Revenue from user charges for local services and expenditures in large Polish cities Cover Image

Dochody z opłat za usługi samorządowe a poziom wydatków w miastach na prawach powiatów
Revenue from user charges for local services and expenditures in large Polish cities

Author(s): Marcin Będzieszak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Governance, Public Law, Sociology, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: opłaty za usługi; finanse samorządowe; usługi samorządowe

Summary/Abstract: This article reviews the literature on relations between user charges and expenditures for local services, which allowed to formulate the expected directions of relations in order to conduct a research in a group of 65 cities. The study negatively verified the hypothesis of a negative relationship between revenues from user charges and expenditures on the services, both globally and for selected services.

  • Issue Year: 30/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 151-163
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish