Village Committees' Opinions on Good Governance – based Administration by Muangna Municipality Donjan District, Kalasin Province

Abstract

                   This thematic paper serves the purposes. 1) to study village committees' opinions on good governance-based administration by Muangna Municipality Donjan District, Kalasin Province, 2) to compare their opinions on good governance-based administration to variables of their genders, ages educational levels and occupations, and 3) to collect suggestions with development guidelines for their good governance-based administration. The samples for conducting the research counts in 108 village committees, setting it against Taro Yamane’s formula. The research instrument is five rating scale questionnaire with the reliability of the whole entry amounting to .90. The statistics exploited for data analyses encompass frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and F-test (One-way ANOVA)

                  Outcomes of research findings: 1) Village committees' opinions on good governance-based administration has rated ‘high’ in the overall aspect. Given a single one, all six aspects have also scored the same. These aspects placed in descending order of means take in: rule of law, accountability, participation, value of money, ethics, and transparency respectively. The comparative results found that no significant differences in the former’s genders, ages educational levels and occupations were correlated with their opinions on good governance-based administration here. 3) Suggestions with development guidelines for their good governance-based administration in descending order of frequencies are that Municipality should: 1) allow the people to participate in defining policy of the annual budget, 2) allow the people to comment on proposed ordinance, and3) work on projects that let people know strictly.