Intermunicipality in the Argentine metropolitan municipalities

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the dynamics of the intermunicipal initiatives that originated in local governments that are part of metropolitan areas in Argentina. Itis part of a global research that contemplated the study of the 255 intermunicipal initiatives of all kinds in the last three decades.

In the country, unlike other Latin American countries, the specificity of the metropolitan phenomenon is not foreseen in the laws. There fore, this arrangement emerges as the only one that would solve the manifest disconnect between the policies implemented, the legal competences and the political-administrative configuration of these territories. The results allow us to observe the small number of initiatives; its development in metropolitan areas of different population size; its concentration in few provinces; the existence of micro regions and mancomunidades in equivalent number; the irstructural weakness; their temporal volatility; their low institutionalization; the participation of cooperating international organizations in their development; and its impacton the public agenda, among others.