Yerel Yönetimlerde Ölçek Ekonomisi: Teori, Kavram ve Tartışmalar
Yıl: 2019 Cilt: 24 Sayı: 95 Sayfa Aralığı: 163 - 192 Metin Dili: Türkçe DOI: 10.36484/liberal.612182 İndeks Tarihi: 17-06-2020
Yerel Yönetimlerde Ölçek Ekonomisi: Teori, Kavram ve Tartışmalar
Öz: Ölçek ekonomisi tezi, yerel kamu hizmetlerini daha ekonomik sunabilmeyi, yerel yönetimbüyüklüğünde arayan reformların temel gerekçelerinden biridir. Ölçek ekonomilerinin varlığıhalinde ve optimal tesis büyüklüğü aşılmadığı müddetçe, somut bir yerel hizmetin üretimindekigirdileri arttırmak suretiyle, çıktının ortalama maliyetleri düşürülebilir. Ancak, ölçekekonomisi tezinin yerel yönetim literatüründeki kullanımı, bu senaryo üzerinden temellendirilmez.Yerel otoritenin büyüklüğünün, coğrafi alan ya da nüfus olarak arttırılması suretiyle,maliyetlerde tasarruf sağlama beklentisi üzerinden kurgulanır. Başka bir deyişle, esasenfirma teorisine ait bir tez olan ölçek ekonomisi, yerel yönetimler alanında bağlamındankoparılmak suretiyle kullanılır. Çıktının üretimden koparılıp, nüfus üzerinden tanımlanmasıyanında, yerel otoritenin boyutundan ya da hizmet sunma kapasitesinden kaynaklanan kazançlarda ölçek kazançları olarak adlandırılır. Bu çalışmanın ilk amacı kavramları doğru birçerçeveye oturtabilmektir. İkinci olarak ölçek kazançlarının tüm yerel hizmet yelpazesi vetüm yerel yönetim büyüklükleri için geçerli bir yaklaşım olamayacağı vurgulanmıştır. Ayrıca,yerel yönetimlerde ölçek ekonomisi tezine yönelik pek çok alan araştırmasının bulgularınaçalışma içinde yer verilerek, büyüklük ve verimlilik ilişkisinin deneysel kanıtları ortaya konmayaçalışılmıştır. Bu kanıtlar, ölçek ekonomisi kaynaklı maliyet tasarrufları beklentisininher durumda karşılığı olmadığını göstermektedir.
Anahtar Kelime: Scale Economy in Local Government: Theory, Concept and Debates
Öz: The scale economy thesis is one of the leading motives of the reforms that seek more economic local public services on the basis of the local government size. In case of the existence of scale economies, average costs of the output can be reduced by means of increasing the inputs in a concrete local service’s production as long as optimal size of service area isn’t exceeded. However, the usage of the scale economy thesis in the literature of local government isn’t grounded over this scenario. It is built through the expectation of saving on the costs by means of increasing local authority’s size as a geographical area or population. In other words, the scale economy which is a thesis substantially belonging to the theory of the firm is used in a decontextualized way in the area of local governments. With snatching the output from production and defining it via population, gains which arise from the size of local authority or service capacity are also called as scale gains. The first aim is being able to frame the concepts correctly. Secondly, it is emphasized that scale gains cannot be a valid approach for the whole range of local service and local government sizes. Providing findings of many field research, empirical evidences of the relationship between size and efficiency are also presented. These evidences show that the expectation of cost savings originating from the scale economy doesn’t correspond in all cases.
Anahtar Kelime: Belge Türü: Makale Makale Türü: Araştırma Makalesi Erişim Türü: Erişime Açık
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