Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe

Hulst, Rudie (Editor) / van Montfort, André (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9048173558 / ISBN 13: 9789048173556

Published by Springer, 2007

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248 pages. 8.80x5.90x0.90 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9048173558
• ISBN 13: 9789048173556
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.41 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.