Role of Public Entities in Suitable Provision of Public Services: Case Study from Slovakia

Viera Papcunová, Roman Vavrek and Marek Dvořák
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Viera Papcunová: Institute of Economics and Management, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, 949 74 Nitra, Slovakia
Roman Vavrek: Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics, VŠB—Technical University of Ostrava, 702 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Marek Dvořák: Department of Trade and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic

Administrative Sciences, 2021, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-18

Abstract: Local governments in the Slovak Republic are important in public administration and form an important part of the public sector, as they provide various public services. Until 1990, all public services were provided only by the state. The reform of public administration began in 1990 with the decentralization of competencies. Several competencies were transferred to local governments from the state, and thus municipalities began to provide public services that the state previously provided. Registry offices were the first to be acquired by local governments from the state. This study aimed to characterize the transfer of competencies and their financing from state administration to local government using the example of registry offices in the Slovak Republic. In the paper, we evaluated the financing of this competency from 2007 to 2018 at the level of individual regions of the Slovak Republic. The results of the analysis and testing of hypotheses indicated that a higher number of inhabitants in individual regions did not affect the number of actions at these offices, despite the fact that the main role of the registry office is to keep registry books, in which events, such as births, weddings, and deaths, are registered.

Keywords: public sector; local government; suitable management; transferred competencies; registry office (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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