Governing the tap : special district governance and the new local politics of water / / Megan Mullin
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| Autore: |
Mullin Megan <1973->
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| Titolo: |
Governing the tap : special district governance and the new local politics of water / / Megan Mullin
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.6/10973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Water utilities - United States |
| Water districts - United States | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Conditional Theory of Specialized Governance -- 3 Private Costs and Public Benefits in Local Public Services -- 4 Distributing the Price of Growth -- 5 Boundaries and the Incentive to Act Alone -- 6 Fighting over Land and Water -- 7 Specialization and Fragmentation in American Local Governance -- Appendix 1 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 3 -- Appendix 2 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 4 -- Appendix 3 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 5 -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Megan Mullin offers analysis of the political consequences of special district governance in drinking water management & offers new insights to the influence of political structures on local policymaking. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Governing the tap |
| ISBN: | 0-262-25839-0 |
| 1-282-69467-7 | |
| 9786612694677 | |
| 0-262-25908-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827451203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
American and comparative environmental policy.