Cost efficiency of municipalities in service delivery : does ethnic fragmentation matter?

Cost efficiency of municipalities in service delivery does ethnic fragmentation matter?

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Driven by the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA), decentralisation in Macedonia is a policy choice for spurring national cohesion rather than an economic instrument for the more efficient delivery of services. The OFA resulted in a new Macedonian Constitution with policies related to the decentralisati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Nikolov, Marjan, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Maribor, Slovenia : Institute for Local Self-Government and Public Procurement Maribor 2013
2013.
Colección:Intergovernmental fiscal relations.
Materias:
Industrial Management
Management
Business & Economics
Public administration > North Macedonia
North Macedonia > Ethnic relations.
municipality
macedonia
service delivery
cost efficiency
ethnic fragmentation
Albanians
Albanians in North Macedonia
Decentralization
Local government
North Macedonia
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Sumario:Driven by the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA), decentralisation in Macedonia is a policy choice for spurring national cohesion rather than an economic instrument for the more efficient delivery of services. The OFA resulted in a new Macedonian Constitution with policies related to the decentralisation process and equitable representation of communities. This book aims first to estimate the spending efficiency of Macedonian municipalities in service delivery from their own resources and, second, to ascertain the determinants of that efficiency. The ethnic fragmentation of municipalities is taken into account as a possible determinant of efficiency, which represents a novelty in such types of studies. We employ the DEA-VRS, Kernel and SFA estimation techniques to control for the robustness of our estimates. Our findings show that on average Macedonian municipalities exhibit low efficiency in service delivery, although there are significant variations among municipalities. The ethnic fragmentation of municipalities together with the population density, own tax revenues and political affiliation of the mayor with the leading political coalition at the state level explain differences in their efficiencies. More fragmented municipalities tend to be less efficient when providing services to citizens.
Notas:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Descripción Física:1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations, charts; digital, PDF file(s)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789616842167

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