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Metropolitan Governance in America (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Metropolitan Governance in America (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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 institution that possesses the power and
ability to compel compliance. Everything else is just some form of
cooperation, and while cooperation is not trivial, it does not
enable metropolitan areas to address the really tough and
controversial issues that divide rather than unite governments in
those areas. The book examines the principal factors that prevent
the development of either metropolitan government or metropolitan
governance in the USA. Norris looks at several examples where some
form of metropolitan government or governance can be said to exist,
from voluntary cooperation (the weakest) to government (the
strongest). He also examines each type of arrangement for its
ability to address metropolitan-wide problems and whether each type
is or is not in use in the USA. In sum, the book uncovers the
extent of metropolitan government and governance, the possibility
for its existence, what attempts (if any) have been made in the
past, and the problems and issues that have arisen due to the lack
of adequate metropolitan governance.
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