The design of potential indicators linking the regional authorities efficiency and the quality of life in the regions

Abstract

The need to evaluate the public administration, its effectiveness and its performance is still present. Efforts to increase the quality of public administration, to improve its efficiency and looking for new ways to do this is emphasized in the conditions of economic crisis and the lack of public funds. The quality of public administration and its improvement should find an echo in the quality of life of the population, which is evaluated by both economic and non-economic indicators. This paper tries to identify potential suitable indicators monitoring the interconnection of public administration performance indicators and the relevant areas, which are based on the description of existing opinions about the effectiveness and its detection using various methods and indicators, methods of synthesis, abstraction and deduction. The issue is specified in the terms of the Regional Authority and the higher territorial self-government unit in the Czech Republic (region). The paper shows the great difficulty of the design of indicators linking the regional authority efficiency and the quality of life in the regions. This difficulty is due to the high number of factors affecting this relationship (flow versus state variables, external influences out of the region, priorities variance, self-government versus state administration, respectively independent versus delegated powers, different input conditions, etc.).