Costs and Revenues Balance: The Case of Municipal Delegated Competences in Slovakia
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25410%2F23%3A39920821" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25410/23:39920821 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://sciendo.com/es/article/10.2478/cejpp-2023-0008" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/es/article/10.2478/cejpp-2023-0008</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/cejpp-2023-0008" target="_blank" >10.2478/cejpp-2023-0008</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Costs and Revenues Balance: The Case of Municipal Delegated Competences in Slovakia
Original language description
Local authorities' financial resources should be commensurate with the competences provided for by the law. However, in most countries, representatives of local self-governments claim that their total revenues are insufficient to deliver allocated tasks at a standard scale and level of quality. Such statements are somewhat problematic, especially in less-developed countries, where cost-center accounting is not used and service standards are not defined. This paper analyzes the relationship between the costs of delegated competences and the resources provided to cover these costs in Slovakia. We found that Slovak municipalities (with some exceptions) do not know the exact costs of delegated competences, and that the state does not cover the total costs of delegated competences, which contradicts the Slovak constitution. Our short comparison in the discussion shows that the Czech situation is very similar, suggesting that the problem might be common for all post-Soviet countries.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Central European Journal of Public Policy
ISSN
1802-4866
e-ISSN
1802-4866
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
51-62
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85174410677