Abstract
The public administration perceived as executive action of the state, i.e., basic statutory subject in the Slovak Republic consists of two parts—state administration and self-government. The basic unit of self-government is the municipality. The basic unit of government is the municipality. The municipality is an economic entity and basic self-governing unit of local self-government, which manages its own property under the Law, disposes with own financial resources, and prepares its own budget. Municipal indebtedness significantly determining its action constitutes a single criterion laid down by law for evaluating its financial performance and necessity to establish a recovery mode or receivership in the municipality. The contribution discusses the selected methods of multi-criteria decision making, which are based on determining of the ranking according to the identified criteria which have a direct impact on the overall result. On the basis of previous utilization of describing methods in the various fields of the economy, the contribution explores the possibility of their use in the evaluation of the management of municipalities, i.e., the application in terms of local self-government. By choosing the right methodology it is possible to evaluate the quality of municipalities management and provide a way for a more efficient use of public funds. This analysis provided the space for comparison of these methods and confirmed their possible use in local self-government in the evaluation of management of municipalities.
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This work was supported by the Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (Project KEGA No. 035PU-4/2016 on the topic: Microeconomics for managers—innovation of structure, content and the method of teaching the subject; Project KEGA No. 032PU-4/2014 on the topic: Preparation of educational materials for the first level of study program Environmental Management and follow-up study program Environmental Management) and by the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Project VEGA No. 1/0139/16 on the topic: Analysis of determinants and factors affecting the efficiency and competitiveness of entities working the soil in the Slovak Republic).
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Vavrek, R., Kotulic, R., Adamisin, P., Sira, E., Vozarova, I.K. (2017). Effectiveness of Use of MCDM Methods in the Terms of Local Self-Government. In: Tsounis, N., Vlachvei, A. (eds) Advances in Applied Economic Research. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48454-9_20
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