Local governments dispose of powerful tools like development funds that can be distributed among its different constituents to compensate economic disequilibrium originated by a complex array of factors. But it is always one of the hardest decisions to assign handouts to people who could think its own expectations are not being taken properly into account. Each stakeholder has different criteria to evaluate his needs, and to demand a particular investment effort. Since resources are very limited in local levels, city hall governments are pulled apart by those conflicting demands. The challenge of addressing them at the same time can be modelled as a multi‐criteria decision‐making. The aim of this paper is to show that the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) could work out the most acceptable distribution of the funds among the different city districts and neighbourhoods. The application of the model in Madrid shows that AHP: (a) allows to incorporate opposing demands; (b) increases the transparency of the decision‐making process; (c) eases the decentralization of governmental decisions; (d) enhances the legitimation of the final outcome; and (e) it is a scientific approach with great potential to be applied in similar domains where hard political decisions are needed.

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层次分析法在实施协同治理过程中的应用：马德里市城市结构资金的分配

地方政府使用了诸如发展基金之类的强大工具，可以将其分配给不同的组成部分，以补偿由一系列复杂因素引起的经济不平衡。但是，向可能认为自己的期望没有得到适当考虑的人们分配讲义始终是最困难的决定之一。每个利益相关者都有不同的标准来评估其需求，并要求进行特定的投资工作。由于当地的资源非常有限，市政厅政府因这些相互矛盾的需求而四分五裂。可以同时解决这些难题，可以将其建模为多标准决策。本文的目的是表明，层次分析法（AHP）可以计算出最可接受的资金在不同市区和街区之间的分配。该模型在马德里的应用表明，层次分析法：（a）允许纳入相反的要求；（b）增加决策过程的透明度；（c）减轻了政府决策的权力下放；（d）增强最终结果的合法性；（e）这是一种科学方法，很有潜力应用于需要做出艰难政治决定的类似领域。（d）增强最终结果的合法性；（e）这是一种具有巨大潜力的科学方法，可用于需要作出艰难政治决定的类似领域。（d）增强最终结果的合法性；（e）这是一种科学方法，很有潜力应用于需要做出艰难政治决定的类似领域。