Territorial Consolidation Reforms in Europe

0342326 - SOÚ 2011 RIV HU eng M - Monography Chapter
Illner, Michal
The Voluntary Union of Municipalities. Bottom-up Territorial Consolidation in the Czech Republic?
Territorial Consolidation Reforms in Europe. Budapest: Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative – Open Society Institute, 2010 - (Swianiewicz, P.), s. 219-235. ISBN 978-963-9719-16-3
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT 2D06006
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z70280505
Keywords : territorial consolidation * unions of municipalities * Czech Republic
Subject RIV: AO - Sociology, Demography

Measures are discussed which were step-by-step applied in the Czech Republic since 1990 to reduce the extreme spontaneous fragmentation of local government, and their impact is evaluated. They included tightening the rules applying to separation of municipalities, facilitating their voluntary amalgamation, support of inter-municipal cooperation and entrusting the execution of some responsibilities to larger municipalities. The effective way turned-out to be the bottom-up voluntary networking of municipalities in the form of Unions of Municipalities.
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