Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe Institutions and Governance /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Teles, Filipe (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Swianiewicz, Pawel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Governance and Public Management,
• Θέματα: Public policy.; Political science.; Public administration.; Public Policy.; Governance and Government.; Public Administration.

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 col...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1: Introduction: motives for revisiting inter-municipal cooperation; Filipe Teles and Pawel Swianiewicz
• Section One - Drivers, Democracy and Delivery
• 2: Inter-municipal cooperation and austerity policies: obstacles or opportunities?; Ringa Raudla and António Tavares
• 3: Actors in inter-municipal cooperation; Pawel Swianiewicz
• 4:A borrowed mandate? Democratic legitimacy of inter-municipal entities - a comparative analysis; Adam Gendźwiłł and Marta Lackowska
• 5: Striving for local governance capacity in Portugal and Spain; Patrícia Silva and Esther Pano
• 6: Reasons for inter-municipal cooperation: A comparative analysis of Finland, Iceland and Norway; Grétar Thór Eythórsson, Pekka Kettunen, and Jan Erling Klausen
• Section Two - Cooperation in Europe
• 7: Inter-municipal cooperation in France: a continuous reform, new trends; Robert Hertzog
• 8: Inter-municipal cooperation in the Netherlands; Pieter-Jan Klok, Marcel Boogers, Bas Denters, Maurits Sanders
• 9: Inter-municipal cooperation in Switzerland; Reto Steiner and Claire Kaiser
• 10: Traditions, problems and challenges of inter-municipal cooperation in the German federal state of Brandenburg; Jochen Franzke
• 11: Bigger and stronger together: How Icelandic municipalities solve their lack of capacity and scale economy; Grétar Thór Eythórsson
• 12: Inter-local financial transfers as a measure of cooperation in Poland; Julita Łukomska and Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska
• 13: Inter-municipal cooperation in Slovenia: an intermediate step towards regionalization; Irena Bačlija-Brajnik
• 14: 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 and Jaume Magre Ferran
• Section Three - Success and failure: case-studies
• 15: The rise and fall of the union: a case in Poland; Paweł Swianiewicz and Adam Gendźwiłł
• 16: The architecture of a complex system: the Oradea Metropolitan Area in Romania; Cristina Stănuș
• 17: Korça Waste Management and the territorial reform in Albania; Alba Dakoli Wilson
• 18: Mapping the success: inter-municipal cooperation in two Czech Micro-regions; Jakub Lysek and Pavel Šaradín
• 19: Can tiny municipalities survive through extensive IMC arrangements? The case of Iceland; Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir
• 20: Conclusion: Inter-municipal cooperation diversity, evolution and future research agenda; Pawel Swianiewicz and Filipe Teles.