In the last two years comprehensive legislative reforms have been passed in France which aim to change the territorial architecture of the Republic to ensure increased transparency and efficiency in public administration in the long term. The reforms focus on the metropolises, the merging of...

In the last two years comprehensive legislative reforms have been passed in France which aim to change the territorial architecture of the Republic to ensure increased transparency and efficiency in public administration in the long term. The reforms focus on the metropolises, the merging of...

Die starke Reduktion der Gemeinden im Kanton Glarus, die 2006 an der Landsgemeinde beschlossen wurde, hat nur geringfügige finanzielle Auswirkungen gebracht. Hingegen ist die Stimmbeteiligung - ein wichtiger Indikator für die Beziehung der Bevölkerung zum demokratischen politischen Prozess -...

Municipal break-ups are an understudied phenomenon despite the fact that such territorial reforms regularly take place across the globe. This paper estimates how seven voluntary splits of Swedish municipalities affected municipal current costs. To predict what would have happened had the...

In der Diskussion über Gemeindegebietsreformen wir immer wieder mit Skalenerträgen argumentiert: Durch Gemeindezusammenschlüsse könnten Größenvorteile ausgeschöpft werden und es entstünden leistungsfähigere Gebietskörperschaften. Die konsistente Messung dieser Skalenvorteile ist aber...

In Frankreich sind in den vergangenen zwei Jahren umfassende Gesetzesreformen verabschiedet worden, die darauf zielen, die territoriale Architektur der Republik zugunsten von mehr Transparenz und Effizienz der öffentlichen Verwaltung nachhaltig zu verändern. Im Fokus der Reformen stehen die...

In Frankreich sind in den vergangenen zwei Jahren umfassende Gesetzesreformen verabschiedet worden, die darauf zielen, die territoriale Architektur der Republik zugunsten von mehr Transparenz und Effizienz der öffentlichen Verwaltung nachhaltig zu verändern. Im Fokus der Reformen stehen die...

This paper takes a hard look at Idaho annexation law through the lens of a 2011 annexation dispute in Nampa, Idaho. With this context, the paper explores the interests of Idaho municipalities and landowners, asserting that municipalities and landowners have strong interests in annexation while...

How does the partisan composition of an electorate impact the policies adopted by an elected representative? We take advantage of variation in the partisan composition of Congressional districts stemming from Census-initiated redistricting in the 1990's, 2000's, and 2010's. Using this variation,...

How does the partisan composition of an electorate impact the policies adopted by an elected representative? We take advantage of variation in the partisan composition of Congressional districts stemming from Census-initiated redistricting in the 1990's, 2000's, and 2010's. Using this variation,...

This paper investigates the political economy of after merger effects of the large scale municipal amalgamations in the German state of Baden-Württemberg in the early 1970s. By exploiting the huge variance in the amalgamation process in terms of number of participating municipalities,...

This paper investigates the political economy of after merger effects of the large scale municipal amalgamations in the German state of Baden-W¨urttemberg in the early 1970s. By exploiting the huge variance in the amalgamation process in terms of number of participating municipalities,...

This paper investigates the political economy of after merger effects of the large scale municipal amalgamations in the German state of Baden-Württemberg in the early 1970s. By exploiting the huge variance in the amalgamation process in terms of number of participating municipalities,...

Bevölkerungsstand und -wachstum, Geburten und Sterbefälle, Zu- und Abwanderungen sind wichtige Indikatoren für die Beurteilung der demographischen Entwicklung von Städten und Gemeinden. Diese verlieren jedoch ihre Aussagefähigkeit, wenn z. B. infolge einer Gemeindegebietsreform...

This paper focuses on the increase in slack costs due to municipality amalgamation, which is pushed forward in several countries to achieve economies of scale. Employing the stochastic frontier cost function to estimate the inefficiency of local public expenditure due to slack, this study...

The large number of local governments in a sparsely populated country such as Latvia, calls for the consolidation of these local governments, which is what the Government is now attempting to implement. This will require reforms to achieve improvements in local services, to change the basis for...

Similarly to West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, the eastern part of Germany has experienced a still ongoing process of numerous amalgamations among counties, towns and municipalities since the mid-1990s. The evidence in the economic literature is mixed with regard to the claimed expenditure...