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Intermunicipal Cooperation

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Intermunicipality

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Often municipal borders do not coincide with the appropriate scale for the delivery of services. In these cases, municipalities usually agree to operate jointly. IMC is when several municipalities, in order to obtain mutual benefits, decide to work together on some of the tasks assigned to them (Bel and Warner 2015). The term IMC means a stable collaboration relationship between two or several local governments, endowed with competences and resources.

Introduction

In the last 40 years, devolution and outsourcing have led to a world of “networked government.” In this context an important role has been played by municipalities: the smallest territorial units of public administration and the first tier of local self-government. There is an increasing demand for new ways to provide service to citizens throughout the intermunicipal cooperation (IMC). The intermunicipal cooperation is a recent phenomenon, even if in some countries the first experiences...

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  1. Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, C.da Santa Chiara, 50, 25122, Brescia, Italy

    Davide Giacomini

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Giacomini, D. (2017). Intermunicipal Cooperation. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3241-1

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