Enhancing the Efficiency of Local Government in the Context of Reducing the Administrative Expenditures

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN MODERN TIMES: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES Conference, Komotini, Greece, April 24-25, 2009

19 Pages Posted: 29 Apr 2009

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Ani I. Matei

National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (NSPSPA)

Carmen Savulescu

National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (NSPSPA)

Date Written: April 29, 2009

Abstract

The concerns on enhancing the efficiency of public administration, in particular the local government, are moreover present in the concerns of local authorities and specialised literature. Those concerns become more important taking into consideration the conditions of the actual economic crisis. Approached concurrently with public sector performance, enhancing the efficiency may have various resources. Among those resources it is worth to mention "better regulation" concerning public administration and reducing the administrative expenditures. Those two resources are not disjunctive, they are characterised by direct link and determination. Structured on three chapters, the paper focuses on a model aimed to determine the impact of reducing the administrative expenditures on the efficiency of local public services. This model inscribes in the efforts aiming to measure the efficiency in the public sector, efforts visible in the specialised literature.

Keywords: enhancing the efficiency, administrative expenditures, local government

JEL Classification: H59, H72

Suggested Citation

Matei, Ani I. and Savulescu, Carmen, Enhancing the Efficiency of Local Government in the Context of Reducing the Administrative Expenditures (April 29, 2009). PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN MODERN TIMES: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES Conference, Komotini, Greece, April 24-25, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1396688 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1396688

Ani I. Matei (Contact Author)

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Carmen Savulescu

National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (NSPSPA) ( email )

6 Povernei Street
Bucharest, 010643
Romania

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