Drivers and barriers of intermunicipal cooperation in local service delivery

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dc.contributor.authorMikušová Meričková, Beáta
dc.contributor.authorJakuš Muthová, Nikoleta
dc.contributor.authorNemec, Juraj
dc.contributor.authorPlaček, Michal
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-24T07:01:27Z
dc.date.available2026-04-24T07:01:27Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.descriptionIn: Humanities and social sciences communications. Londýn : Springer Nature, 2026. ISSN 2662-9992. Vol. 13, no. 1 (2026), pp. 1-10.
dc.description.abstractSlovakia, like several other countries, has a highly fragmented system of local self-government. According to theoretical expectations, small municipalities with only a few hundred inhabitants often lack sufficient internal capacity to deliver local public services within their responsibilities (in-house production), especially when the services are complex and require specialised expertise. In cases when externalising service delivery (contracting out) fails, intermunicipal cooperation becomes a logical solution. Existing data suggest that intermunicipal cooperation may represent the lowest-cost delivery method for certain local public services. The goal of this paper is to identify the drivers and barriers of IMC in local public service delivery in Slovakia. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey and are used to document the extent to which intermunicipal cooperation is utilised, to compare associated costs, and to identify the drivers, barriers, and key benefits of intermunicipal cooperation in service delivery. Our findings suggest that economic and political-administrative barriers have a more substantial influence on intermunicipal cooperation decisions than legal-institutional constraints. While municipalities operate under similar external legal and administrative frameworks, it is their internal capacity, local political culture, and transaction cost-related considerations that most significantly distinguish cooperating from non-cooperating municipalities.
dc.description.sponsorshipVEGA 1/0003/24 Medziobecná spolupráca v zabezpečovaní miestnych verejných služieb
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-06367-6
dc.identifier.issn2662-9992
dc.identifier.urihttps://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/1415
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Nature : Londýn
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0. International
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectobce
dc.subjectobec
dc.subjectmunicipalities
dc.subjectmedziobecná spolupráca
dc.subjectintermunicipal cooperation
dc.subjectmiestne služby
dc.titleDrivers and barriers of intermunicipal cooperation in local service delivery
dc.typeArticle
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article

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