University of Pardubice Faculty of Economics and Administration PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 2020 THREE DECADES OF CHALLENGES, REFORMS, AND UNCERTAIN RESULTS th Proceedings of the 13 International Scientific Conference 19th November 2020 Východočeská sekce ČESKÉ SPOLEČNOSTI PRO SYSTÉMOVOU INTEGRACI Proceedings of the 13th International Scientific Conference PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 2020: Three Decades of Challenges, Reforms, and Uncertain Results Pardubice, 19th November 2020 University of Pardubice Faculty of Economics and Administration Pardubice, 2020 This publication has not been linguistically corrected. The authors are responsible for content, professional level and linguistic accuracy of papers. All papers passed a doule-blind review process. ISBN 978-80-7560-338-8 (pdf) Scientific Committee Assoc. prof. Luca Brusati Bocconi University School of Management, Milan, Italy Prof. Jan Čapek Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic Assoc. prof. Kateřina Frumarová Faculty of Law, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic Prof. Oto Hudec Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia Prof. Arto Haveri Faculty of Management and Business, University of Tampere, Finland Dr. Diana Camelia Iancu Faculty of Public Administration National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania Dr. Jana Janderová Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic Assoc. prof. Vita Juknevičiene Institute of Regional Development, Šiauliai University, Lithuania Dr. Veronica Junjan Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands Dr. Petr Jüptner Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech Republic Dr. Pawel T. Kazibudzki Faculty of Economics and Management, Opole University of Technology, Poland Assoc. prof. Daniel Klimovský Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia Prof. Ilona Palné Kovács Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Prof. Vojtěch Krebs Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Prof. Helena Kuvíková Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Slovakia Dr. Alexis Kythreotis School of Business Administration, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Prof. Juraj Nemec Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Assoc. prof. Primož Pevcin Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Prof. Cornelia Pop Faculty of Business, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj- Napoca, Romania Ing. Mgr. David Sláma Department of Strategic Development and Coordination of Public Administration, Ministry of the Interior, Czech Republic Prof. Diana Šaparniene Faculty of Social Science, University of Klaipeda, Lithuania Assoc. prof. Juraj Vačok Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia Assoc. prof. Jolana Volejníková Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic Prof. Elena Žárska Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia Assoc. prof. Vladimír Žítek Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Programme Committee Assoc. prof. Ing. Hana Kopáčková, head of Programme Committee Dr. Veronika Linhartová Dr. Michaela Kotková Stříteská Dr. Pavel Zdražil Reviewers Assoc. prof. Janka Beresecká, Assoc. prof. Tomáš Čech, Frank Febiri, Dr. Jan Fuka, Dr. György Gajduschek, Assoc. prof. Martina Halásková, Dr. Martina Hedvičáková, Assoc. prof. Miloslav Hub, Dr. Jana Janderová, Dr. Hana Jonášová, Dr. Radka Knězáčková, Assoc. prof. Hana Kopáčková, Dr. Sylvie Blaschke Kotíková, Assoc. prof. Josef Kunc, Dr. Ján Machyniak, Dr. Martin Maštálka, Dr. František Milichovský, Dr. Viktor Prokop, Assoc. prof. Romana Provazníková, Dr. Martin Šmíd, Dr. Martin Sobotka, Dr. Lucie Sobotková, Prof. Jan Stejskal, Dr. Libuše Svobodová, Assoc. prof. Olga Sych, Dr. Irena Szarowská, Dr. Pavel Taraba, Assoc. prof. Nataša Urbančíková Editors Assoc. prof. Liběna Černohorská Assoc. prof. Hana Kopáčková Suggested Citation Author, A., & Author, A. (2020). Title of Paper. In L. Černohorská & H. Kopáčková (Eds.). Proceedings of the 13th International Scientific Conference „Public Administration 2020: Three Decades of Challenges, Reforms, and Uncertain Results“ (pp. xx-xx). Pardubice: University of Pardubice. Content PROLOGUE 7 FUNDING OF PUBLIC HEALTH CARE IN EU COUNTRIES IN 2010-2018: PREPARATION FOR THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC? Lukáš Cíbik, Matúš Meluš 8 THE IMPACT OF ADMINISTRATIVE FRAGMENTATION ON PROVIDING PUBLIC SERVICES IN FUNCTIONING URBAN REGIONS – A CASE STUDY OF SLOVAKIA Tomáš Černěnko, Oliver Rafaj 19 EVALUATION OF THE BENEFITS OF LAG FOR THE FORMATION OF REIMAGE OF MUNICIPALITIES IN COAL REGIONS Martin Domín, Petr Hlaváček 31 BARRIERS INFLUENCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES Josef Horák, Jiřina Bokšová, Jiří Strouhal, Michal