Territorial Reform of Local Government: Evaluation Criteria Underpinning Decisions and Debate in Flanders

Peuter, Bart De; Pattyn, Valérie; Wayenberg, Ellen

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“…This alienation of the local population is frequently linked to the importance of local identities. Many studies mention the feared loss of local identities as an obstacle hindering amalgamation (Baldersheim and Rose 2010;Mecking 2012;van Assche 2005;De Peuter, Pattyn, and Wayenberg 2011;Boudreau and Keil 2001;Tomàs 2012;Spicer 2012;Fortin and Bédard 2003;Lightbody 1999;Keil 2000Keil , 2002Hulst and van Montfort 2007;Alexander 2013;Rausch 2012;Hanes 2015;Aulich, Sansom, and McKinlay 2014). These studies primarily discuss this as the feared loss of local traditions and culture.…”

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Territorial changes and changing identities: how spatial identities are used in the up-scaling of local government in the Netherlands

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2016

Local Government Studies

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This article analyses the use of local identities by local communities in two Dutch municipalities. This research was commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior to better understand the role of local identities in municipal amalgamations. This article develops a conceptual framework based on the distinction between a primary identity based on the widely recognised dominant characteristics of the local community, and a secondary identity based on how communities within a municipality have learned over time to deal with these different primary local identities. During an amalgamation, this secondary identity disappears with the old municipality.

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Territorial changes and changing identities: how spatial identities are used in the up-scaling of local government in the Netherlands

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Local Government Studies

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“…According to De Peuter et al . (), Flanders had over 150 new regions. In Germany “a growing number of ‘alternative’ policy specific ‘regions of convenience’, together with their ‘new’, issue specific regional stakeholders, have emerged outside the formal straightjacket”.…”

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Making News: Newspapers and the Institutionalisation of New Regions

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2016

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Regions have gained importance over the last decades. Old regions have picked up momentum while novel forms of municipal co-operation and multi-level governance have generated new regions. This paper examines the extent to which some new regions in the Netherlands have become familiar to the population, based on evidence from an analysis of newspaper articles. The study focused on the reports about several old and new regions within the borders of the traditional region of Noord-Brabant, a Dutch province with a well-established identity. In the dynamic constellation of Noord-Brabant, news reports hinted at the institutionalisation of some of the new regions that have become meaningful places outside the administrative context in which they were originally created. The institutionalisation of some new regions did not result in a de-institutionalisation of older regions in the same area but in a more complex layering of the identities of these regions with respect to each other.

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“…There have been a number of studies describing the amalgamation process or analyzing the effects (mostly financial) in specific countries (e.g., Dollery et al 2004;Reingewertz 2012;Kjaer et al 2010;Kushner and Siegel 2005). Comparative explanatory studies between countries, however, remain scarce and fragmented (exceptions : Steiner 2003;Brundgaard and Vrangbaek 2007;De Peuter et al 2011). This is remarkable in light of the important and growing role of local governments in delivering goods, services, and democratic values to citizens.…”

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Explaining Trajectories of Municipal Amalgamations: A Case Comparison of the Netherlands and Flanders

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Wayenberg

2016

Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis

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Word count (text + table + references) = 5.345 INTRODUCTIONBased on the rationale of increasing administrative power and obtaining efficiency through economies of scale, municipal upscaling in Western European states has intensified in recent years. Despite this general tendency the specific trajectories of municipal amalgamations vary strongly between countries. Sometimes local government re-scaling evolves incrementally, sometimes it occurs in a more drastic way, or not at all. So far these differences in trajectories have not been statisfactorily explained. There have been a number of studies describing the amalgamation process or analyzing the effects (mostly financial) in specific countries (e.g., Dollery et al. 2004;Reingewertz 2012;Kjaer et al. 2010;Kushner and Siegel 2005). Comparative explanatory studies between countries, however, ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH DESIGNWe took a predominantly inductive approach, using a wide analytical framework as starting point.The model proposed by Pollitt and Bouckaert (2004) provides a general insight into factors influencing public management reform. It includes (1) socio-economic forces, such as economic forces, socio-economic policies, and socio-demographic change; (2) the political system, including deep-structural features of the system, as well as dynamic elements such as new management ideas, pressures from citizens, and party political ideas; (3) elite decision making on what is desirable and feasible; (4) change events, such as scandals or disasters; and (5) the administrative system, covering content of reforms, implementation, and results.

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Territorial Reform of Local Government: Evaluation Criteria Underpinning Decisions and Debate in Flanders

Cited by 15 publications

References 1 publication

Territorial changes and changing identities: how spatial identities are used in the up-scaling of local government in the Netherlands

Territorial changes and changing identities: how spatial identities are used in the up-scaling of local government in the Netherlands

Making News: Newspapers and the Institutionalisation of New Regions

Explaining Trajectories of Municipal Amalgamations: A Case Comparison of the Netherlands and Flanders

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