Author: Joseph F. (Joseph Francis) ZimmermanPublisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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The Politics of Interlocal Cooperation
Author: Joseph F. (Joseph Francis) ZimmermanPublisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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The Risk of Regional Governance
Author: Thomas SkuzinskiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315304023
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems. How do these local officials think? Why do they only sometimes cooperate? What kind of governance do they choose in the face of persistent problems? The Risk of Regional Governance offers a new perspective on these questions. Drawing on theory from sociology and anthropology, it argues that many of the most important cooperative decisions local officials make—those about land use planning and regulation—are driven by heuristic, biased reasoning driven by cultural values. The Risk of Regional Governance builds a sociocultural collective action framework, and supports it with rich survey and interview data from hundreds of local elected officials serving in the suburbs of Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is a story of the Rust Belt, of how local officials think about their community and the region, and—most importantly—of how we might craft policies that can overcome biases against regional governance.
Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe
Author: Filipe TelesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319628194
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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This book sheds light on the central complexities of municipal cooperation and examines the dynamics, experiences and drivers of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in Europe. Particular attention is given to the features of governance arrangements and institutions created to generate and maintain collaborative settings between different local governments in a particular territory. The thematically grouped case studies presented here address the dearth of comprehensive and comparative analyses in recent scholarship. The authors provide fresh insights into the rise of inter-municipal cooperation and its evolution during a period of financial crisis and European Union enlargement. This includes critical examinations of the impact of austerity policies, the behavior and perceptions of key actors; and under-explored new member states. Crucially, this work goes beyond the comparison of institutional forms of IMC to address why the phenomenon so widespread and questions whether it is successful, manageable and democratic. This work which presents the most recent and innovative research on inter-local collaborative arrangements will appeal to practitioners as well as scholars of local government, public economy, public administration and policy.
From Neighbors to Partners
Author: Meghan E. RubadoPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 110
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This project investigates the question of why local governments cooperate with one another for service provision and coordinated policies. It proposes that the selection of interlocal cooperation among local leaders in the Unites States can be best understood as a diffusion process by which local elites learn from the cooperative experiments of neighboring jurisdictions and reproduce them in order to realize similar gains when it makes sense to do so. This process, I argue, is driven by the mechanisms of learning, development of networks of trust, and interlocal competition. The project presents theory, methods, and results in three manuscripts. The first uses a newly constructed longitudinal dataset of financial transfers by local governments to show that localities are more likely to cooperate when larger shares of their neighbors were cooperating in the past. This process is amplified in regions with more intense interlocal competition. The second manuscript demonstrates that the diffusion of cooperation is most intense within particular types of local service provision, namely those that involve capital-intensive and system-maintenance functions of government, such as highways, sewers, and water delivery. Finally, the third paper presents results from an original, national survey of mayors and councilors that involved embedded experiments to tease out the hypothesized mechanisms of diffusion. Findings provide strong support for the role of development of trust and learning in the spread of interlocal cooperation.
Cooperation and Conflict between State and Local Government
Author: Russell L. HansonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538139332
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book introduces students to the complex landscape of state-local intergovernmental relations today. Each chapter illustrates conflict and cooperation for policy problems including the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental regulation, marijuana regulation, and government management capacity. The contributors, leading experts in the field, help students enhance their understanding of the importance of state-local relations in the U.S. federal system, argue for better analysis of the consequences of state-local relations for the quality of policy outcomes, and introduce them to public service career opportunities in state and local government.
A Selected Bibliography on Interlocal Governmental Cooperation
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Category : Cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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This bibliography is part of a study of cooperation among local governments in rural areas. Information about materials on this topic has not previously been readily available. Because agricultural areas may benefit from experience with interlocal cooperation in urban areas, the bibliography includes materials reporting such experience. Thus, it also serves as a source of information for those concerned with problems of general local government.
Interlocal Governmental Cooperation
Author: John Edgar StonerPublisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Interlocal Relations in Indiana Counties, Cities, and Towns
Author: Edgar Clarence LeducPublisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics
Author: Karen MossbergerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199709939
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 697
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies. The editors are all recognized experts, and are well connected to the leading scholars in urban politics. The handbook covers the major themes that animate the subfield: the politics of space and place; power and governance; urban policy; urban social organization; citizenship and democratic governance; representation and institutions; approaches and methodology; and the future of urban politics. Given the caliber of the editors and proposed contributors, the volume sets the intellectual agenda for years to come.
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