Notwithstanding the considerable investments in the last decade, highly praised concept of e-government has largely failed to achieve the expected results. Consumption of e-government services is far below government anticipations, while the expected benefits in terms of cost reduction and greater effectiveness of public administration are still in early stages. All these facts suggest that current evaluation of e-government policies and related decision-making is inadequate, whereas lacking formal procedures and reliable indicator models consequently results in poor quality planning and implementation of e-government policies. Paper presents an analysis of existing indicator models for evaluation of e-government policies, identifies characteristic evaluation aspects and evaluation levels and conceptualizes an integrated indicator model for evaluation of e-government policies. Analysis offers an insight into the current evaluation practice, enables detection of its deficiencies and provides a significant contribution to the development of applicable indicator models facilitating more evidencebased evaluation of e-government policies.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 3943086Administrative proceedings are classically understood as a framework for balancing and resolving collisions between public and private legal interests of natural and legal persons in their relation towards (administrative) authorities. In order to design and implement more effective public policies and at the same time effectively protect human and other individual rights, it is necessary to develop new forms of decision making. Pure authoritative - albeit not arbitrary - decision making does not comply with contemporary participative democracy and good government/governance modes. Likewise, account is to be taken of the strongly scarce resources of administrative agencies and courts. Additionally, there is a significant problem of backlogs in administrative proceedings and (administrative) courts workload that prevent decisions to be made in reasonable time according to the ECHR. The present research has been carried to establish the scope and depth of the problem of effectiveness in such area in Slovenia, focusing on the effective use of mandatory appeal as a precondition for judicial review and on parallel approaches, such as mediation and procedures involving the ombudsman. The analysis is based on the characteristics of Slovene general law on administrative procedure and the common state administrative statistics for 2007-2011, with detailed insights into selected problem areas (e.g. collecting taxes, issuing building permits, deciding on pension insurance rights). The main findings confirm that the Slovene system is a classic system deriving from the Austrian heritage, which is generally efficient in preserving legally protected interests. Data point to a reduction of backlogs and highlight administrative appeal as an important selection criterion for further access to court. Yet the Slovene regulation and praxis indeed leave room for further modernisation to support dispute resolution per agreement and achieve good administration, which is simultaneously democratic and efficient. Such modes (e.g. mediation and administrative contracts) are to be developed in specific fields rather than under a general law owing to certain systemic impediments concerning the protection of public interest and legality on the basis of material truth in administrative relations.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 3942574Scientists use two forms of knowledge in the construction of explanatory models: generalized entities and processes that relate them; and constraints that specify acceptable combinations of these components. Previous research on inductive process modeling, which constructs models from knowledge and time-series data, has relied on handcrafted constraints. In this paper, we report an approach to discovering such constraints from a set of models that have been ranked according to their error on observations. Our approach adapts inductive techniques for supervised learning to identify process combinations that characterize accurate models. We evaluate the methodʼs ability to reconstruct known constraints and to generalize well to other modeling tasks in the same domain. Experiments with synthetic data indicate that the approach can successfully reconstruct known modeling constraints. Another study using natural data suggests that transferring constraints acquired from one modeling scenario to another within the same domain considerably reduces the amount of search for candidate model structures while retaining the most accurate ones.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 4051118The work implies an introductory study on the development of administrative procedures in Slovenia and in Europe, and then examines institute administrative procedural law, classified into nine chapters, with specific questions and answers from the practice and the case law, which includes content analysis and critical reasoning.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 261446144Definitions of the concept of tax expenditure have differed over time and among proponents of different theories. Tax expenditure analyses have been an important element in the supervision of reform processes linked to implementing different kinds of tax incentive and for managing a correct tax policy. The paper provides an evaluation of tax expenditure in Slovenia relating to personal income tax and corporate income tax. Three tax years were selected for the calculation of the tax expenditure for personal income tax (2006, 2008 and 2009), while three consecutive years were selected for the corporate income tax calculation (2008-2010). The tax expenditure calculated for personal income tax was highest in 2008, however the level was relatively low for all three years, not even reaching 0.5% of total personal income tax collected. The tax expenditure calculated for corporate income tax was higher compared to the tax collected, reaching 47% in 2010, though in 2008 it was only just over 22%.
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