https://metropolitics.org/ Favoriser les débats et confronter les savoirs et les savoir-faire sur la ville, l'architecture et les territoires. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://metropolitics.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH20/siteon0-bf96f.png?1760617828 https://metropolitics.org/ 20 144 https://metropolitics.org/Intercommunality-or-the-broken.html https://metropolitics.org/Intercommunality-or-the-broken.html 2013-01-16T12:05:47Z text/html en Stéphane Cadiou & translated by Oliver Waine governance local councillors intercommunality local democracy territorial reform <p>As a new territorial reform is set to be enacted in France, what lessons can be learned from past reforms? In La Politique confisquée, Fabien Desage and David Guéranger describe a “backdrop of disenchantment” with regard to intermunicipal structures: mayors appear to have monopolised these new “intercommunalities”, with representative democracy seemingly replaced by something more opaque. <br class='autobr' /> In France, intercommunalities – intermunicipal structures covering several communes (municipalities) that</p> - <a href="https://metropolitics.org/-Reviews-.html" rel="directory">Reviews</a> / <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-governance-+.html" rel="tag">governance</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-local-councillors-+.html" rel="tag">local councillors</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-intercommunality-+.html" rel="tag">intercommunality</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-local-democracy-+.html" rel="tag">local democracy</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-territorial-reform-+.html" rel="tag">territorial reform</a>