Quality of Regional Election Implementation as Determinant of Performance of Simultaneous Regional Election: Community Trust and Satisfaction as Mediation, and Regulatory Harmonization as Moderation

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to analyze how to build the political and managerial balance of government in direct and simultaneous regional elections in Indonesia based on the managerial approach of government and the decentralization approach quantitatively. Data analysis uses the Social Network Analysis (SNA) or Social Network Theory (SNT) approach to map policies using the XL Node and first-order confirmatory factor analysis which is a form of measurement model in the Structural Equation Model (SEM). The population in this study is the Regency/City and Province Organizers of the 2018 elections, which are 88 pairs of Regional Heads/Deputy Regional Heads. The sample of this study was voters who assessed the quality of the elections and other variables, totaling 340 respondents. The results of the study indicate that community trust and community satisfaction can be mediation for the quality of the implementation of regional election to influence the performance of simultaneous regional election. In addition, harmonization of regulations is a moderating variable that can affect the quality of the implementation of regional elections, public trust, and public satisfaction with the performance of simultaneous regional elections. This study conducted a quantification study related to new approaches in building a balance with the managerial approach of governance (Rosenbloom, DH (2015). Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector, 8th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill; Frederickson, HG (1980). New Public Administration. University of Alabama Press; Frederickson, GN and NA Lynch (1984). The impact of synchronous communication on the problem of electing a leader in a ring. In Proc. 16th Annual ACM Symp. Theory of Computing, Washington, D.C., pp. 493–503. https://doi.org/10.1145/800057.808719 ) and the decentralization approach (Smith, BC (1985). Decentralization: The Territorial Dimension of the State. Taylor & Francis; Smith, BC (2012). Desentralisasi, Dimensi Teritorial Suatu Negara (diterjemahkan oleh Tim MIPI). Jakarta: MIPI).