Municipal Amalgamation Reforms
Author | : António Tavares |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031547365 |
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Author | : António Tavares |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : |
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ISBN | : 3031547365 |
Author | : Paweł Swianiewicz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2022-01-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000537579 |
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of territorial change on the municipal level across all European countries. Taking a thematic and comparative perspective, the book builds on extensive quantitative data and a large survey of academic experts in 33 European countries. Territorial organisation of the municipal level in Europe is strongly diversified and yet far from stable. Politically speaking, territorial reforms tend to be risky and difficult, as such changes affect vital interests and identities. Despite such difficulties, the last two decades have witnessed considerable changes in territorial divisions at the municipal level across a range of European countries. In this book, the authors describe and analyse these changes comprehensively, making a vital contribution to understanding the reasons and dynamics of territorial reform processes. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in local or sub-national government, institutional design and more broadly to political science, public administration/policy, human geography, sociology and economics.
Author | : Sabine Kuhlmann |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-09-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781137525475 |
This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies. Based on the results of COST research entitled, ‘Local Public Sector Reforms: an International Comparison’, this volume takes a European-scale approach, examining local government in 28 countries. Local government has been the most seriously affected by the continuously expanding global financial crisis and austerity policies in some countries, and is experiencing a period of increased reform activity as a result. This book considers both those local governments which have adopted or moved away from New Public Management (NPM) modernization to ‘something different’ (what some commentators have labelled ‘post-NPM’), as well as those which have implemented ‘other-than-NPM measures’, such as territorial reforms and democratic innovations.
Author | : Bas Denters |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2014-09-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1783478241 |
How large should local governments be, and what are the implications of changing the scale of local governments for the quality of local democracy? These questions have stood at the centre of debates among scholars and public sector reformers alike fro
Author | : Council of Europe. Committee on Co-operation in Municipal and Regional Matters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : International cooperation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J.B. Carr |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2016-07-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317474473 |
City-country consolidation builds upon the Progressive tradition of favoring structural reform of local governments. This volume looks at some important issues confronting contemporary efforts to consolidate governments and develops a theoretical approach to understanding both the motivations for pursuing consolidation and the way the rules guiding the process shape the outcome. Individual chapters consider the push for city-county consolidation and the current context in which such decisions are debated, along with several alternatives to city-county consolidation. The transaction costs of city-county consolidation are compared against the costs of municipal annexation, inter-local agreements, and the use of special district governments to achieve the desired consolidation of services. The final chapters compare competing perspectives for and against consolidation and put together some of the pieces of an explanatory theory of local government consolidation.
Author | : Joseph Drew |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2022-01-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9811643326 |
This book focuses squarely on the problem of saving local government in the context of extraordinary financial challenges being faced across the globe. Saving Local Government is written principally for practitioners and employs a ‘conversational’ tone which makes complex theory both engaging and accessible. It augments world-best scholarship with Professor Joseph Drew’s extensive practical experience in guiding local governments away from the brink of financial insolvency. It is thus a ‘must read’ for local government executives, Mayors, Councillors and the regulators that oversee the sector. In Saving Local Government Professor Drew also makes a number of important contributions to address significant gaps in the scholarly literature. In particular, the book includes extensive treatment of de-amalgamation, applied natural law philosophy, Aristotelian epistemology for evaluating public policy success, as well as alternatives to financial administration. The work is therefore also compelling reading for scholars.
Author | : Brian Dollery |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781781956687 |
'Structural reform has been one of the most important, and yet one of the most neglected, aspects of modern local government. This book represents the first attempt, since the early seventies, at providing a comprehensive account of both the theory and practice of structural reform in local government in developed countries. Using recent policy experience from seven different countries, the authors present seminal theoretical perspectives on structural reforms in local governance and the policy implications deriving from them. Written by well-known scholars of local government from around the world, this volume is a "must-read" for all academics, practitioners, students and policymakers.' - Giorgio Brosio, University of Turin, Italy
Author | : Filipe Teles |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2017-11-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319628194 |
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 collaborative settings between different local governments in a particular territory. The thematically grouped case studies presented here address the dearth of comprehensive and comparative analyses in recent scholarship. The authors provide fresh insights into the rise of inter-municipal cooperation and its evolution during a period of financial crisis and European Union enlargement. This includes critical examinations of the impact of austerity policies, the behavior and perceptions of key actors; and under-explored new member states. Crucially, this work goes beyond the comparison of institutional forms of IMC to address why the phenomenon so widespread and questions whether it is successful, manageable and democratic. This work which presents the most recent and innovative research on inter-local collaborative arrangements will appeal to practitioners as well as scholars of local government, public economy, public administration and policy.
Author | : Dr Ian Tiley |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1479738972 |
Recent Australian local government structural reform has manifested as council amalgamations and predominantly as imposed merger processes. This book examines council amalgamations across Australia over the past two decades and uncovers the case of council amalgamation in the NSW Clarence Valley Council (CVC) since 2004. The case of forced amalgamation of four general-purpose and two county councils could have been a recipe for chaos; instead this book describes the gains and the challenges. Writing from deep seated knowledge of local government this book details the net positive economic outcomes and financial benefits against measurable indicators and describes the impacts on local democracy. Based on detailed research, this long term local government ‘insider’ perspective will be of value to all those interested in driving change through local government reform.