Vliv sociálního kapitálu na rozvojový potenciál venkovských obcí
Effective Governance with Index of Municipality Development Potential

Summary/Abstract: There are more than five thousands of small municipalities in the Czech Republic with less than 3000 inhabitants. It is very difficult to strategically govern so vast amount of individual independent entities. Leaders, situation and stage of development vary municipality to municipality, and it is not easy to find some general pattern applicable to all of them. Some of these municipalities are growing, some of them not. Why? What causes such differences? There are several researches based on the regional typology trying answer these questions. But we can find two similar municipalities situated close to each other (same regional typology) but one is growing, and the second one is declining. This article introduces ambitious approach trying to explain these differences. Particular attention is paid to social capital as crucial phenomenon influencing municipalities’ development potential. Case studies are used as a research design. One hundred individual characteristics are examined in 18 selected villages from three different counties in Czech Republic. One-half of these are growing ones, the second half are declining. There were found ten indicators compounded in the index of municipality development potential. Open composition of this index allows diversification of public policies according to particular needs of individual municipalities.

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