The main purpose of the paper is to apply a non-parametric methodology for measuring public police performance in Slovenia. The paper considers how previous studies have modelled the role of policing in their specifications of inputs and output. In particular, the multiple-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is presented and then applied to measure the relative efficiency of police-work-related data for eleven police directorates (PDs) in 2010 and also compared with the efficiency scores in 2005. The data obtained from the police databases is analyzed through the Frontier Analyst 4.0 and SPSS 19.0 statistical package software. The results show that the technical efficiency varies significantly across the police directorates and across the selected years, even when we allow for environmental factors and control for these non-discretionary inputs. Most police directorates in Slovenia could attain a higher output if they were fully efficient. Indeed, all of the in efficient police directorates can learn how to ensure a "good" performance from the efficient ones (i.e. the Maribor PD and the Novo mesto PD) by observing how they are processing their inputs and outputs. Finally, the empirical results of the paper are important indicators of the relative efficiency (or inefficiency) of police directorates that can serve as a guide to the General Police Directorate when further investigating how to enhance the performance efficiency of the various units.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3932590
The reduction of administrative burdens is a measure to improve regulatory quality. Most measures are directed towards reducing barriers for business while the issue of regulation inside government is not often posed. The research carried out in 2010 was intended to investigate how Slovenian municipalities and others in the public sector perceive measures to reduce administrative burdens and the areas in which they consider regulations to present the greatest burden. Results have shown that public procurement regulations are the greatest burden for municipalities and the public sector as a whole. Further research indicates which public procurement procedures municipalities used most often and what benefits they perceive in the amended legislation. Results indicate that most municipalities use open procedures most often, which procedurally is the most complex.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4062894
Work on administrative reform at the cross-section of post-socialism, legalism and good administration is an independent chapter in the scientific monograph on past and recent research and future trends in public administration, published by NISPAcee. Contribution is, within legal-administrative science, dedicated to a critical evaluation of goals, activities and reforms’ results in Slovenia and comparatively in EU. The reforms have been mostly designed under the influence of New Public Management, aiming mainly at rationalization of structures and resources, user-orientation, development of e-government, and quality management. However, they have been carried out rather legalistically although formally run under several overall reform strategies, stimulated by twofold driving forces: the inner forces and the EU or OECD incentives. The goals and activities have been partly complementary and partly in contradiction with each other due to lack of evaluation and consensus in terms of implementation, but subject to continuous modernization and Europeanization. As for the future, the administration is not to be regarded merely as a technical tool to execute governmental policies, and particularly neo-liberalistic attempts to downsizing and delegation are not sufficient in a societal context. Thus, public administration, in Slovenia and CEE area as a whole, should be developed as a factor of democracy and a pillar of good governance in the society.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4114606
We developed a new methodology for evaluating e-government back office. The methodology is based on an innovative combination of method for synthesis of data from normative acts and interviews with decision makers in pubic administration into networks of information flows between public administration bodies. The networks reflect the flow of information and documents induced by the processes of providing public services to citizens and businesses. The established networks are being analyzed with methods for social network analysis. Empirical research in four public administration domains shows that the structural properties of the information-flow networks clearly indicate the development of the back-office e-government systems. The developed methodology is applicable in scenarios of ex-ante as well as ex-post analysis of e-government public policies.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4264110
The main purpose of the paper is therefore the following: (1) to examine the interdependence of e-government development and organisational transformation in public sectororganisations and propose a clearer explanation of ICT's role as a driving force of organisational transformation in further e-government development; and (2) to specify the main characteristics of organisational transformation in the e-government era through the development of a new framework. This framework describes organisational transformation in two dimensions, i.e. the 'depth' and the 'nature' of changes, and specifies the key attributes related to the three typical organisational levels.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4289966