Reorganizing Local Government: Between Territorial Consolidation and Two-tier Intermunicipality
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Territorial reorganisation of local governments can rely on voluntary or imposed mergers of general-purpose local units or on creating functionally oriented intermunicipal bodies. Detailed institutional analysis of the German and the French local self-governments has been conducted. Other European comparative examples, except Germany and France, are also analysed. The Nordic model of consolidation by mergers has been practised, in different stages of their institutional development, in the U.K., Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Denmark, and more recently in Greece. Fragmentation, small units and intermunicipal cooperation are characteristics of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. Special attention is given to Turkish case, which has been developing in line with North European model based on merging small municipalities.
Author: Hellmut Wollmann
Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2188019528