Inter-Municipal Cooperation: A Widespread Phenomenon

Hulst, Rudie; Montfort, André van

doi:10.1007/1-4020-5379-7_1

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“…Municipalities are free to enter or leave IOs, except in a few well-defined policy areas where IMC is mandatory, e.g., fire protection. IMC takes different forms (Hulst and Van Montfort 2007). Under the Joint Provisions Act, municipalities may create public bodies.…”

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“…IMC may help municipalities that are simply too small to perform every task independently. IMC is often introduced with the aim of realising size-related efficiency gains (Hulst and Van Montfort 2007;Bartolini and Fiorillo 2011;Teles 2016). Indeed, it is often the need to cut cost that instigates cooperation (Kwon and Feiock 2010;Bel and Warner 2016).…”

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Intermunicipal cooperation, public spending and service levels

Allers

Greef

2017

Local Government Studies

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Local governments can increase size in particular policy fields through cooperation with other local governments. This is often thought to improve efficiency, but there is little empirical evidence supporting this hypothesis. We study the case of the Netherlands, which has been a veritable laboratory of intermunicipal cooperation (IMC), using panel data for 2005-2013. We find no evidence that IMC reduces total spending of the average municipality. Indeed, IMC seems to increase spending in small and large municipalities, leaving spending in mid-sized municipalities unaffected. In one specific field, tax collection, spending may be reduced through IMC. Spending in this field is low, which may explain why total spending is unaffected. Instead of lowering spending, municipalities may have used possible cost savings as a result of IMC to improve public service levels. We do not find evidence substantiating this hypothesis, however.

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Section: Institutional Set-upmentioning

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Intermunicipal cooperation, public spending and service levels

Allers

Greef

2017

Local Government Studies

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“…Už dnes je ale zajímavé analyzovat nejen míru zapojení jednotlivých municipalit do meziobecní spolupráce, ale i výši výdajů, které na ni směřují, protože to do značné míry vyjadřuje postoj obce k meziobecní spolupráci a priority jejího budoucího rozvoje. Při studiu spolupráci mezi obcemi však je třeba brát v úvahu různé variace jak v institucionálním kontextu, tak i při tvorbě politik místní správy ( Hulst, van Montfort, 2007).…”

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Financování meziobecní spolupráce v Českém Krumlově

Dušek¹

2014

17. Mezinárodní Kolokvium O Regionálních Vědách. Sborník Příspěvků. 17th International Colloquium on Regional Sciences. Confere

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ÚvodMenší obce a města se v současné době potýkají s problematikou získávání financí pro svůj rozvoj a udržování majetku, se kterým disponují. Alokace veřejných financí je proto každoroční otázkou pro všechny starosty a zastupitelstva obcí. Tomuto neutěšenému stavu příliš nenahrávají ani poměrně časté změny rozpočtového určení daní, kdy obce nemají dlouhodobě jistotu určité výše příjmů. Dále legislativní změny přenášejí na menší města a obce více pravomocí a povinností, avšak bez odpovídajícího finančního zabezpečení. Vzhledem k poměrně roztříštěné sídelní struktuře ČR tak mohou obce do budoucna stát před zásadním dilematem, zda budou fungovat samostatně či budou existenčně nuceny se slučovat a vytvářet větší celky. Pro obce se tak nabízí i otázka větší míry spolupráce či partnerství nejen v rámci ČR, ale i se zahraničními regiony, díky nimž by mohly získat

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“…Democratic control of self-governments activities might also be hampered. More complex management structures and possibly more bureaucracy may increase costs of public administration operation but do not guarantee that governance in metropolitan area will be more effective (Lefevre 1998;Nunes and Barlow 2002;Herschell and Newman 2002;Hulst and van Montfort 2007).…”

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Cooperation and networking in metropolitan areas from community of problems to community of common interests in the Warsaw Metropolitan Area

Grochowski¹

2009

Eur. XXI

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Abstract. Since 1990, Polish municipalities have exercised planning power in terms of deciding on the ways of their economic and spatial development. Results of dynamic and sometimes uncontrolled, spontaneous development processes cross the borders of municipalities bringing problems, that can not be addressed, and solved by one municipality. Polish legislation provides legal basis for cooperation of municipalities: they may establish common goals' unions and associations in order to deal with problems that are important for more than one municipality. However, experience of the last several years proves that cooperation among municipalities is not an easy task. It creates problems especially within functional urban areas, including metropolitan ones. In this paper, the issue of cooperation among municipalities from the Warsaw Metropolitan Area (WMA) is addressed using the perspective of networking and formulation of common development policy.

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Inter-Municipal Cooperation: A Widespread Phenomenon

Cited by 85 publications

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Intermunicipal cooperation, public spending and service levels

Intermunicipal cooperation, public spending and service levels

Financování meziobecní spolupráce v Českém Krumlově

Cooperation and networking in metropolitan areas from community of problems to community of common interests in the Warsaw Metropolitan Area

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