An Analysis of Expenses for the Outsourcing of Policy Advice on the Level of the Ministries of the Czech Republic

Arnošt Veselý, František Ochrana and Stanislav Klazar

Prague Economic Papers, 2015, vol. 2015, issue 5, 581-601

Abstract: The study is a contribution to the theoretical/empirical analysis of the problem of outsourcing of policy advice in the public administration. It provides the typologies of expenses for policy advice in the public administration and examines the relationship between internal and external expenses on an example of the ministries of the Czech Republic for the period from 2001 to 2011. It shows that extreme changes in the form of increases in expenses for outsourcing arise when an amendment to the Act on Public Contracts is prepared. We explain the problem on the basis of changes in the behaviour of the clients as a result of expected changes to the contracting conditions. The study shows that several factors influence the amount of expenses for the outsourcing of policy advice. The ""large"" ministries have relatively fewer expenses for the outsourcing of policy advice than ""small"" ministries. Ministries that have their own workplaces available in their structures (i.e. in the form of their own scientific research workplaces) have lower than average expenses for the outsourcing of policy advice. Ministries with higher average wages are ministries with a relatively large number of managers in relation to the number of analysts, and thus they implement a higher degree of external services (measured as a share of the wage expenses).

Keywords: policy advice; outsourcing; internal expenses for policy advice; external expenses for policy advice; expenses for policy advice on the level of the ministries in the Czech Republic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 H57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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