Public Authorities and Intermunicipal Cooperation in a European Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8039401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anders Lidström (Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 403-409 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1078087416630613 |
| OpenAlex | W2416294271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 14 |
Although not entirely clear with regard to definitions and delimitations, the article by Savitch and Adhikari opens up for a comparative research agenda of considerable importance for better understanding the preconditions for how the metropolis can be governed. Their suggestion that public authorities are important for solving collective problems in the metropolitan areas is also relevant in a European context. There is already a tradition in Europe to establish cooperative arrangements between metropolitan local governments for tasks that requires a larger territorial scale, but Savitch and Adhikari direct our attention to private law arrangements, i.e. inter-municipal corporations. Also in Europe, these have become increasingly common, which may be understood in the light of the increasing marketization of local government. Although lacking in democratic legitimacy, they provide more flexibility and may also include private businesses in their governing body. However, knowledge about their occurrence and functions is limited, which calls for further, systematic and comparative research. In particular, it should be investigated whether they, as in the US, are more common in the metropolitan areas with the strongest resources
Business · Comparative case · Context (archaeology · Economics · European union · Flexibility (engineering · Geography · Legitimacy · Local government · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Regional science · Sociology · Law · Local Governance and Planning · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
The Democratic Legitimacy of Intermunicipal Cooperation
Performance of municipally owned corporations
How Municipalities Exploit Their De Facto Power to Manage Metropolitan Planning Through Mutual Deference
Response to Lidstrom, Lewis, and Barnes on Fragmented Regionalism
Looking at Regional Governance Institutions in Other Countries as a Possible Model for U.S. Metropolitan Areas
The costs of corporatization
Factors affecting chief executive officers’ managerial autonomy in municipally owned corporations
Intermunicipal Cooperation in Metropolitan Regions in Brazil and Mexico
Local governments and their arm’s length bodies
Ten years after
Governance of Europe's City Regions
Governing from Below
The political economy of regionalism
Metropolitan government and governance in western countries
Fragmented Regionalism
Viability of Municipal Companies in the Provision of Urban Infrastructure Services
Local service delivery choices in Portugal
Remapping the State
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |