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来源

URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW,Vol.55,Issue3,P.887-922

语言

英文

关键字

Mexico; Brazil; metropolitan regions; local governments; intermunicipal cooperation; LOCAL-GOVERNMENT COOPERATION; TRANSACTION COSTS; INTERLOCAL COOPERATION; URBAN GOVERNANCE; PUBLIC-SERVICES; DECENTRALIZATION; COMPETITION; DELIVERY; POLITICS; REFORM

作者单位

[Meza, Oliver D.] Ctr Res & Teaching Econ, Aguascalientes, Mexico. [Jose Grin, Eduardo; Luiz Abrucio, Fernando] Getulio Vargas Fdn, Sao Paulo, Brazil. [Sergio Fernandes, Antonio] Univ Fed Bahia, NPGA EA UFBA, Sch Adm, Postgrad Program Adm, Salvador, BA, Brazil. Meza, OD (reprint author), Ctr Res & Teaching Econ, Publ Adm Div CIDE, Circ Tecnopolo 117, Hacienda Nueva 20313, Aguascalientes, Mexico. E-Mail: oliver.meza@cide.edu

摘要

While Latin America is undergoing a process of metropolitanization, we argue that intermunicipal cooperation (IMC) arrangements may serve as a quality check of the region's metropolitan governance. We also adhere to the notion that IMC in a metropolitan region is affected not only by constitutional variables embedded in federalist arrangements but also in different ways. We test this assumption by building on a series of hypotheses taken from the literature on IMC. We then compare results from Mexico and Brazil, both federal countries with metropolitan regions. In testing the same variables, we observe different outcomes and a different explanatory power of the theoretical premises underlying IMC. We assign these explanatory differences to features of federalism, an understudied variable. We conclude that, while municipal drivers constitute relevant factors in predicting IMC within a metropolitan region, federalist arrangements modify the weight attributed to these factors.