Transparency of Local Public Administration in Poland
Transparency is one of the main dimensions of good governance. It allows to improve public service delivery and decline corruption. The paper is focused on three problems: (1) the weakest aspects of transparency in the local public administration in Poland; (2) factors explaining the differences in transparency across primary public administration agencies; (3) the consequences of identifying transparency mostly with rule enforcement. The source of data is a questionnaire survey of 857 public administration clerks working in 99 commune councils (a commune council is a primary public administration agency) in Poland in 2009. The research is carried out in three steps. Firstly, the distributions of clerks responses are analyzed. Secondly, the regression of transparency is estimated to reveal statistically significant factors that determine the transparency level across public administration agencies. Finally the DEA is applied to construct the efficiency scores for 99 commune councils. These cores are used as a dependent variable in an econometric model to test whether transparency and enforcement of rules are statistically significant factors that can explain the differences in the efficiency across commune councils. Findings point at personnel management as the weakest aspect of internal transparency. The results show meritocracy as a main factor determining transparency when enforcement of rule is not included in a set of determinants. Enforcement of rule, not transparency, occurs to be statistically significant factor influencing the efficiency of local administration; however, this influence is negative.
Maria Piotrowska
Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
国际会议
2011 International Conference on Public Administration(2011公共管理国际会议)
成都
英文
19-28
2011-10-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）