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The Reform of Intermunicipal Cooperation: A transition to the French model?
Mudra, Jan ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
Presented dissertation on topic Reform of inter-municipal cooperation: Course to French model? deals with the question, to what extent, does, so far, the most elaborated motion to amendment of the form of inter-municipal cooperation, proposed by Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, follows the model of inter-municipal cooperation in France. From this point of view, the topic of inter-municipal cooperation in the Czech Republic is, as a matter of fact, unexplored phenomenon without existing research and comparative analysis. The objective of the research in my dissertation is to prove, according to definitional standards determined in advance, what particular adjustment in the field of financial, structural and legislative inter-municipal cooperation in France has this motion adopted and, on the contrary, what adjustment it has not and why. The research does not deal with all of the elaborated motions to constituent amendment of the current form of inter-municipal cooperation, but, in particular, with the motion to amendment of the general conception of inter-municipal cooperation in the Czech Republic.
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Intermunicipal Cooperation in the Pilsen Region
Hájek, Ondřej ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
This thesis deals with the inter-municipal cooperation in the Pilsen region. In the theoretical part there is the concept of inter-municipal cooperation defined and the reasons behind the cooperation among the municipalities explained. These include efforts to overcome the fragmented municipal structure, more efficient and cheaper providing of the services and savings. In this thesis there are also the risks and limits of the inter-municipal cooperation mentioned and the attention is paid to the possible democratic deficits. The cooperation of the municipalities is also compared to the amalgamation of municipalities. The next section contains case studies of inter-municipal cooperation in selected European countries. The following section regards the Czech Republic, in which there is the development of municipal structures explored, as well as the legislative basis of the inter-municipal cooperation issues and also the causes that lead to cooperation between municipalities are assessed. After that, the attention is given to the voluntary associations of municipalities and micro-regions in the Pilsen region.
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Effectiveness of Intermunicipal Cooperation in the Provision of Environmental Services in the Waste Management
Křížková, Markéta ; Slavík, Jan (advisor) ; Osersová, Marta (referee)
Municipalities within their jurisdiction must provide their citizens with a range of services which are often very financial demanding for many of them and are a heavy burden on their local budgets. In addition, in this area municipalities are also imposed to a number of conditions and objectives defined by the basic documents for waste management in the Czech Republic. One possible solution to these problems is to provide services through intermunicipal-cooperation. In this thesis there are analyzed the possibilities of using this form of service provision in the area of waste management in the Czech Republic. The first part is an introduction to this topic, defining the fundamental objectives specified in the Waste Management Plan and other official documents, legal conditions for cooperation between municipalities and a summary of foreign experience with the cooperation of municipalities. In the practical part these findings are tested through a questionnaire survey on the real experiences of existing unions in the Czech Republic, which shows that inter-municipal cooperation is not in our circumstances sufficiently and comprehensively utilized; the municipalities leave most of the competencies on themselves. To improve this situation could help more effective state support and change of certain legal conditions.
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Small towns such as peripheral centers of rural areas
LÍSKOVCOVÁ, Vendula
The topic of the thesis is Small towns such as peripheral centers of rural areas. There are analyzed tree sets of issues in the empirical part: Specific characteristics of the small town in the formation and activities of local self-government in Vodňany, involvement of Vodňany to the intermunicipal cooperation, the role of municipalities as a regional center and impact of the reform of the public administration in Vodňany. There are managed to prove specific characteristics in the number of person without political affiliation and unusual post-election coalition. By selected indicators were found that Vodňany fulfills role of peripheral centers and according to the SWOT analysis were found opportunities for future development in the monitored area. The objectives of the reform of local public administration were largely fulfilled in Vodňany.
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Intermunicipal cooperation and its perception among mayors
Klusáček, Petr
Approximately 80 % of municipalities in the Czech Republic have less than 1 000 inhabitants and this fact has negative influence on efficiency of the public administration. The paper deals especially with the issue of the intermunicipal cooperation which is one of the most important issues during the 3rd phase of the current territorial administration reform. The analysis is based on the dates from the own questionnaire survey. In June 2006, 600 Czech mayors were asked what they thought about intermunicipal cooperation and what were their proposals, ideas and opinions.
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