Abstract
Portugal presents itself as a particularly interesting example of the challenges of inter-municipal cooperation. Despite the absence of a strong tradition of this form of collaboration between local authorities, which was furthered by a pattern of competition between municipalities, more recent cooperative approaches, which emerged as a consequence of Europeanisation, reveal intensification in voluntary collaboration. Portuguese local government and its recent reform present some of the dimensions this book has addressed as relevant for the analysis of inter-municipal cooperation, particularly its drivers, forms and alternative strategies. This chapter provides a picture of local and inter-municipal governance in Portugal as an illustration of the main characteristics of collaborative arrangements as well as of the research gaps it still faces.
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