Primož Pevcin

University of Ljubljana · Faculty of Administration

The available literature as ti evidence-based decision-making in smart cities, challenges as to attaining decision making capacities at operational, managerial and strategic levels.

The paper is based on the use of evidence to scrutinise the effect of the Public-Private Partnership Act on the local public utility providers, where the context of the water and wastewater sector in Slovenia serves as an example. The Act affected the legal status of public enterprises, where solely public ownership was prescribed, and therefore de...

The paper investigates the experiences with the re-municipalization trend in Slovenia, which was identified after the adoption of the Public-Private Partnership Act (PPPA) in 2006. Under the new legislation, the reorganization process of public enterprises in Slovenia accured, which led to the changes in their ownership structure. The aim of our re...

Evidence-based decision making is promoted as offering efficiency and effectiveness; however, its uptake has faced barriers such as underdeveloped supporting culture, limited access to evidence, and evidence that is not fully relevant. Smart city conceptualizations offer economic and environmental sustainability and better quality of life through e...

This paper fits into the ex-post migration crisis of 2015-16 dialogue and offers added value through its complex transboundary perspective while bringing in the national perspective of a transboundary crisis. After the largest migration flow, lacking supranational coordination and governance, Slovenia’s coping strategy was oriented towards logistic...

The Great Lockdown has caused severe economic distractions to the majority of world countries, and de-globalization trends have started to increase. Globalization was to an extent beneficial for smaller economies, and it was one of the factors contributing to the rise in the number of countries around the world during the last few decades. Accordin...

The migration crisis was and, in some aspects, still is one of the biggest challenges that the European Union (EU) has faced recently. In the crisis peak in 2015/16, most of its member states were affected in different ways. This paper contributes to the ex-post dialog of this transboundary crisis and attempts to present the level of readiness to s...

This chapter contributes to the ex-post dialogue on the migration crisis of 2015–2016, providing an examination and elaboration of the coping strategies of Slovene government. With the case study research method, paper findings are advocating that policymaking and decision-making focused mainly on the border management and other needed logistics. S...

At the height of the migration crisis, around 2.4 million asylum claims were submitted in the European Union Member States. The enormous weight of a massive inflow of migrants and immigration‐related threat perceptions prompted Member States to start reintroducing border controls at EU internal borders, which resulted in a ‘temporary suspension’ of...

The paper presents a literature review about local public services delivery mechanisms like: in-house provisions, privatization, and inter-municipal cooperation. The aim of this paper is to review the development of the studied field, to find out which delivery mechanism dominates in a certain period of time, and to review which economic research f...

This empirical paper focuses on the analysis of economic benefits of European integration processes. A gap exists on the research that addresses the specific benefits of states involved in the economic integration processes. Thus, paper focuses on the analysis of benefits Slovenia has from European economic integration, and benchmark analysis is pe...

The paper analyses the effect of Public Private Partnership Act on the ownership structure of local public utilities’ providers in Slovenia. The Act affected the legal status of public enterprises, where solely public ownership was prescribed, and therefore demanded the reorganization of existing public enterprises. The paper aims to evaluate the r...

Purpose: Small state studies has emerged as a discipline, and this discipline has been initially dominated mainly by the issues of vulnerability and a lack of capacities of small states, although these issues have been gradually replaced by the discussions on the potential opportunities of small states, not just their challenges. Within this framew...

This paper presents findings on the developments of PA education in 11 CEE countries and discusses various patterns based on the data on the historical background of PA education, forming thus the initial outcome of a more complex research carried out within the PAQUALITY project. The analysis is based around two main contextual factors: the role o...

This paper presents the results of the content analysis of 139 Web of Science papers focused on collaborative innovation with external stakeholders of public administration, specifically on co-production and co-creation. The analysis included papers published between 2009 and 2018 and was based on a coding scheme consisting of 12 parameters grouped...

Research purpose. Various city labels have become increasingly popular both in literature as well as in urban policy-making. It has become relatively common that cities make a proclamation that they either are or would at least like to become, smart, sustainable, digital, creative, intelligent among other things. These proclamations have become pop...

Slovenia has only one tier of sub-national government, that is, municipalities. Currently, there are 212 municipalities, and they exhibit the same responsibilities they need to provide to their residents, regardless of their size, and these differences in size are even in the range 1:100. The new national strategy for the development of local self-...

Paper presents the value added to the analysis of the functioning of multi-level governance in the context of EU. Furthermore, it contributes to the small state studies, as the mitigation of crisis from the perspective of small state is analysed. The aim of the research was to determine whether the multi-level governance during the large-scale cris...

Paper presents the value added to the analysis of the functioning of multi-level governance in the context of EU. Furthermore, it contributes to the small state studies, as the mitigation of crisis from the perspective of small state is analysed.The aim of the research was to determine whether the multi-level governance during the large-scale crisi...

Present work presents an overview and evaluation of twenty years of development of slovenian local self-government under European Charter of Local Self-Government (ECLSG). Value added of the work lies in its multidisciplinarity, since development is elaborated in its legal, political and economic perspective. Initially, the broader European context...

The paper presents the legal status of existing public enterprises in Slovenia before and after the adoption of Public-Private Partnership Act, that demanded the reorganization of existing public enterprises in the period 2007-2009. The paper also presents the analysis of local public utilities delivery mechanisms in Slovenia, focusing on the local...

