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Contemporary Local Governance, Wellbeing and Sustainability
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Special Issue "Contemporary Local Governance, Wellbeing and Sustainability"

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Contemporary Politics and Society".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2023 | Viewed by 939

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Pedro Miguel Alves Ribeiro Correia

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Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, 3004-531 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: public administration; public policy; statistics; data analysis; social sciences; law special issue information
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Dear Colleagues,

Contemporary local public and private organizations co-exist in a delicate environment characterized by continuous change. This change has a potentially high impact on local governance dynamics and exerts pressure on the strategy of local authorities and the achievement of their goals.

Sustainability and wellbeing are key factors for local administrations. They are crucial for the implementation of local governance strategies aimed at improving their performance and at the fulfilment of their mission. One way to look at the subject is to consider that in the context of contemporary local governance, sustainability and wellbeing can be regarded as extensions of quality of living: the orientation of local governments, authorities, administrations, organizations, institutions, and agents toward the citizen while simultaneously obtaining the desired results—efficacy and efficiency.

Academic and scientific literature and recent empirical studies reveal the multifactorial nature of this complex subject. Contemporary local governance is composed of a series of dimensions that include environment; urbanism and housing; accessibility, mobility, and transportation; education; economy; health; cultural identity; happiness with life; diversity; tourism; and security.

This Special Issue will embrace an assortment of papers presenting original, innovative, and scientific contributions to the subject, aiming to answer the following question: how does contemporary local governance relates to and how can it contribute to the improvement of wellbeing and sustainability?

Dr. Pedro Miguel Alves Ribeiro Correia
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Social Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • local governance
  • wellbeing
  • sustainability
  • public administration
  • public sector
  • private sector
  • organizational behavior
  • best municipalities to live in
  • local management
  • local government

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Public Trust in the Time of Pandemic: An Analysis of Social Networks in the Discourse of Large-Scale Social Restrictions in Indonesia
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Caroline Paskarina
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(3), 186; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12030186 - 18 Mar 2023
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This article discusses public trust in the Indonesian government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, explicitly focusing on the discourse surrounding large-scale social restrictions (LSSR). In a time of uncertainty, the public requires timely and actual information, most of which is gathered through online [...] Read more.
This article discusses public trust in the Indonesian government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, explicitly focusing on the discourse surrounding large-scale social restrictions (LSSR). In a time of uncertainty, the public requires timely and actual information, most of which is gathered through online media, with Twitter being one such medium. This article applies social network analysis to examine how information about the restrictions is shared and discussed on social media platforms and how this discourse may impact public trust in government institutions in the first phase of pandemic handling. Although LSSR is the government’s policy, this study shows that the interpersonal network plays a more significant part in distributing information, indicating a legitimacy crisis of formal and authoritative sources of information. The negative sentiment voiced by critics did not show public rejection of the implementation of LSSR. On the contrary, what was implied by those critics was public doubt against the consistency and firmness of LSSR implementation—because of this, restoring public trust requires planned information management to communicate risks to those who are affected by LSSR implementation, as well as managing negative sentiments that arise as a response. Full article
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