Voluntary Cooperation of Citizens in the Community Model of Public Service Delivery
Voluntary Cooperation of Citizens in the Community Model of Public Service Delivery

Author(s): Beáta Mikušová Meričková, Nikoleta Jakuš Muthová, Marián Holúbek
Subject(s): Politics, Governance, Politics and society
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Cooperation; public service delivery; preferences; willingness to pay;
Summary/Abstract: Most of the developed countries have implemented new principles of public sector reform – new approaches to the management of the public sector. A major feature of the new public management (NPM) is the introduction of market type mechanisms (MTM) to the running of public service organizations: the marketization of the public service. The marketization of public services aims at a continuous increase in public expenditure efficiency, continual improvements in public services quality, the implementation of the professional management tools in the public sector, and last but not least, charge for public services. Price of public services in mainstream economics theory is connected with preference revelation problem. Economic models explain the relationship between consumer behavior (revealed preferences) and the value of public goods, and thus determine the value of the goods themselves. The aim of the paper is to determine the success of the community model of public service delivery based on the demonstrated preferences of individuals in the consumption of public services/public goods. The direct way of determining the preferences of individuals was used in this paper (willigness to pay and willigness to accept). These preferences will be identified based on the crowdfunding campaign as an example of community model of public goods provision by using survey experiment method. The willingness of individuals to pay is dependent on the individual's relationship with the organisation, the organisation's employees, or sympathise with those for whom the collection is, for whom the project is designed.

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