The impact of municipal territorial reforms on the economic performance of local governments. A systematic review of quasi-experimental studies

Gendźwiłł, Adam; Kurniewicz, Anna; Swianiewicz, Paweł

doi:10.1080/13562576.2020.1747420

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“…However, the most comprehensive meta-analyses were presented by Swianiewicz et al [20], Tavares [21], Schwab at al. [22], Blum-Hansen et al [23], and Gendźwiłł et al [24]. The first of these studies thoroughly diagnose consolidation reforms in European countries and presents the results of studies on their consequences.…”

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Globalization or glocalization - global trends, local effects of territorial reforms

Kachniarz

2021

SHS Web of Conf.

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Research background: The globalization processes are not only of an economic and cultural nature - but they also unify trends in the organization and management of administration, including at the local level. The idea of economization of administration was promoted in the broad stream of reforms described as New Public Management. It was often expressed as a postulate of the territorial reorganization of local governments. The reforms of these structures, motivated by the economies of scale, were to lead to the elimination of their allegedly too fragmented nature. Purpose of the article: The questions about the global scale and effectiveness of these reforms resulted in the objectives of the study, which were formulated as follows: - identification of the scope and scale of territorial reforms and assessment of their global character; - evaluation of the real impact of these reforms in terms of economies of scale. Methods: Methodologically, the work is the critical meta-analysis of the research results of consolidation reforms from many countries of the world. Findings & Value added: The results lead to the conclusion that consolidation is a global trend. However, they do not unequivocally confirm the successes in achieving economies of scale in the provision of public services. The added value of this research is to draw attention to the fact that uncritical implementation of global trends does not automatically bring the assumed effects. It is necessary to apply in practice glocalization, i.e. critical adaptation of global solutions to local institutional conditions.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Globalization or glocalization - global trends, local effects of territorial reforms

Kachniarz

2021

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“…There are two studies (Erlingsson 2005;Brink 2004) from Sweden, and Canadian (Tanguay & Wihry 2008) and Australian (Tanguay & Wihry 2008) studies. Regarding the region of post-communist Europe, most of the studies are focused on Poland (see Gendźwiłł et al 2020;Swianiewicz et al 2018). The literature divides the general factors connected to splits or that increase the likelihood of municipal secession into (1) cultural factors, (2) economic factors, and (3) political ones.…”

Section: Why Do Municipalities Split? Theory and The Czech Contextmentioning

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“…Second, the opposite situation might also theoretically occur when the richer centre wishes to separate from its poor parts (e.g. Gendźwiłł et al 2020).…”

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Local Identity or Economic Benefits? The Municipal Splits in the Czech Republic

Lysek

2021

Miscellanea Geographica

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This paper studies 38 splits that occurred between 1995 and 2020 in the Czech Republic. Although the initial splits, that took place during the time of democratic transition, were driven by perceived local identity and the historical memory of being a former independent municipality, the splits after 1995 were predominantly driven by economic factors, be it objective underinvestment and a perceived grievance that the mother municipality was not taking care of its fringe parts. In all cases, the mother municipality had failed to communicate with the initiator of a referendum. However, if the central municipality invested in its parts and its political leaders communicated with its citizens, the municipality did not lose its part despites the attempts of secessionist leaders.

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“…There are several recent publications on those issues, having character of meta-analysis of individual empirical studies, allowing to draw general conclusions (see e.g. [4], [5], [7], [16]). But all of those studies almost entirely over-look the fact that the merger reforms are not the only type of municipal boundary changes.…”

Section: Municipal Boundary Reforms In Europe 1998-2018mentioning

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“…This type of territorial changes has been almost a tabula rasa for academic empirical research in social sciences. And extensive review of international academic journals allowed to identify several hundred empirical studies of amalgamation reforms and their consequences, but only four studies of municipal splits 1 [7]. Why municipal divorces are so much underresearched comparing to municipal amalgamations?…”

Section: Municipal Boundary Reforms In Europe 1998-2018mentioning

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Municipal Divorces – The Under Researched Toipic of Territorial Reforms in Europe

Swianiewicz¹

2019

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Territorial-administrative organization belongs to the most important and highly debated topics of political geography. The paper focuses on boundary changes on a municipal level. Territorial amalgamation reforms have attracted a lot of attention of scholars from different disciplines, recently resulting also in meta-analyses of studies of impacts of those reforms. But the opposite process -of territorial fragmentation (splits or "divorces" of municipalities) has not attracted sufficient attention of academic community. And in the practice of Central and Eastern Europe this type of reforms has been at least equally frequent and equally important as territorial consolidation reforms. Immediately after 1989/1990 turn-over we could note massive territorial fragmentation in several countries of former Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and some others. But also more recently, within last 20 years there have been several cases of "municipal divorces". The paper provides inventory and draws general picture of such changes in 7 countries of the region () and discusses both factors beyond the divorce initiatives as well as possible consequences for local democracy and local public service provision.

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The impact of municipal territorial reforms on the economic performance of local governments. A systematic review of quasi-experimental studies

Cited by 42 publications

References 57 publications

Globalization or glocalization - global trends, local effects of territorial reforms

Globalization or glocalization - global trends, local effects of territorial reforms

Local Identity or Economic Benefits? The Municipal Splits in the Czech Republic

Municipal Divorces – The Under Researched Toipic of Territorial Reforms in Europe

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