Lack of reform or the slow pace of reform in public management is an issue that plagues
Israel, particularly in local government (Beeri & Razin, 2015; Levi et al., 2020; Razin & …

The article discusses municipal boundary changes in Central and Eastern Europe,
concentrating on the heavily under-researched phenomenon of municipal splits. The first …

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of territorial change on the
municipal level across all European countries. Taking a thematic and comparative …

Why are some countries able to go ahead with comprehensive top-down local government
amalgamation reforms, despite the many challenges such a reform entails? So far, we have …

The last 50 years have seen a strong trend of local government consolidation. Municipalities
have been amalgamated in many countries, and this has increased jurisdiction size of the …

The question whether small or large organisations are associated with the best public
service performance has long been a subject of debate in public administration research …

Deteriorating financial sustainability of local governments internationally has resulted in
increased implementation of structural reform programs as a potential solution. However, the …

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There is increasing pressure on local authorities to restructure themselves to meet current
expectations from the public. Multilevel governance has emerged as one method for such …

Local government amalgamations represent a particularly contentious strain of public policy
interventions. One of the reasons for this controversy stems from the lack of an evidence …