Overview
- Systematic information about inter-municipal cooperation in eight European countries
- Reflection on the significance and future of inter-municipal cooperation
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe
Editors: Rudie Hulst, André van Montfort
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5379-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5378-8Published: 26 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7355-6Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5379-5Published: 11 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 238
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Cities, Countries, Regions, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Administrative Law, Political Science