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Comparative Metropolitan Policy - Governing Beyond Local Boundaries in the Imagined Metropolis (Hardcover)
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Comparative Metropolitan Policy - Governing Beyond Local Boundaries in the Imagined Metropolis (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
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How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more
effective than others in managing policies that cross local
jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal
governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient
public transit systems, and to sustain cultural infrastructure in
metropolitan regions. In this era of fragmented authority, local
governments alone rarely possess the capacity to address these
policy issues alone. This book explores the sources and barriers to
cooperation and metropolitan policy making. It combines different
streams of scholarship on regional governance to explain how and
why metropolitan partnerships emerge and flourish in some places
and fail to in others. It systematically tests this theory in the
Frankfurt and Rhein-Neckar regions of Germany and the Toronto and
Waterloo regions in Canada. Discovering that existing theories of
metropolitan collective action based on institutions and
opportunities are inconsistent, the author proposes a new theory of
"civic capital", which argues that civic engagement and leadership
at the regional scale can be important catalysts to metropolitan
cooperation. The extent to which the actors hold a shared image of
the metropolis and engage at that scale strongly influences the
degree to which local authorities will be willing and able to
coordinate policies for the collective development of the region.
Metropolitan Governance and Policy will be of interest to students
and scholars of comparative urban and metropolitan governance and
sociology.
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