Local Government Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1 (2018)

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Special issue on privatization, contracting-out and inter-municipal cooperation: new developments in local public service delivery

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If territorial fragmentation is a problem, is amalgamation a solution? – Ten years later
Pawel Swianiewicz
Pages: 1-10
Published online: 08 Dec 2017
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Privatisation, contracting-out and inter-municipal cooperation: new developments in local public service delivery
Germà Bel & Raymond Gradus
Pages: 11-21
Published online: 23 Nov 2017
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Inter-municipal cooperation in the case of spillovers: evidence from Western German municipalities
Christian Bergholz
Pages: 22-43
Published online: 16 Nov 2017
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Can alternative service delivery save cities after the Great Recession? Barriers to privatisation and cooperation
Yunji Kim
Pages: 44-63
Published online: 01 Nov 2017
AbstractforCan alternative service delivery save cities after the Great Recession? Barriers to privatisation and cooperation | Full Text | References | PDF (1.3 MB)
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Contracting out local road and park services: economic effects and their strategic, contractual and competitive conditions
Andrej Christian Lindholst, Ole Helby Petersen & Kurt Houlberg
Pages: 64-85
Published online: 04 Nov 2017
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The effects of market concentration on costs of local public services: empirical evidence from Dutch waste collection
Raymond Gradus, Martijn Schoute & Elbert Dijkgraaf
Pages: 86-104
Published online: 26 Sep 2017
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Internal factors of intermunicipal cooperation: what matters most and why?
Jana Soukopová & Gabriela Vaceková
Pages: 105-126
Published online: 01 Nov 2017
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Intermunicipal cooperation, public spending and service levels
Maarten A. Allers & J.A. de Greef
Pages: 127-150
Published online: 25 Sep 2017
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Does intermunicipal cooperation increase efficiency? A conditional metafrontier approach for the Hessian wastewater sector
Frédéric Blaeschke & Peter Haug
Pages: 151-171
Published online: 30 Oct 2017
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Correction
Erratum
Page: 1
Published online: 08 Apr 2016
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Corrigendum
Page: 1
Published online: 29 Jan 2018
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