Effectiveness of administrative services in Slovakia

The structure of local government in Slovakia is characterized by its fragmentation. With more than 2,900 administrative units and population of 5.4 million belongs Slovakia to the administratively most fragmented countries. This is reflected in low efficiency of provided administrative services and substantial financial reserves. Communes in Slovakia may, because of increased efficiency in the exercise of powers, join into larger municipalities. But how large should these municipalities be and would these mergers bring better administration and public services? Usually, the papers dealing with the effectiveness of public administration often focus on assessing the effectiveness of individual elements such as offices or agencies or of selected public services such as education (schools),police and fire protection. Favourite tool to measure the effectiveness of them is DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis), which in addition to basic effectiveness score provides also additional information. We would like to answer this question. So the aim of this paper is to analyse the effectiveness of Slovak local government system with focus on the size of administrative units and propose changes leading to the increase of effectiveness and improvement Of administrative services and public services delivery.