Tavares, António
Adjunct Associate Professor
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- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-EGOV
- OFFICE:
- Rua de Vila Flor 166, 4810-445 Guimarães, Portugal
- E-MAIL:
- tavares@unu.edu
- PHONE:
- n/a
Research Interests
- Accountability in government
- Local government service delivery
- Participation in government
- Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (EGOV)
- Transparency in government
- Urban and regional governance
Education
- PhD, Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University, USA (2003)
- MPA, Public Administration, University of Minho, Portugal (1997)
Biographical Statement
António Tavares is Adjunct Associate Professor at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV). He is also Associate Professor and Director of the PhD in Administrative Sciences programme, and Chair of the Department of International Relations and Public Administration at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
He is co-editor of the Urban Affairs Review, the journal affiliated with the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. His research interests comprise topics in the fields of local government and urban politics, including policy-driven electronic governance, territorial reforms, urban and regional governance, and political and civic engagement. His research has been published in a wide range of journals in political science, public administration and urban studies, including the Journal of Urban Affairs, Local Government Studies, Policy Studies Journal, International Review of Administrative Sciences, and Public Management Review. He is a member of the team that annually publishes the Municipal Transparency Index, based on information available on the official websites of Portuguese local governments.
António received a PhD in Public Administration and Policy from the Reubin O’D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University, a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Minho, Portugal, and a BA in Organizational Sociology from the University of Minho, Portugal. He teaches Local Government, Theories of the Policy Process, and Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation and is involved in professional training for upper-level civil servants in the fields of public policy and public administration.
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Articles
- Tavares, António, J. Camões, Pedro and Martins, João (2023). Joining the open government partnership initiative: An empirical analysis of diffusion effects. Government Information Quarterly, 40(2), 1-12
- Tavares, António, Moreno Pires, Sara and Teles, Filipe (2021). Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policyvenues: An analysis of citizen complaints againstthe local government to the national Ombudsman. Public Administration, 1-19
- J. Camões, Pedro, Tavares, António and Teles, Filipe (2021). Assessing the intensity of cooperation: A study of joint delegation of municipal functions to inter-municipal associations. Local Government Studies, 47(4), 593-615
- Tavares, António and Rodrigues, Miguel (2020). The effects of amalgamations on voter turnout: Evidence from sub-municipal governments in Portugal. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 101, 1757-1772
- Tavares, António, Raudla, Ringa and Silva, Tiago (2020). Best of both worlds? Independent lists and voter turnout in local elections. Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(7), 955-974
- Roeger, Alexandra and Tavares, António (2020). Do Governance Arrangements Affect the Voluntary Adoption of Water Safety Plans? An Empirical Study of Water Utilities in Portugal. Water Resources Management, 34, 1757-1772
- Szmigiel-Rawska, Katarzyna, Łukomska, Julita and Tavares, António (2020). The Anatomy of Choice: An Analysis of the Determinants of Local Service Delivery in Poland. Local Government Studies, 47(5), 685-711
- Szmigiel-Rawska, Katarzyna and Tavares, António (2019). Rozważni czy romantyczni? Polscy wójtowie, burmistrzowie i prezydenci w mediach społecznościowych. Studia Regionalne i Lokalne, 3(77), 27-38
- Silva, Patrícia, Tavares, António, Silva, Tiago and Lameiras, Mariana (2019). The good, the bad and the ugly: Three faces of social media usage by local governments. Government Information Quarterly, 36(3), 469-479
- Deslatte, Aaron, Tavares, António and Feiock, Richard (2018). Policy of Delay: Evidence from a Bayesian Analysis of Metropolitan Land‐Use Choices. Citizenship Studies, 46(3), 674-699
- Bel, Germà, Raudla, Ringa, Rodrigues, Miguel and Tavares, António (2018). These rules are made for spending: testing and extending the law of 1/n. Public Choice, 174(1-2), 41-60
- Tavares, António and Roeger, Alexandra (2018). Water Safety Plans: A Review of Empirical Research on Adoption and Implementation. Utilities Policy, 53, 15-24
- Tavares, António and Raudla, Ringa (2018). Size, density and small scale elections: A multi-level analysis of voter turnout in sub-municipal governments. Electoral Studies, 56, 1-13
- Tavares, António and Feiock, Richard (2017). Applying an Institutional Collective Action Framework to Investigate Intermunicipal Cooperation in Europe. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 1(4), 299-316
- Tavares, António (2017). Ten years after: revisiting the determinants of the adoption of municipal corporations for local service delivery. Local Government Studies, 43(5), 697-706
- Tavares, António and Cruz, Nuno (2017). Explaining the transparency of local government websites through a political market framework. Government Information Quarterly, 1-13
Book Chapters
- Tavares, António, “Advancing the Research Agenda on Local Territorial Reforms: Taking Time and Space Seriously” in Local Government in Europe: New Perspectives and Democratic Challenges, ed. Marta Lackowska, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska and Filipe Teles (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021), 3-17.
- Tavares, António, Martins, João and Lameiras, Mariana, “Electronic Participation in a Comparative Perspective: Institutional Determinants of Performance” in Digital Government and Achieving E-Public Participation: Emerging Research and Opportunities, ed. Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar and María Elicia Cortés Cediel (Pennsylvania: IGI Global, 2020), 87-123.
- Tavares, António, Martins, João and Lameiras, Mariana, “Electronic Participation in a Comparative Perspective: Institutional Determinants of Performance” in Digital Government and Achieving E-Public Participation: Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hershey: IGI Global, 2020), 87-123.
- Raudla, Ringa and Tavares, António, “Inter-Municipal Cooperation and Austerity Policies: Obstacles or Opportunities?” in Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe: Institutions and Governance, ed. Teles, Filipe and Swianiewicz, Pavel (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 17-41.
Conference Publications
- Silva, Tiago, Tavares, António and Lameiras, Mariana, Trendy Cities: Exploring the Adoption of Different Types of Social Media by Portuguese Municipalities 11th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation (ePart 2019), San Benedetto Del Tronto, 2019/09/02-04.
- Szmigiel-Rawska, Katarzyna, Łukomska, Julita and Tavares, António, Social Media Activity and Local Civic Engagement in Poland 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2018), Galway, 2018/04/04-06.
- Lameiras, Mariana, Silva, Tiago and Tavares, António, An Empirical Analysis of Social Media Usage by Local Governments in Portugal 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2018), Galway, 2018/04/04-06.
- Lopes, Nuno, Soares, Delfina S, Nielsen, Morten M. and Tavares, António, Research Gaps on Public Service Delivery 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2017), New Delhi, 2017/03/07-09.
- Tavares, António, Soares, Delfina S. and Estevez, Elsa, Electronic Governance for Context-Specific Public Service: a Survey of the Literature 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2016), Montevideo, 2016/03/01-03.
Reports
- Backhouse, Judy and Tavares, António (2022). CivicTech: Transparency, Engagement, and Collaboration for Better Governance. The World Bank.
- Lameiras, Mariana, Tavares, António, Silva, Patrícia and Silva, Tiago (2020). The art of being digitally meaningful: local governments' activity on social media. UNU-EGOV Policy Briefs. United Nations University (UNU-EGOV).
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- Electronic Governance for Context-Specific Public Service Delivery
- The Use of Social Media by Local Governments
- Digital Media and Technologies for Civic Engagement
- Media, Information and Literacy (MIL) MOOC for Government Officials and Policy-makers
- World Bank Civic Tech How-to-Note
- e-PACE: E-participation for community empowerment