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waste collection market, which shows a high degree of concentration. Based on data …

The goal of this paper is to document and to analyse public administration reform dynamics
and outcomes in three selected areas–transparency and accountability, civil service and …

The paper analyzes the impact of inter-municipal cooperation on territorial fragmentation on
the basis of a European comparison of the cases of Slovakia, Slovenia, and the German …

The analysis presented here follows the theme of intermunicipal cooperation and constitutes
a systematic test of impact of intermunicipal cooperation in the Czech Republic. Our …

Local governments are responsible for the delivery of a large variety of very different public
services. The article is focused on two issues: 1) we try to discover whether the local …

This chapter examines social innovations in the public sector emphasizing the plural forms
of ownership in public service provision which enable co-creation. It identifies different types …

Public administration reforms are among the most typical expressions of societal progress
from the point of view of governments and the public sector and more often than not have …

The focus of this chapter is the local (self-) government level in Slovakia, which is a highly
decentralized country with a very fragmented municipal structure. Two aspects of ICTs are …

This chapter explores the impact of fiscal rules on the indebtedness of municipalities in the
Czech Republic and Slovakia from a comparative perspective. Our analysis focuses on the …

Abstract 1 Matej Bel University, Faculty of Economics, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. 2 Masaryk
University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Brno, Czech Republic. 3 AMBIS …