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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797491303321

Autore

Norris Donald F.

Titolo

Metropolitan governance in America / / Donald F. Norris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-09694-0

1-315-59513-3

1-317-09693-2

1-4094-2193-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

320.8/50973

Soggetti

Metropolitan government - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The metropolitan reform school -- Public choice theory -- The new regionalism -- Metropolitan governance survey -- A look at the evidence -- Conclusion -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Metropolitan government and metropolitan governance have been ongoing issues for more than sixty years in the United States. Based on an extensive survey and a review of existing literature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of these debates.  It discusses how the centrifugal forces in local government, and in particular local government autonomy, have produced a highly fragmented governmental landscape throughout America. It argues that in order for 'governance' to occur in metropolitan areas (or anywhere else, for that matter), there has to be some form of an actual governmental ins