About the Good Governance of Bulgarian agriculture
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https://doi.org/10.7251/ZARS2301154BKeywords:
good governance, assessment, agriculture, BulgariaAbstract
A new evolving concept of “Good Governance” has been increasingly debated in academic, governmental, business etc., circles. This paper tries to fill the existing gap suggesting a holistic framework for assessing the quality (goodness) of agrarian governance and estimating its level in Bulgaria. The assessment framework includes: defining the content and components of the agrarian governance system (Institutional Environment, Mechanisms and Forms of Governance, Process of Governing, Agents, and Systemic); formulating the principles of good agrarian governance (Good Legislation, Respectful Informal Rules, Good Working Public Sector, Good Working Private Sector, Good Working Markets, High Transparency, Good Involvement, High Efficiency, Good Leadership, Equity and Solidarity, and High Synergy); specifying the assessment aspects for each principle; identifying the best indicators for each aspect; selecting the criteria and reference values for assessing the quality of agrarian governance for each indicators; and deriving the good governance assessment score. The initial assessment using statistical and expert data found out that the Integral Governance Index of Bulgarian agriculture is at moderate level having in mind the EU perspective. The highest performance is attained under the principles of Equity and Solidarity and the Good Working Public Sector while in terms of the Working Private Sector and the Stakeholders Involvements it is the lowest.
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