Analysis of the Budget-ratcheting Phenomenon in Local Government Budgeting in West Sumatra Province
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.211117.035How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- agency theory; budget-ratcheting; local government; performance budgeting
- Abstract
Reformation that happened in Indonesia brought many changes in government system, which one is changes from centralized systems to decentralized systems. The decentralization systems constrain every local government to manage their own household affairs include budgeting process. Indonesia adopts performance budgeting that concern on outcome as the key characteristic. Based on agency theory, regional government acts as agent that runs the government budgeting process. In fact, budget preparation process has various risks and incrementalism in budgeting process often occurs which arises budget ratcheting. This study aims to identify whether budget-ratcheting phenomenon occurs in local government budgeting in West Sumatra province. The population of this study are 19 districts/cities in West Sumatera Province with total sampling method. This research classified as descriptive quantitative study. The result indicated that budget-ratcheting effect occurs in each component of local government revenue, balance fund and capital expenditure.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Vita Fitria Sari AU - Fefri Indra Arza AU - Annisa Ayu Syafitri PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/23 TI - Analysis of the Budget-ratcheting Phenomenon in Local Government Budgeting in West Sumatra Province BT - Proceedings of the Seventh Padang International Conference On Economics Education, Economics, Business and Management, Accounting and Entrepreneurship (PICEEBA 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 56 EP - 64 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.211117.035 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.211117.035 ID - Sari2021 ER -