Abstract
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’ 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.
Highlights
After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, in 1993, public administration reforms in the successor states of Slovakia and the Czech Republic led to two different decentralization policy schemes.Public administration reforms and decentralization in the Slovak Republic (SR) and theCzech Republic (CR) have been necessary because of changes in the societal system due to the “velvet revolution” in 1989, and the prospective of both states being member of the EU (2004).In both countries (SR and CR), there has been a gradual transfer of competencies from the state to self-government, since the self-government was established as a new part of public administration, during the decentralization process
This study examined the efficiency of local self-governments in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, after the implementation of the two different policy schemes within the decentralization of the public administration in both states
The results allow for a comparison of two different approaches, both implemented in order to reach more efficient administrative units
Summary
After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, in 1993, public administration reforms in the successor states of Slovakia and the Czech Republic led to two different decentralization policy schemes.Public administration reforms and decentralization in the Slovak Republic (SR) and theCzech Republic (CR) have been necessary because of changes in the societal system due to the “velvet revolution” in 1989, and the prospective of both states being member of the EU (2004).In both countries (SR and CR), there has been a gradual transfer of competencies from the state to self-government, since the self-government was established as a new part of public administration, during the decentralization process. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, in 1993, public administration reforms in the successor states of Slovakia and the Czech Republic led to two different decentralization policy schemes. Public administration reforms and decentralization in the Slovak Republic (SR) and the. Czech Republic (CR) have been necessary because of changes in the societal system due to the “velvet revolution” in 1989, and the prospective of both states being member of the EU (2004). In both countries (SR and CR), there has been a gradual transfer of competencies from the state to self-government, since the self-government was established as a new part of public administration, during the decentralization process.
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