METROPOLITAN AREAS IN ROMANIA – THE SHIFT FROM FORCED COOPERATION TO COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE. A CASE STUDY

Calin E. Hintea, Bogdana Neamtu and Viorel Stanica
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Calin E. Hintea: Department of Public Administration and Management, Babes Bolyai University, Romania
Bogdana Neamtu: Department of Public Administration and Management, Babes Bolyai University, Romania
Viorel Stanica: Department of Public Administration and Management, Babes Bolyai University, Romania

No 3, TAD 14 The disciplines and the study of Public Administration: Transatlantic perspectives in the margin of the 14th Administration and Public Management International Conference, Bucharest, June 6-18 2018 from Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract: The chapter addresses the issues of collaborative governance in the context of the metropolitan areas from Romania. As secondary cities are becoming the engines of the national economy, there is a growing interest in how these cities can function better, develop even further, and moreover, determine spillover effects in terms of economic growth, better service delivery, and increased quality of life into the surrounding rural communities. The central government has mandated a type of “mandatory” cooperation in the framework of metropolitan areas attached to the growth poles, as a precondition for receiving European money. However, the communities that are part of these areas are currently searching for ways to move away from this top-down induced cooperation towards more bottom-up collaborative partnerships. Based on the literature review, we developed an analytical model for understanding how one specific metropolitan area, namely the Cluj-Napoca one, functions. The empirical research includes interviews with the mayors of all local communities from the metropolitan area. The results are rather interesting – legal and policy context are currently not very conducing for bottom-up cooperation and some of the drivers which foster cooperation, especially leadership, are emerging but not fully developed yet.

Keywords: collaborative governance; intercommunalities; metropolitan areas; strategic planning; trust. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2019-06
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