In the Netherlands, electronic service delivery has become an important issue in many municipalities. Using the … delivery for all Dutch municipalities, we show that there is a large variety among the municipalities in the extent to which … municipalities. Some trends can be discerned, most notably the strong relationship of e-government adoption with demographic …

This paper analyzes local political cycle in Czech municipalities over the period between 1997 and 2013. We apply the …, municipalities increase capital spending (primarily on infrastructure, housing, leisure activities) and decrease current spending …

("sadovodstva") into regular settlements (municipalities) with all necessary infrustructure 6) development and financing a system of … Metropolitan Area, which includes a number of municipalities, located in Leningrad Oblast. …

government, states and municipalities together offer public, free for all full health coverage. The complexity and territorial …. This legal framework establishes that the municipalities are competent and responsible for providing basic health attention … and under which determinants municipalities' personnel expenses are correlated to increases in health service provision …

The paper analyzes local political cycle in Czech municipalities over the period between 1997 and 2013. We apply the …-estimate the model for spending shares. We have found that the size of municipalities matters, and unsurprisingly, small … municipalities do not increase spending in such an extent as bigger municipalities, though big municipalities tend to have lower …

across the globe. This paper estimates how seven voluntary splits of Swedish municipalities affected municipal current costs … norm minimization. Our results do not support the standard view, that smaller municipalities imply higher per capita costs …. Instead, we find an intriguing heterogeneity: costs increase in some municipalities, are unaffected in others and decrease …

created 11 municipalities between 1994 and 2004. Using territories that sought, but failed to, achieve independence as … controls, we find that schools in newly created municipalities, on average, experienced a standard deviation decline of 0.2 in … classroom teachers and school management teams in newly created municipalities. In contrast, we found that reducing the size of …

-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show that highway access influences local employment outcomes in peripheral municipalities … flows within the periphery, while we find opposing effects on core municipalities. Improved accessibility also gives rise to …