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Community, Scale, and Regional Governance - A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume II (Hardcover)
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Community, Scale, and Regional Governance - A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume II (Hardcover)
Series: Transformations In Governance
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This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the
structure of governance above and below the central state. This
book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and
consequences of governance within the state. The book argues that
jurisdictional design is shaped by the functional pressures that
arise from the logic of scale in providing public goods and by the
preferences that people have regarding self-government. The first
has to do with the character of the public goods provided by
government: their scale economies, externalities, and informational
asymmetries. The second has to do with how people conceive and
construct the groups to which they feel themselves belonging. In
this book, the authors demonstrate that scale and community are
principles that can help explain some basic features of governance,
including the growth of multiple tiers over the past six decades,
how jurisdictions are designed, why governance within the state has
become differentiated, and the extent to which regions exert
authority. The authors propose a postfunctionalist theory which
rejects the notion that form follows function, and argue that
whilst functional pressures are enduring, one must engage human
passions regarding self-rule to explain variation in the structures
of rule over time and around the world. Transformations in
Governance is a major new academic book series from Oxford
University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive
growth of research in comparative politics, international
relations, public policy, federalism, environmental and urban
studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central
states up to supranational institutions, down to subnational
governments, and side-ways to public-private networks. It brings
together work that significantly advances our understanding of the
organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex
governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small
number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and
emerging scholars. The series targets mainly single-authored or
co-authored work, but it is pluralistic in terms of disciplinary
specialization, research design, method, and geographical scope.
Case studies as well as comparative studies, historical as well as
contemporary studies, and studies with a national, regional, or
international focus are all central to its aims. Authors use
qualitative, quantitative, formal modeling, or mixed methods. A
trade mark of the books is that they combine scholarly rigour with
readable prose and an attractive production style. The series is
edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the VU Amsterdam, and Walter Mattli of
the University of Oxford.
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