Bel, Germa;
Bischoff, Ivo;
Blaka, Sara;
Casula, Mattia;
Lysek, Jakub;
Swianiewicz, Pawel;
Tavares, Antonio F;
(2023)
Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European economic area countries.
Local Government Studies
, 49
(2)
pp. 422-445.
10.1080/03003930.2022.2041416.
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Abstract
Cooperation in the delivery of public services is generally framed as desirable, but it is often hindered by serious collective action problems. The article compares inter-municipal cooperation in seven countries with different institutional settings. It investigates the rules of governance characterising these diverse institutional settings and assesses how they deal with the multiple principal problem. The authors find that in almost all cases, all participating municipalities are represented on the supervisory board of the cooperative entity. In contrast, in other less frequent case cooperation is frequently managed through a different tier of local government, thus circumventing the multiple principal problem affecting inter-municipal arrangements in the other countries.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European economic area countries |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03003930.2022.2041416 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2041416 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Inter-municipal cooperation, local government, multiple principal problem, comparative, Europe |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217685 |
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