Inter-municipal Cooperation in the Netherlands

Pieter-Jan Klok; Marcel Boogers; Bas Denters; Maurits Sanders

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62819-6_8

Inter-municipal Cooperation in the Netherlands

Pieter-Jan Klok
, Marcel Boogers
, Bas Denters
, Maurits Sanders

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

7 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

In this chapter, we describe some of the features of the Dutch way of organizing inter-municipal cooperation, using a nation-wide study. The permissive institutional structure provides municipalities with a wide range of organizational structures for cooperation, including both public and private law options. This has resulted in a wide range of almost 800 inter-municipal cooperations and in high variations in both the level and complexity of inter-municipal cooperations for different municipalities. All in all this ‘crazy-quilt’ pattern of cooperation seems to be working quite well, as both democratic quality and performance in terms of perceived benefits and (transaction) costs are for most cases at a satisfactory level.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe
Subtitle of host publication	Institutions and Governance
Editors	Filipe Teles, Pawel Swianiewicz
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	157-171
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-62819-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-62818-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62819-6_8
Publication status	Published - 15 Nov 2017

Publication series

Name	Governance and Public Management
ISSN (Print)	2524-728X
ISSN (Electronic)	2524-7298

Keywords

NLA

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-319-62819-6_8

Cite this

@inbook{d865c2642bf44f3d8721fbbea6478ab6,

title = "Inter-municipal Cooperation in the Netherlands",

abstract = "In this chapter, we describe some of the features of the Dutch way of organizing inter-municipal cooperation, using a nation-wide study. The permissive institutional structure provides municipalities with a wide range of organizational structures for cooperation, including both public and private law options. This has resulted in a wide range of almost 800 inter-municipal cooperations and in high variations in both the level and complexity of inter-municipal cooperations for different municipalities. All in all this {\textquoteleft}crazy-quilt{\textquoteright} pattern of cooperation seems to be working quite well, as both democratic quality and performance in terms of perceived benefits and (transaction) costs are for most cases at a satisfactory level.",

keywords = "NLA",

author = "Pieter-Jan Klok and Marcel Boogers and Bas Denters and Maurits Sanders",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, The Author(s).",

year = "2017",

month = nov,

day = "15",

doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-62819-6\_8",

language = "English",

isbn = "978-3-319-62818-9",

series = "Governance and Public Management",

publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",

pages = "157--171",

editor = "Filipe Teles and Pawel Swianiewicz",

booktitle = "Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe",

address = "United Kingdom",

}

Inter-municipal Cooperation in the Netherlands. / Klok, Pieter-Jan; Boogers, Marcel; Denters, Bas et al.
Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe: Institutions and Governance. ed. / Filipe Teles; Pawel Swianiewicz. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. p. 157-171 (Governance and Public Management).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

TY - CHAP

T1 - Inter-municipal Cooperation in the Netherlands

AU - Klok, Pieter-Jan

AU - Boogers, Marcel

AU - Denters, Bas

AU - Sanders, Maurits

PY - 2017/11/15

Y1 - 2017/11/15

N2 - In this chapter, we describe some of the features of the Dutch way of organizing inter-municipal cooperation, using a nation-wide study. The permissive institutional structure provides municipalities with a wide range of organizational structures for cooperation, including both public and private law options. This has resulted in a wide range of almost 800 inter-municipal cooperations and in high variations in both the level and complexity of inter-municipal cooperations for different municipalities. All in all this ‘crazy-quilt’ pattern of cooperation seems to be working quite well, as both democratic quality and performance in terms of perceived benefits and (transaction) costs are for most cases at a satisfactory level.

AB - In this chapter, we describe some of the features of the Dutch way of organizing inter-municipal cooperation, using a nation-wide study. The permissive institutional structure provides municipalities with a wide range of organizational structures for cooperation, including both public and private law options. This has resulted in a wide range of almost 800 inter-municipal cooperations and in high variations in both the level and complexity of inter-municipal cooperations for different municipalities. All in all this ‘crazy-quilt’ pattern of cooperation seems to be working quite well, as both democratic quality and performance in terms of perceived benefits and (transaction) costs are for most cases at a satisfactory level.

KW - NLA

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85052083866

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-62819-6_8

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-62819-6_8

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85052083866

SN - 978-3-319-62818-9

T3 - Governance and Public Management

SP - 157

EP - 171

BT - Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe

A2 - Teles, Filipe

A2 - Swianiewicz, Pawel

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

ER -

Inter-municipal Cooperation in the Netherlands

Abstract

Publication series

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Intermunicipal Cooperation in the Netherlands: The Costs and the Effectiveness of Polycentric Regional Governance

Cite this