the issues of public finance, political economy, the fiscal system, legal and political systems, social paradigms, and economics. So, it generally attributes the provision of public goods necessarily to the central and local governments without understanding or knowing any of the elements of the public goods ecosystem. So it seems that everything that the local government provides must be of high quality and be free, which proves evidence and traces of one of the main problems of public goods, which is the free-rider problem. From the research point of view, regardless of the moderation made by the civil society for the awareness of the social contract as well as the transparency of the economic activity of the municipalities, the citizens' awareness about the nature and problems of the provision of public goods still remains a concern. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to address the free-rider problem as an issue that must be recognized and considered so that optimal local legal regulations can be formulated, especially in small communities like Vlora municipality, where the free-rider problem is on a smaller scale compared to larger municipalities in the world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2cb1e2cf2534f87a4205ac7b07866912024-03-01T04:56:19ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Political Science2673-31452024-03-01610.3389/fpos.2024.12802601280260Evidence from Albania: local government, public goods, and the free-rider problemRudina Lipi0Ilirjan Lipi1Evis Kumi2Etleva Leskaj3Finance and Accounting Department, University of Vlora Ismail Qemali, Vlorë, AlbaniaDepartment of Business Administration, University of Vlora Ismail Qemali, Vlorë, AlbaniaBusiness Management Department, Metropolitan University of Tirana, Tirana, AlbaniaDepartment of Management, University of Tirana, Tirana, AlbaniaPublic goods and their benefits are necessarily related to their nature. From an economic point of view, citizens are always looking for more and more public goods, judging that they should always finance them even less. Especially in a democracy, it is sufficient to remember that people who don't vote still benefit from the government's agenda. Mainly in developing countries and especially in ex-communist ones, the public does not have enough literacy and interest to understand the issues of public finance, political economy, the fiscal system, legal and political systems, social paradigms, and economics. So, it generally attributes the provision of public goods necessarily to the central and local governments without understanding or knowing any of the elements of the public goods ecosystem. So it seems that everything that the local government provides must be of high quality and be free, which proves evidence and traces of one of the main problems of public goods, which is the free-rider problem. From the research point of view, regardless of the moderation made by the civil society for the awareness of the social contract as well as the transparency of the economic activity of the municipalities, the citizens' awareness about the nature and problems of the provision of public goods still remains a concern. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to address the free-rider problem as an issue that must be recognized and considered so that optimal local legal regulations can be formulated, especially in small communities like Vlora municipality, where the free-rider problem is on a smaller scale compared to larger municipalities in the world.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2024.1280260/fullpublic goodsfree-rider problemlocal governmentpublic goods provisioncollective actiongood local governance |
| spellingShingle | Rudina Lipi Ilirjan Lipi Evis Kumi Etleva Leskaj Evidence from Albania: local government, public goods, and the free-rider problem Frontiers in Political Science public goods free-rider problem local government public goods provision collective action good local governance |
| title | Evidence from Albania: local government, public goods, and the free-rider problem |
| title_full | Evidence from Albania: local government, public goods, and the free-rider problem |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Evidence from Albania: local government, public goods, and the free-rider problem |
| title_short | Evidence from Albania: local government, public goods, and the free-rider problem |
| title_sort | evidence from albania local government public goods and the free rider problem |
| topic | public goods free-rider problem local government public goods provision collective action good local governance |
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