Environmental cooperation among Swedish local governments
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Public Administration
- Vol. 17 (10) , 1733-1766
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01900699408524963
Abstract
Recent contributions to the literature on collective action towards common pool resources (CPR) hold that for such action to become institutionalized among the principals sharing the CPR, there must develop “trust and a sense of community.” Using data on existing environmental cooperation among Swedish municipalities, as well as data from a 1991 survey of Chief Environmental Inspectors in those municipalities, this article analyzes whether the content, intensity and patterns of the cooperation and contacts across municipal borders do in fact contribute to such a development. Using the results of this analysis, the article ends with a discussion of the odds for a supply of CPR regimes across municipal boundaries in Sweden.Keywords
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