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ISSN: 2450-7733     eISSN: 2300-4096    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/sip.2016.46/2-04
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Issue archive / nr 46/2 2016
FUZJA MIASTA I POWIATU – PRZEGLĄD DOŚWIADCZEŃ MIĘDZYNARODOWYCH
(City-county consolidation – international expiriences review)

Authors: Marian Kachniarz
Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu
Keywords: local government territorial structure reform city-county consolidation
Data publikacji całości:2016
Page range:12 (45-56)
Klasyfikacja JEL: H11 H21 H72
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Abstract

The reforms of local government are part of a trend to increase the efficiency of the public sector. In addition to functional changes, concerning eg. Increasing the flexibility and organizational independence, these reforms often apply to changes in the territorial structure. In the last 30-year wave of units consolidation swept through the world. As a result, motivated by economies of scale trend of increasing the size of local government units, it is the most common method of structural reforms. The article has two goals – the first is the characteristics of a specific category of such actions, involving the merger of the two levels of local government – municipalities (city) and county (county). The second objective is to try to assess such actions through the prism of the results. Article is based on the analysis of research ex-post reports impact of such reforms in many countries of the world. Results of the analysis do not give a definite answer, that consolidation efforts, bring established by reformers effects.
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