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 …

In this chapter I make the case for why we should save local government. Following this I
discuss a recent consulting engagement for a beautiful community that motivated me to go …

Local government amalgamations, mostly aimed at improving financial sustainability, remain
a strongly contested public policy option. Proponents of amalgamation tend to emphasise …

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

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 …

The fiscal behavior of local governments has gained additional attention from academia and
policymakers due to decentralization reforms transferring power from central to lower levels …

The article is devoted to the reform of local self-government and territorial organisation of
power in Ukraine, which took place in 2014–2020, combining three important tasks …

This present research brings into focus the figure of the prefect and wojewód seen at the
crossroads between career public servants representing the interests of the Government …

Attempts to create consolidated city-county governments have persisted in recent decades,
with many local government reformers touting this type of organizational change as a …

IMPACT Little is known about the effect of budget inaccuracy on technical efficiency and
financial resilience. To remedy this gap, we employed a six-year panel of data to conduct …