Municipal amalgamation reforms have been advocated as ways to improve efficiency,
reduce costs, and enhance capacity in local government service provision. Research on the …

Local government structural reform programs are often based on the purported benefits of
increased scale. We examine this question in relation to the proposed amalgamation …

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 …

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has the potential to make strong contributions to the
formulation of public policy. In particular, DEA can be used to identify the determinants of …

Municipal mergers remain an important instrument of local government policy in numerous
countries, including Australia, despite some concerns surrounding its efficacy. We consider …

Public policy debates are often dominated by economic analysis of aggregate financial
benefit. However, public policy formulated on this basis is frequently regarded as profoundly …

Local government policymakers across the developed world have frequently employed
municipal amalgamation to improve the operation of local councils, and New Zealand is no …

While a substantial theoretical and empirical literature has examined compulsory local
government consolidation, little is known about de-amalgamation after forced mergers …

The twenty-first century has brought to Europe a revival of territorial restructuring reforms.
The focus of this chapter is primarily on the municipal tier, but there are also several cases of …