UKAZATEL AUTARKIE JAKO NÁSTROJ BENCHMARKINGU VEŘEJNÉHO SEKTORU (NA PŘÍKLADU KOOPERACE OBCÍ JIHOČESKÉHO KRAJE)
AUTARKY INDICATOR AS A BENCHMARKING TOOL FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR (ON THE EXAMPLE INTER-MUNICIPAL COOPERATION IN THE SOUTH BOHEMIAN REGION)

Author(s): Jiří Dušek
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Public Administration, Economic development, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: autarky; cooperation of municipalities; financial self-sufficiency; regional development; South Bohemian Region;
Summary/Abstract: Size structure of municipalities in the Czech Republic is characterised by a large number of small municipalities up to 2000 inhabitants. There is a lot of small municipalities with 500 inhabitants and less, especially in western and southern Bohemia and western Moravia. This dispersion brings certain problems related to the quality of public administration, its financing and leads to the differentiation of socio-economic development of individual municipalities. The main objective of the paper is to analyse the uneven socio-economic development of the municipalities in the South Bohemian Region, as an example of the development of cooperation between the municipalities of the South Bohemian Region in relation to the financial self-sufficiency of municipalities (autarky). The hypothesis is that the municipality with a higher autarky indicator tends to become less involved in municipal cooperation, which means that the autarky indicator is bigger, the level of municipality cooperation is smaller. The theoretical part consists of research findings related to the problems of regional development and cooperation of municipalities; also the autarky is defined (the degree of financial self-sufficiency of municipalities). Furthermore, various methods are introduced, which are applied in the context of the analysis, because financially self-sufficient municipalities have a lower level of municipality cooperation. The research of autarky and municipality cooperation was carried out by author in 2007-2015, the findings were tested subsequently by correlation and regression analysis and completed with descriptive statistics. The results of the research confirmed the assumption of uneven development of the territory, because financially self-sufficient municipalities have a lower level of municipal cooperation.

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