This chapter deals with the evaluation of delivery mechanisms in water supply industry in Slovenia. The focus is on the institutional and outcome evaluation, i.e. an explanation of the phenomenon in local governments where water is mostly supplied by public entities, either by public enterprises or in-house integrated service providers. Although th...

Prispevek predstavlja ključne ugotovitve institucionalne evalvacije področja izvajanja javne službe oskrbe s pitno vodo v Sloveniji. Prispevek izhaja iz predpostavke, da je regulatorni okvir v veliki meri onemogočil funkcionalno privatizacijo. Tako bo v prispevku prikazan pravni in regulatorni okvir delovanja in izvajanja te javne služba, čemur sle...

Between 1989 and 1991, a giant region of the world underwent revolutionary change. To this day, it is widely referred to as Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This book represents an overview and a reflection of changes in countries that implemented the most profound public administration reforms (PAR) – countries that joined the European Union (EU)...

p>The purpose of this paper is to empirically verify if the possible existence of scale economies actually supports the argument that municipal consolidation is needed in Slovenia. The major reform of local self-government in Slovenia was implemented in 1994, when the transformation of existing 58 »communal« municipalities was envisaged. From 1995...

The paper addresses the legal, organisational, economic, and financial aspects of local public services development in Slovenia in the last two decades. Since both economic and social local public services are taken into account, the research question focuses on main variations in the development and current status of those two categories. The evid...

This paper empirically analyses average costs function and technical efficiency for 200 Slovenian municipalities in the year 2011. The methodology is based on the econometric estimation of the average costs function and stochastic parametric analysis of best-practice frontier to address technical inefficiencies. The results reveal that the average...

Purpose – By utilizing the two most commonly used approaches to generate “best practice frontier” to estimate efficiency of observed units, the purpose of this research paper is to estimate technical efficiency for total population of 200 Slovenian municipalities for the 2011 fiscal year. Design/methodology/approach – Stochastic frontier analysis...

Eden od osnovnih pogojev za varnost cestnega prometa je tehnična brezhibnost vozil. Glede na to, da nadzor izpolnjevanja tega pogoja zahteva specifična strokovna znanja in tehnično opremo, hkrati pa se država srečuje s fiskalnimi omejitvami, je razumljivo, da je država za izvajanje te naloge pooblastila ustrezno usposobljene subjekte zasebnega sekt...

This paper describes cutback-management practices in the Slovenian public sector in the period 2008-2013 and focuses both on an analysis of measures being implemented and on governance issues when managing austerity. Austerity measures in the public sector were introduced almost immediately after the crisis emerged. The first incumbent government (...

Development of creative and cultural sector, which is based on internal resources of the territory, can ensure competitive advantage; and several factors of competitive advantage based on resources can be defined. Those factors are human capital, tangible and intangible potential as well as financial resources. The purpose of this paper is to elabo...

This paper empirically investigates various factors affecting variations in the size of the non-profit sector by using cross-country data in the sample of selected countries. Namely, the available data on sector employment (workforce) indicate substantial variations in the size of the sector among countries, although certain problems exist with the...

Recent decades have seen a substantial increase in the socio--economic importance of the civil society sector. Nowadays the sector tends to be seen as one of the pre-requisites of socio--economic development of a society. Nevertheless, comparisons of existing international data reveal substantial variations in the development and socio-economic imp...

This study has examined the expenditure and tax effort effect of municipal transfer revenues in Slovenia. Namely, transfer revenues received by local governments should stimulate provision of local goods and services, and consequently increase local spending. It is also predicted that this increase should be larger than one related to the equivalen...

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates variations in the size of the non-profit sector among countries. Although the non-profit sector has experienced growth in relative socio-economic importance in recent decades, the available data on the size of the sector indicates substantial variations among countries. Existing literature provi...

In the case of traffic licence in Slovenia, it has been pointed out that contracting out of public administration tasks in the field of traffic licence issuing has caused that the majority of costumers receive their traffic licence and perform other tasks attached to traffic licence obligations at private sector entities, the major reasons being si...

International comparisons show that large cross-country differences exist in the overall macro extent of regulation of the economy. In this context, the main purpose of the article is to investigate, why such differences exist by identifying and empirically verifying the effect of various factors that could potentially shape those differences. Empi...

The purpose of the analysis presented in the article is to identify various economic, social, political, demographic and cultural factors that could shape the differences in the size of government sector across countries and, with the use of econometric analysis empirically verify the effect of those factors. The analysis focuses only on ”budgetary...

Growth theory is an important part of modern macroeconomics. The analysis of growth has long been based on the Solow (1956) "growth accounting" approach, also termed as neo- classical growth theory, which has two important predictions about growth in the long run. These predictions are that economic growth occurs as a result of exogenous technologi...

Governments usually use regulations in order to better align both public and private interests in markets. Interestingly, international comparisons show that large cross-country differences exist in the overall macro extent of regulation of the economy. In this context, the main purpose of the paper is to investigate why such differences exist by i...

The paper discusses socioeconomic effects of political decentralization, meaning that advantages and disadvantages of political decentralization and its effect on the size public (transfer) spending are examined. The advantages of decentralization are usually described in the literature as greater allocative efficiencies of decentralized government...