Changes in the financing of municipalities and local governments of selected cities: possible effects on disintegration processes and municipal policy

Roubínek, Pavel; Kladivo, Petr; Halás, Marián; Koutský, Jaroslav; Opravil, Zdeněk

doi:10.15240/tul/001/2015-1-011

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“…The governance of shrinkage in Ústí nad Labem is a product of complex, multilayered and overlapping activities by public and private players at the regional and city level. Since the early 1990s, there has been a strong political drive to emancipate local actors as part (and consequence) of the democratization process (Roubínek et al ., 2015). Several important formal and legal development entities have been established at the local level, and many competent professionals have been hired.…”

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URBAN SHRINKAGE IN CHINA, THE USA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC: A Comparative Multilevel Governance Perspective

Zhou¹,

Koutský²,

Hollander³

2021

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Although the phenomenon of shrinking cities is a global one, policy responses can vary considerably depending on context. This article examines the initiatives of government agencies in a variety of contexts and finds that cities adopt different strategies to manage the problems of shrinkage. Specifically, the article presents an international comparison of three shrinking cities: Fu Xin in China, New Bedford in the USA, and Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. These three cases, which present three distinctive political frameworks (namely, centralism, localism and indirect centralism), have responded to the issue differently but experienced similarly insufficient policy outcomes. We observed that the political agenda‐setting for shrinking cities involved more than simply choosing to ignore, deny or accept the problem, and focused instead on how the local governments opted to recognize their problems, assembled the political willpower and leadership to address them, and gave shape to the policy choices that created a specific narrative for their city. From a comparative perspective, we argue that cities cannot manage their shrinkage without support from other levels of government. In other words, a successful response to urban shrinkage requires multilevel governance to contextualize the locally‐based phenomenon, de‐contextualize the role of multilevel politics, and re‐contextualize the set of policies and actions that can be utilized.

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URBAN SHRINKAGE IN CHINA, THE USA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC: A Comparative Multilevel Governance Perspective

Zhou¹,

Koutský²,

Hollander³

2021

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Lastly, although the city's population continues to decline, it is not reflected in its revenues. The dominant source of revenues for the municipal budget (approximately 80%) is the centrally redistributed revenue from shared taxes by the number of residents (in detail [116,124]). What is important is that these revenues are tied to the state of the national economy, which explains why, despite the decline in population, the municipal income is growing from these taxes.…”

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Urban Shrinkage and Sustainability: Assessing the Nexus between Population Density, Urban Structures and Urban Sustainability

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Urban shrinkage has become a common pathway (not only) in post-socialist cities, which represents new challenges for traditionally growth-oriented spatial planning. Though in the post-socialist area, the situation is even worse due to prevailing weak planning culture and resulting uncoordinated development. The case of the city of Ostrava illustrates how the problem of (in)efficient infrastructure operation, and maintenance, in already fragmented urban structure is exacerbated by the growing size of urban area (through low-intensity land-use) in combination with declining size of population (due to high rate of outmigration). Shrinkage, however, is, on the intra-urban level, spatially differentiated. Population, paradoxically, most intensively declines in the least financially demanding land-uses and grows in the most expensive land-uses for public administration. As population and urban structure development prove to have strong inertia, this land-use development constitutes a great challenge for a city’s future sustainability. The main objective of the paper is to explore the nexus between change in population density patterns in relation to urban shrinkage, and sustainability of public finance.

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“…For example, Portella and Teixeira (2016) note that total incomes from taxes and contributions amounted to only 7.83% of consolidated public incomes, so the municipal incomes with intergovernmental transfers exceeds in 80.33% the incomes with tributes and contributions of its competence. Also Roubinek et al (2015) note that the financing of cities and municipalities in the Czech Republic is different from other European countries. Bigger cities have higher tax income per capita (because they perform the functions which are used by the inhabitants of smaller municipalities).…”

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The evaluation of the relations between the state budget and the local self‑government budgets (case study of the Slovak Republic)

Papcunová¹,

Balážová²,

Ágh³

2019

XXII. Mezinárodní Kolokvium O Regionálních Vědách, Velké Bílovice, 12.–14. Června 2019

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Changes in the financing of municipalities and local governments of selected cities: possible effects on disintegration processes and municipal policy

Cited by 10 publications

References 10 publications

URBAN SHRINKAGE IN CHINA, THE USA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC: A Comparative Multilevel Governance Perspective

URBAN SHRINKAGE IN CHINA, THE USA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC: A Comparative Multilevel Governance Perspective

Urban Shrinkage and Sustainability: Assessing the Nexus between Population Density, Urban Structures and Urban Sustainability

The evaluation of the relations between the state budget and the local self‑government budgets (case study of the Slovak Republic)

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