03256nam a22004935i 4500 978-1-4020-5379-5 DE-He213 20260521092122.0 cr nn 008mamaa 100301s2007 ne | s |||| 0|eng d 9781402053795 99781402053795 10.1007/1-4020-5379-7 doi 338.9 23 Hulst, Rudie. editor. Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Rudie Hulst, André van Montfort. Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007. X, 238 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Inter-Municipal Cooperation: A Widespread Phenomenon -- Belgium: Flemish Inter-Municipal Cooperation Under Reform -- Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Finland: Old Traditions and New Promises -- Inter-Municipal Cooperation in France: Incentives, Instrumentality and Empty Shells -- Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Germany: The Mismatch Between Existing Necessities and Suboptimal Solutions -- Italy: The Changing Boundaries of Inter-Municipal Cooperation -- The Netherlands: Cooperation as the only Viable Strategy -- Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Spain: Dealing with Microscopic Local Government -- The Missing Ingredient: Inter-Municipal Cooperation and Central-Local Relations in the UK -- Comparative Analysis and Conclusions. 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. ECONOMICS. REGIONAL PLANNING. ARCHITECTURE. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW. POLITICAL SCIENCE. ECONOMICS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE. REGIONAL SCIENCE. CITIES, COUNTRIES, REGIONS. LANDSCAPE/REGIONAL AND URBAN PLANNING. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW. POLITICAL SCIENCE. Montfort, André van. editor. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer eBooks Printed edition: 9781402053788 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5379-7 Ver el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY ZDB-2-SBE ddc ER 37184 37184 0 0 ddc 0 0 LE CICY CICY EL 2025-10-06 0 338.9 2025-10-06 08:45:20 2025-10-06 ER