Decentralization policies in public administration in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and their impact on building offices' scale efficiency
| Autor: | Eleonóra Marišová, Ivana Lichnerová, Tomáš Malatinec, Peter Fandel |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Czech
local self-governments Scale efficiency decentralization building offices metafrontier Public administration Decentralization Unit (housing) Order (exchange) ddc:350 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Data envelopment analysis building sector business.industry 05 social sciences Public sector General Business Management and Accounting language.human_language 0506 political science scale efficiency language data envelopment analysis business Administration (government) 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Administrative Sciences Volume 9 Issue 4 |
| Popis: | Decentralization policy schemes (DPSs) in the public sector have been implemented in different ways by Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Both approaches have led to a transfer of competencies from state administration to self-government with the aim of improving the efficiency of the delivery of services. This paper presents a comparative scale efficiency analysis of the units performing services in the building order sector. The analysis is based on two unique regional datasets from two countries, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The DPS implemented in Slovakia is based on the principle of voluntary cooperation of municipalities. In the case of the Czech building sector, the competencies have been transferred to the newly created municipalities with delegated or extended competencies. This study aims to contribute to the research on efficiency in public administration. We focused on the relationship between two types of DPSs, and units&rsquo scale efficiency. We also tried to determine whether a specific unit scale size could be identified as the most efficient. We employed a two-stage metafrontier approach based on procedures for evaluating program and managerial efficiency. The results show that different DPs have not led to statistically significant differences in performance, and it is not possible to identify the most efficient building office scale size. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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