Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe: Institutions and Governance

✍ Scribed by Filipe Teles, Pawel Swianiewicz (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Series: Governance and Public Management
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book sheds light on the central complexities of municipal cooperation and examines the dynamics, experiences and drivers of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in Europe. Particular attention is given to the features of governance arrangements and institutions created to generate and maintain collaborative settings between different local governments in a particular territory.
The thematically grouped case studies presented here address the dearth of comprehensive and comparative analyses in recent scholarship. The authors provide fresh insights into the rise of inter-municipal cooperation and its evolution during a period of financial crisis and European Union enlargement. This includes critical examinations of the impact of austerity policies, the behavior and perceptions of key actors; and under-explored new member states. Crucially, this work goes beyond the comparison of institutional forms of IMC to address why the phenomenon so widespread and questions whether it is successful, manageable and democratic.
This work which presents the most recent and innovative research on inter-local collaborative arrangements will appeal to practitioners as well as scholars of local government, public economy, public administration and policy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Motives for Revisiting Inter-municipal Cooperation (Filipe Teles, Pawel Swianiewicz)....Pages 1-13
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
Inter-municipal Cooperation and Austerity Policies: Obstacles or Opportunities? (Ringa Raudla, António F. Tavares)....Pages 17-41
Actors in Inter-municipal Cooperation (Pawel Swianiewicz)....Pages 43-56
A Borrowed Mandate? Democratic Legitimacy of Inter-municipal Entities: A Comparative Analysis (Adam Gendźwiłł, Marta Lackowska)....Pages 57-77
Striving for Local Governance Capacity in Portugal and Spain (Patrícia Silva, Esther Pano Puey)....Pages 79-104
Reasons for Inter-municipal Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis of Finland, Iceland and Norway (Grétar Thór Eythórsson, Pekka Kettunen, Jan Erling Klausen, Siv Sandberg)....Pages 105-129
Front Matter ....Pages 131-131
Inter-municipal Cooperation in France: A Continuous Reform, New Trends (Robert Hertzog)....Pages 133-155
Inter-municipal Cooperation in the Netherlands (Pieter-Jan Klok, Marcel Boogers, Bas Denters, Maurits Sanders)....Pages 157-171
Inter-municipal Cooperation in Switzerland (Reto Steiner, Claire Kaiser)....Pages 173-187
Traditions, Problems and Challenges of Inter-municipal Cooperation in the German Federal State of Brandenburg (Jochen Franzke)....Pages 189-207
Bigger and Stronger Together: How Icelandic Municipalities Solve Their Lack of Capacity and Scale Economy (Grétar Thór Eythórsson)....Pages 209-224
Inter-local Financial Transfers as a Measure of Cooperation in Poland (Julita Łukomska, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska)....Pages 225-243
Inter-municipal Cooperation in Slovenia: An Intermediate Step Towards Regionalisation (Irena Bačlija-Brajnik)....Pages 245-257
Layer upon Layer: The Position of Inter-municipal Cooperation in the Spanish Quasi-Federal System—The Case of Catalonia (Esther Pano Puey, Lluis Medir Tejado, Carla Puiggròs Mussons, Jaume Magre Ferran)....Pages 259-277
Front Matter ....Pages 279-279
The Rise and Fall of the Union: A Case in Poland (Paweł Swianiewicz, Adam Gendźwiłł)....Pages 281-291
The Architecture of a Complex System: The Oradea Metropolitan Area in Romania (Cristina Stănuș)....Pages 293-303
Korça Waste Management and the Territorial Reform in Albania (Alba Dakoli Wilson)....Pages 305-314
Mapping the Success: Inter-municipal Cooperation in Two Czech Micro-regions (Jakub Lysek, Pavel Šaradín)....Pages 315-326
Can Tiny Municipalities Survive Through Extensive IMC Arrangements? The Case of Iceland (Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir)....Pages 327-331
Front Matter ....Pages 333-333
Inter-municipal Cooperation Diversity, Evolution and Future Research Agenda (Pawel Swianiewicz, Filipe Teles)....Pages 335-350
Back Matter ....Pages 351-354

✦ Subjects

Public Policy