Una aproximación a los modelos de intermunicipalidad

Abstract

While globalization increases the market's reference space, the political découpage of the local and regional public bodies has not changed much in the last century. This generates important "adjustment" problems that affect the economic dimension of collective goods and services. The purely economic approximation quickly proposes a "rational" solution in the traditional Paretian sense, giving an optimal dimension to local bodies. Three circles of potential partners are noted: decision-makers; payers; beneficiaries. Ideally they should agree. The problem would be solved if local public finance worked as a market economy, but this is not the case. Given the lack of effective framing, different parameters allow to evaluate each possible situation between decision-makers, payers and beneficiaries: economies of scale, overflow effects, homogeneous preferences, administrative and management costs. Each of these parameters should be evaluated and, there isn't an unique solution. There are multiple results that allow different choices. The economic agent faces a problem that not only has an economic dimension. He also examines the most rational economic behaviour. He can take into account additional costs -or benefits- from organisation, coordination and democratic procedure, prioritising particular forms of collaboration (unique, multiple, connected, non-connected). This allows creating a particular nuance, which is essential in this study: the analysis of the intermunicipality cooperation.