Open AccessTendenser i stat-kommuneforholdet efter kommunalreformen – fokus på økonomiaftaler og sanktionssystemet
Author(s) -
Niels Jørgen Mau Pedersen
Publication year - 2016
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2446-0893
DOI - 10.7146/politik.v19i2.27406
Subject(s) - local government , sanctions , negotiation , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , public administration , service (business) , economics , business , public economics , political science , economic policy , economy , law , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
This article aims at presenting trends in the state-local budget-cooperation system in Denmark, following the local government reform in 2007 and the fiscal rules in the budget law from 2012. The article investigates some of the characteristics of the development from 1980 until 2016. Evidence gives support to the hypothesis that the possibility for the municipalities’ organization to negotiate increasing expenditures has been narrowed, however accompanied by more liberal grant financing. The local government reform seems to have opened a window of opportunity for an elaborated system of collective and especially individual central government sanctions to strengthen the macroeconomic management of service expenditures of local governments. The identified trends in the Danish state-local relations may indicate that the decentralized model of local governments in Denmark is increasingly under pressure. However, the Danish municipal sector is still growing with respect to economic significance.