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While the concept of the cooperative state is generally connected to German federalism, it may also be used to study intergovernmental relations in non-federal systems of governance. As such it reveals how actual relative subsystem autonomy within a unitary state might be as large – or as small – as within a federal structure. On the basis of a “constitutional” analysis of the intergovernmental system, the principles of self-government and collaborative decentralisation in the Dutch context are outlined. Next, a comparative framework depicting institutional contexts of intergovernmental systems is developed. This framework directs attention to the horizontal or vertical nature of intergovernmental relations, the degree of administrative and political interwovenness, and the forms of intergovernmental management applied. Following, a comparative overview of institutional developments within five unitary state systems – England, Denmark, Sweden, France and the Netherlands – is presented. The concept of the cooperative state is used to analyse the quest for local government autonomy and assess ongoing developments in these unitary states. The analysis suggests that in the debate on local government autonomy, one should take into account the different institutional contexts of local governments. Collaborative decentralisation is advocated to be a structural way to secure the role of local government in the emerging European systems of multi-level governance.

Constituting the Cooperative State: Strategies for Collaborative Decentralisation within Unitary States