Endangered European Municipalities: A Systematic Outline of the Problem and Its Political Impact

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=bpjPFp6c7a" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=bpjPFp6c7a</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pce-2019-0016" target="_blank" >10.2478/pce-2019-0016</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Endangered European Municipalities: A Systematic Outline of the Problem and Its Political Impact

Original language description

Based on experience from the Czech Republic with municipalities that fail to perform their local government functions (due to their critical indebtedness), the paper seeks to clarify in what other European countries the municipalities might face existential problems. It can be assumed that critical indebtedness is not the only possible threat that endangers European communities. For this reason, one of the aims of the paper is to identify other possible threats to municipalities and introduce their specific examples. Among other things, the paper attempts to initiate a scholarly discussion and to bring the phenomenon of endangered municipalities closer to political science. The paper draws on qualitative methodology and on an extensive content analysis; it identifies possible threats that may in the extreme case lead to the extinction of European municipalities. When gaining data on specific cases of endangered municipalities in Europe, the method applied was snowball sampling, used by researchers to identify potential subjects in the studies where subjects are hard to locate. The main conclusions of the paper include the identification of five possible threats to European municipalities, which are divided into two groups - rather common threats and less common threats. In case of identified threats, it describes where the endangered municipalities can be found or where the threats are impending. At the same time, groups of municipalities potentially most threatened by individual threats are introduced. The paper also deals with possible political impacts of individual threats. It draws on documented empirical examples based on which possible model situations that may arise are introduced. Based on the conducted analysis and experience from specific endangered municipalities, the paper proposes to use six general terms that outline the general endangerment. Using these terms, the paper Primary Systematization outlines eight possible variants of the course of municipal endangerment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politics in Central Europe

ISSN

1801-3422

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

38

Pages from-to

219-256

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85074734387