Nikoleta Jakuš Muthová

• Matej Bel University

A view of the problem of contracting out public services, limited to solving the “make or buy” question, does not fully address the issue: why doesn’t contracting out public services lead to efficiency gains? The controversial effects of contracting out on efficiency can be better understood by shifting the research issue from the cost-effectivenes...

Crowdfunding is currently one of the funding options for charitable non‐profit projects created by non‐governmental organizations (NGOs). This paper aims to analyse the charity projects created by NGOs and individuals on crowdfunding platforms and then compare them with commercial crowdfunding, emphasizing the success factors of charity campaigns....

Contracting out services in the public sector should convey efficiency gains compared to the in-house delivery of these services because of the competition element. However, results from practice do not confirm this assumption. Generalising the reasons for this situation is still problematic, but there is no doubt that the quality of managing the p...

This article investigates barriers to inter-municipal cooperation in Slovakia, a country that is essentially formed of small municipalities. In a fragmented municipal structure, inter-municipal cooperation could be the way to achieve lower costs for service provision while maintaining or even increasing a quality service, taking into account econom...

Acknowledgement This monograph was supported by the with the support of the project VEGA 1/0029/21 Management of contracting services in the public sector.

Many municipalities are facing the problem of non-payers of local taxes or fees. Despite the fact that reminders are sent to taxpayers, informing that in case of non-payment they will be referred for execution, there are still those who do not pay. Several studies have shown that behavioural interventions can be a tool to reduce the proportion of n...

The problem of optimising financial relations in the budgetary system with respect to its vertical and horizontal structure often manifests itself in the form of vertical and horizontal fiscal imbalances, when the revenues of public administration units at its different levels or at the same level do not correspond to the expenditures related to th...

Financial management as a scholalry field has been rapidly chaning in the last few decaades. This paradigm shoft has been fueled by the non-precendented development of ICT technology, globalization, man-made and natural disasters and consequent crises. The aim of this book is to collect evidence on the development of financial management, both in t...

Kniha, ktorú držíte v ruke, má ambíciu prispieť k tomu, aby čoraz viac organizácií vo verejnom sektore na Slovensku pracovalo s poznatkami behaviorálnych vied. Vznikla ako výstup aktivít uskutočnených v rámci projektu podporeného Agentúrou pre vedu a výskum (APVV) s názvom Behaviorálne intervencie v miestnej samospráve: zvyšovanie účinnosti miestny...

This paper on the case of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic examines the effect of information nudging on changing the behavior of medicine users with unused medicines. We introduce a new concept of nudge into the theory as an explanatory tool used in the form of subsumption. In our explanatory model, explanans represents the initial condi...

The factors of corrupt behaviour resulting from the political environment have the strongest impact on corruption. The enforceability of political accountability and the transparency of the political system can be considered as the political factors of corruption. The aim of the study is to quantitatively confirm the impact of the degree of politic...

Behavioural interventions, or nudges, can be seen in public policy as a tool to help local governments in a variety of areas. The main advantages of nudges include the low costs associated with their implementation and, on the other hand, the relatively high effect if the factors acting on individuals are correctly identified (e.g., the salience fa...

Data-intensive technologies, such as artificial intelligence, imply huge opportunities for transforming the delivery of healthcare and social services, improving people’s quality of life and working in the health and welfare system. The aim of this paper is to present examples of the implementation of artificial intelligence techniques in healthcar...

In the past decade, the issue of stakeholder participation has been researched in the context of sustainable development. Indeed, new approaches to sustainable development point out the role of relationship-building with stakeholders and search for suitable tools how to involve stakeholders in the local strategic development. This paper deals with...

The public sector faces the challenge of re-evaluating public service delivery mechanisms with a citizen orientation. The eGovernment concept should not only focus on delivering a large number of services to increase efficiency and effectiveness when deciding on a top-down approach, based on government needs, but decisions should be made on the bas...

The growing interest in the performance of public services by citizens and public authorities force public service organizations to seek justification in the use of public resources. The public also require reassurance that public services provide value for money. This reflects the need for a comprehensive measurement and assessment of performance...

Implementation of alternative service delivery arrangements contributed to a rethinking of the public sector’s capacity as the public service provider. The public-private partnerships became part of the life of modern economics as the tool which enables the state or local government to carry their competences in a time that is ambitious to increase...

The degree of enforcement of political accountability at all levels of government affects the level of corruption. Active civil society shaping public opinion puts pressure on politicians to act responsibly and thus reduces the risk of corrupt practices. Increasing political responsibility at the municipal level is possible through the operation of...

Most of the developed countries have implemented new principles of public sector reform – new approaches to the management of the public sector. A major feature of the new public management (NPM) is the introduction of market type mechanisms (MTM) to the running of public service organizations: the marketization of the public service. The marketiza...

In order to gain a better understanding of human behaviour, Economics seeks to work with other disciplines such as Psychology, Sociology, or Anthropology (Behavioural Economics). Unlike neoclassical economic theory, behavioural economics does not assume a rational individual. On the contrary, it focuses on an irrational (bounded rational) individua...

The objective of this paper is to exanimate the preferences of consumer goods of collective consumption or willingness to pay for consumption of the goods which brings them benefits and from consumption of which they cannot be excluded ("public goods") and to test the validity of free rider theory. Theoretical framework is based on a critical analy...

Reforms of government and public administrations in the spirit of New Public Management combined with use of information and communications technologies have brought many innovations in public service delivery. The goal of this study is to identify possible benefits and constraints of information-communication technologies implementing into the pub...

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The development of information and communication technologies (ICT) enables, inter alia, to address the problem of ineffective provision of public goods (free-rider problem) and emerging externalities. This degree of inefficiency can be reduced by introducing alternative ways of securing public goods on a voluntary basis such as crowdsourcing. Crow...

The conference participants have focused on the latest achievements in regional science, looking for engines of urban and regional development orchestrating spatial development. The themes of the CERS conference 2017 have been proposed according to the newest trends in urban and regional development, by respecting differences and uniqueness of citi...

The reallocation of resources in the economy in favor of the provision of public goods carries a certain degree of ineffi ciency (Downson’s model of the political cycle, the problem of cyclical choice, log-rolling, rational ignorance and others). This ineffi ciency can be reduced by introducing alternative ways of providing public goods. The aim of...

Reforms of government and public administrations in the spirit of New Public Management combined with the use of information and communication technologies have brought about many innovations in public service delivery. The goal of this study is to evaluate the demand on innovative public services with implemented information-communication technolo...