Cost Efficiency of Municipalities in Service Delivery: Does Ethnic Fragmentation Matter?
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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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-296502025-07-21T15:57:34Z Cost Efficiency of Municipalities in Service Delivery: Does Ethnic Fragmentation Matter? Nikolov, Marjan municipality macedonia service delivery cost efficiency ethnic fragmentation Albanians Albanians in North Macedonia Decentralization Local government North Macedonia thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-11-28 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:56:08Z 2013 book 620410 OCN: 945783095 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32006 9789616842167 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29650 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32006/1/620410.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32006/1/620410.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32006/1/620410.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32006/1/620410.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32006/1/620410.pdf Institute for Local Self-Government and Public Procurement Maribor 10.4335/978.961.6842.16.7(2013) 10.4335/978.961.6842.16.7(2013) 695bceb8-a344-4c20-81d1-79c7b06d1de1 9789616842167 178 open access |
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| title | Cost Efficiency of Municipalities in Service Delivery: Does Ethnic Fragmentation Matter? |
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| topic | municipality macedonia service delivery cost efficiency ethnic fragmentation Albanians Albanians in North Macedonia Decentralization Local government North Macedonia thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes |
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