Measuring local government performance in Malaysia: political indicators versus organisational theory / Zaherawati Zakaria

There are localities in Malaysia where local government performance is
systematically superior and others where it is inferior. Similar institutions
perform that systematically perform better than others always raise queries
and objection among people. Recognizing the enormous practical implications
of this question for local democratic governance in Malaysia, this paper
looks at the decision-makers and researchers to assess and explain local
government performance. Thus, this paper looks at the concept of local
government performance and uses a wide variety of variables to gauge its
variance on the one hand, and its roots in economic, political, legal, cultural
and social factors on the other.