Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe

1. Motives for Revisiting Inter-municipal Cooperation
Filipe Teles, Pawel Swianiewicz

Part I. Drivers, Democracy and Delivery

2. Inter-municipal Cooperation and Austerity Policies: Obstacles or Opportunities?
Ringa Raudla, António F. Tavares

3. Actors in Inter-municipal Cooperation
Pawel Swianiewicz

4. A Borrowed Mandate? Democratic Legitimacy of Inter-municipal Entities: A Comparative Analysis
Adam Gendźwiłł, Marta Lackowska

5. Striving for Local Governance Capacity in Portugal and Spain
Patrícia Silva, Esther Pano Puey

6. Reasons for Inter-municipal Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis of Finland, Iceland and Norway
Grétar Thór Eythórsson, Pekka Kettunen, Jan Erling Klausen, Siv Sandberg

Part II. Cooperation in Europe

7. Inter-municipal Cooperation in France: A Continuous Reform, New Trends
Robert Hertzog

8. Inter-municipal Cooperation in the Netherlands
Pieter-Jan Klok, Marcel Boogers, Bas Denters, Maurits Sanders

9. Inter-municipal Cooperation in Switzerland
Reto Steiner, Claire Kaiser

10. Traditions, Problems and Challenges of Inter-municipal Cooperation in the German Federal State of Brandenburg
Jochen Franzke

11. Bigger and Stronger Together: How Icelandic Municipalities Solve Their Lack of Capacity and Scale Economy
Grétar Thór Eythórsson

12. Inter-local Financial Transfers as a Measure of Cooperation in Poland
Julita Łukomska, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska

13. Inter-municipal Cooperation in Slovenia: An Intermediate Step Towards Regionalisation
Irena Bačlija-Brajnik

14. Layer upon Layer: The Position of Inter-municipal Cooperation in the Spanish Quasi-Federal System—The Case of Catalonia
Esther Pano Puey, Lluis Medir Tejado, Carla Puiggròs Mussons, Jaume Magre Ferran

Part III. Success and Failure: Case Studies

15. The Rise and Fall of the Union: A Case in Poland
Paweł Swianiewicz, Adam Gendźwiłł

16. The Architecture of a Complex System: The Oradea Metropolitan Area in Romania
Cristina Stănuș

17. Korça Waste Management and the Territorial Reform in Albania
Alba Dakoli Wilson

18. Mapping the Success: Inter-municipal Cooperation in Two Czech Micro-regions
Jakub Lysek, Pavel Šaradín

19. Can Tiny Municipalities Survive Through Extensive IMC Arrangements? The Case of Iceland
Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir

Part IV. Conclusion

20. Inter-municipal Cooperation Diversity, Evolution and Future Research Agenda
Pawel Swianiewicz, Filipe Teles

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Public Policy, Governance and Government, Public Administration