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The Regional Governing Of Metropolitan America (Paperback)
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The Regional Governing Of Metropolitan America (Paperback)
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The book explores the regional governing of metropolitan America in
a comprehensive and systematic fashion. It reviews the financial
system of state and local government at the broadest possible
level--the national level--and explores the relationships between
the federal government, the 50 state governments, and the 86,000
local governments that constitute the United States system. It
assesses and identifies the fundamentally different purposes,
organizational designs, and powers of the several forms and types
of local government--counties, municipalities (both cities and
towns), and special districts.Although defined for statistical
purposes by the federal government, metropolitan areas can be used
to begin to understand how metropolitan regions in the United
States are responding to the governance needs of their areas. The
book compares and contrasts variations in the governing structures
of metropolitan systems in the United States. It introduces the
Metropolitan Power Diffusion Index (MPDI), a scale that measures
the distribution of local government power for each metropolitan
area in the United States. The scale also is used to assess changes
in the diffusion of power over the later quarter of the 20th
century. The book overviews the classic debate that has raged for
the last 50 years over how metropolitan areas in the United States
ought to be organized. One view, which I call the "region as
organic whole," sees the metropolitan region as formally organized
to explicitly serve the purposes of the region as it competes with
other metropolitan regions throughout the world in pursuit of
economic development. The second view, which I call the
"polycentric region," views the metropolitan region as a diverse
set of personal choices in which citizens choose to reside in
places that match their personal preferences. Global
competitiveness results from creating an environment that
encourages private enterprise and entrepreneurship. The book
explores, in detail, cooperative strategies that have been
developed to govern the metropolitan areas of the United States. It
identifies and presents four types of approaches. Those types are:
coordinating regionalism; administrative regionalism; fiscal
regionalism; and structural regionalism. Each of these strategies
can be found to one degree or another in each of the metropolitan
regions in the United States. Finally, the book explores problems
or issues that arise as a result of the structuring of government
systems in metropolitan areas. It pays particular attention to the
issues of regional economic performance, racial segregation and
fiscal equity between local government jurisdictions.
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