Original scientific paper

Local Government in Slovenia: Structure, Size, and Expenditures

Primož Pevcin ; Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the relationship between local government size and costs (expenditures) in Slovenia. There is only one tier of local government in Slovenia. Municipalities differ substantially in their size, spending activities and in other socio-economic characteristics. Consequently, this gives opportunity to assess the relation and the effect of size on per capita expenditures
of municipalities, which could be either linear (positive, negative) or
non-linear (U-shaped, inverted U-shaped). The empirical evidence suggests that linear negative effect of municipal size on per capita expenditures of Slovenian municipalities could be observed, which means that findings speak in favour of policy implications that foster municipal amalgamation.

Keywords

local authority; local government finances; municipal expenditures; optimal municipal size; Slovenia

Hrčak ID:

130599

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/130599

Publication date:

1.9.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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