Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe

Buch | Hardcover
238 Seiten
2007
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-5378-8 (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 New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-4020-5378-9 / 1402053789
ISBN-13 978-1-4020-5378-8 / 9781402053788
Zustand Neuware
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