Abstract
Abstract Inter-municipal cooperation mechanisms have been promoted as flexible tools, reflecting the transition from government to governance in a new network economy and eliminating the need to engage in redrawing clear-cut boundaries in the context of soft spaces with fuzzy boundaries. An evaluation of inter-municipal cooperation in the development of industrial parks and tax revenue redistribution in Israel, from the first 1992 initiative to imposed redistribution in 2014/15, reveals how an initiative ’from below’ has been adopted and encouraged ’from above’, finally used by the central state as a tool of control, to serve its own objectives. It highlights the inherent temptation for top-down imposition, embedded in bottom-up cooperation mechanisms, calling for light-touch regulatory legislation and opting for gently imposed solutions where needed.
Highlights
INTER-MUNICIPAL COOPERATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PARKS AND TAX REDISTRIBUTION: THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
In Israel, for example, fire-fighting municipal unions were a remarkable example for failed partnerships that lacked effective regulation by either central or local government
Inter-municipal cooperation can be practically imposed on local authorities, as was the case with Israel’s fire-fighting municipal unions, and is prone to being ’nationalised’ by upper-level governments
Summary
INTER-MUNICIPAL COOPERATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PARKS AND TAX REDISTRIBUTION: THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS. An evaluation of inter-municipal cooperation in the development of industrial parks and tax revenue redistribution in Israel, from the first 1992 initiative to imposed redistribution in 2014/15, reveals how an initiative ’from below’ has been adopted and encouraged ’from above’, used by the central state as a tool of control, to serve its own objectives.
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