Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe

Rudie Hulst, André van Montfort (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-7355-6 (ISBN)

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Over the past fifty years, local government in Europe has been confronted with escalating scales of production, population migration and market pressures. These developments have complicated its performance, challenged its domain and even threatened its existence. A popular coping strategy is inter-municipal cooperation, a phenomenon that, despite its ubiquity, has not been subject to systematic comparative research.

This book presents an overview of inter-municipal cooperation in eight European countries. Each country study sketches its attendant forms, their institutional design, the tasks and competencies attributed to joint authorities of municipalities and the way inter-municipal cooperation operates in practice. Both performance and democratic aspects of cooperation are recurring topics. The last chapter of the book presents a comparative analysis and reflects on the future of inter-municipal cooperation.

Dr. Rudie Hulst (1953) and Dr. André van Montfort (1959) teach public administration at the Department of Public Administration and Organisation Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Their main topic of research is intergovernmental relations.

Inter-Municipal Cooperation: A Widespread Phenomenon.- Belgium: Flemish Inter-Municipal Cooperation Under Reform.- Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Finland: Old Traditions and New Promises.- Inter-Municipal Cooperation in France: Incentives, Instrumentality and Empty Shells.- Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Germany: The Mismatch Between Existing Necessities and Suboptimal Solutions.- Italy: The Changing Boundaries of Inter-Municipal Cooperation.- The Netherlands: Cooperation as the only Viable Strategy.- Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Spain: Dealing with Microscopic Local Government.- The Missing Ingredient: Inter-Municipal Cooperation and Central-Local Relations in the UK.- Comparative Analysis and Conclusions.

Zusatzinfo	X, 238 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Architektur
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	90-481-7355-8 / 9048173558
ISBN-13	978-90-481-7355-6 / 9789048173556
Zustand	Neuware