01885pab a2200169 454500008004000000100001700040245009800057260000900155300001300164362000800177520138700185650003301572650002101605700001901626700001901645773005101664180718b2013   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aTaplin, Ross  aFinancial discrepancies in political party funding by Indonesian local government authorities  c2013  ap.16-25.  aJan  aThrough different forms of decentralization variables, this study investigates Indonesian local government authorities' 2006 financial accountability reports in terms of local government authorities' contributing funds to political parties. Audit results by the Supreme Audit Body reveal that many articles were violated by these authorities in regard to the distributing, administrating, and reporting of assistance funds from them to political parties. Each rupiah committed by the 221 local government authorities involved in this study violated, on average, 1.8 articles, indicating a low level of compliance.                                        Critically, the study finds that administrative, fiscal, and political decentralization decreases discrepancies. The less administratively decentralized provincial authorities, where decision making is a level of government farther from the people, are more likely than non-provincial local government authorities to make discrepancies with political party legislation and regulations. Fiscally decentralized local government authorities, who earn a higher fraction of their revenue from local sources, also tend to have fewer discrepanciesFinally, politically decentralized authorities with a higher percentage of elected officials from the decentralized supporting ruling coalition, also have fewer discrepancies. - Reproudced.  aLocal government - Indonesia  aLocal government  aBrow, Alistair  aRusmin, Rusmin  aInternational Journal of Public Administration