Inter-municipal cooperation in public service delivery has attracted the interest of local
authorities seeking to reform public service provision. Cost saving, together with better …

There is a growing maintenance debt of ageing and critical infrastructures in many
municipalities in European welfare states. In this article, we use the multidimensional …

This paper provides new evidence on why municipalities are often reluctant to integrate.
Exploiting a French reform that made inter-municipal cooperation mandatory, I find that …

With the objective of expanding fire protection services to cover sparsely populated areas,
an important reform has been implemented in the region of Galicia (Spain) over the two last …

We use a hazard model to identify the factors that drive the emergence of inter-municipal
cooperation (IMC) in tasks of internal administration in West-Germany between 2003 and …

This paper examines the question: Does the existence of regional spillovers have an impact
on the emergence of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in tourism marketing? We use data …

After earlier waves of privatization, local governments have increasingly taken back control
of local service provisions in some sectors and countries and instead started providing those …

This study investigates how local decision-makers influence the impact of high-level
government meta-governance tools on environmental inter-local collaboration when the …

Inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) is often proposed as a politically feasible way by which
rural municipalities can cope with intensified interregional competition and demographic …

All over Europe, but especially in post-communist countries, the institutional environment
has been undergoing major changes. In Slovakia, regaining their autonomy has led local …