Inter-Municipal Cooperation in the Development of Industrial Parks and Tax Redistribution: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions

• Authors: Eran Razin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Inter-municipal cooperation mechanisms have been promoted as flexible tools, reflecting the transition from government to governance in a new network economy and eliminating the need to engage in redrawing clear-cut boundaries in the context of soft spaces with fuzzy boundaries. An evaluation of inter-municipal cooperation in the development of industrial parks and tax revenue redistribution in Israel, from the first 1992 initiative to imposed redistribution in 2014/15, reveals how an initiative ’from below’ has been adopted and encouraged ’from above’, finally used by the central state as a tool of control, to serve its own objectives. It highlights the inherent temptation for top-down imposition, embedded in bottom-up cooperation mechanisms, calling for light-touch regulatory legislation and opting for gently imposed solutions where needed.

Keywords

EN

inter-municipal cooperation; government; governance; industrial parks; tax redistribution; Israel

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Quaestiones Geographicae
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 83-90

Dates

published

2016-06-15

Contributors

author

Eran Razin

• Department of Geography, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/quageo-2016-0017