Bokša, Karel Pavlica 43 OUTSOURCING SOLUTIONS AND IT OUTSOURCING STRUCTURE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR Valerii Logvinov, Svitlana Malonoga 54 CHANGES IN ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND THEIR IMPACT ON SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL REGIONS Ján Machyniak, Beáta Adamkovičová, Dušan Guťan 65 QUALITY EVALUATION IN EDUCATION Daniela Mališová, Jana Štrangfeldová 78 TO THE CREATION OF FISCAL SPACE FOR HEALTH Jan Mertl 90 EGOVERNMENT AND CITIZENS’ APPROACH IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: PREFERENCES, OBSTACLES AND SOLUTIONS Karel Pavlica, Jiřina Bokšová, Michal Bokša, Josef Horák, Jiří Strouhal, Stanislav Šaroch 103 CORPORATE PERSPECTIVE ON DEVELOPMENT OF CZECH E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES Jiří Strouhal, Josef Horák, Jiřina Bokšová, Michal Bokša, Karel Pavlica 114 THE MULTI-LEVEL DYNAMICS OF STATE GOVERNANCE: DECENTRALIZATION TENDENCIES IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Martin Švikruha, León Richvalský 126 THE SEPARATE SYSTEM OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC Juraj Vačok, Lenka Grešová, Petra Uličná 139 DECENTRALIZATION VERSUS CENTRALIZATION AND FINANCING OF SLOVAK MUNICIPALITIES Elena Žárska 151 Prologue Dear colleagues, Even in the special "coronavirus" year 2020 the 13th International Scientific Conference „Public Administration 2020“ was organized by the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the University of Pardubice every two years. The importance of the conference is underlined by the fact that it is organized in cooperation with the Regional Authority of the Pardubice Region, the statutory city of Pardubice and under the auspices of the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the University of Pardubice. This year, due to coronavirus circumstances, our international conference had to be transferred to the online environment and the number of participants is affected by uncertainty due to state restrictions. Nevertheless, many supporters of public administration, public and regional economics and other fields submitted their contributions and participated in the presentation of this conference. The conference was also presented abroad and a number of foreign participants responded positively (e.g. from Lithuania, Poland or Italy). The expert guarantee of the conference was provided by the Conference Research Committee, which brought together experts from many European countries. All submitted papers at the conference were subjected to a review procedure. First, the submitted papers were reviewed internally by the Organizing Committee in terms of adherence to formal requirements, then the members of the Conference Research Committee consulted the papers from the point of view of topic compliance, and two blind reviews were made by experts in the conference topics. Positively reviewed papers are part of this Proceeding. This is a summary of the scientific and research activities realized in many reputable workplaces from different countries. I believe that the importance of the International Scientific Conference „Public Administration 2020“ will build on many previous successful years, will offer interesting papers to participants and other interested parties about the results of scientific research in the public sector and public administration and will contribute to the development of public administration. Pardubice, November 4, 2020. Prof. Jan Stejskal, Ph.D. Chairman Public Administration 2020 Conference Research Committee 7 FUNDING OF PUBLIC HEALTH CARE IN EU COUNTRIES IN 2010-2018: PREPARATION FOR THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC? Lukáš Cíbik, Matúš Meluš Abstract: The aim of our article is to identify the initial situation of public finances of the 27 EU countries in the field of public health and to monitor whether the amount of funds going to public health systems affects the successful fight against pandemic expressed by death toll and mortality per 1.000 infected patients. The result of our work is several significant findings, according to which below-average expenditure of EU countries in the field of health per capita indicate a better management of the pandemic (number of deaths and mortality per 1.000 infected). A specific case is Germany, which has the highest average health expenditure per capita of all EU countries and at the same time manages to maintain a very low death toll and mortality compared to countries with a similar number of COVID 19 infected. On the other hand, we found that even high amounts allocated to health care do not automatically mean more successfully managing the pandemic and minimizing the number of deaths or reducing mortality. Keywords: COVID 19, EU countries, Mortality, Public health,