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Metropolitan Governance in the Federalist Americas - Strategies for Equitable and Integrated Development (Paperback)
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Metropolitan Governance in the Federalist Americas - Strategies for Equitable and Integrated Development (Paperback)
Series: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
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Despite rapid metropolitanization throughout the Americas and
widespread interest in "megacities," few studies have examined the
new governance structures needed to address issues of citizen
representation and participation and the public service challenges
of population expansion and increasing urban inequalities. To fill
that void, Peter K. Spink, Peter M. Ward, Robert H. Wilson, and the
other contributors to this volume provide original research and
analysis of the principal metropolitan areas in six federalist
countries of the Americas-Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the
United States, and Venezuela. They find that a common feature of
metropolitan expansion is the lack of a unified governmental
structure. Using a comparative research framework, they examine the
forms, functions, legitimacy, and performance of emerging
governmental structures. Their cross-national study shows that
existing institutional structures and political systems impede
collaboration among governments in metropolitan areas. Given both
the relatively few successful models at the local level and the
disinterest on the part of federal governments, regional
governments-states and provinces-seem to provide the most pragmatic
bases for constructing metropolitan governments that are capable of
efficiently delivering services. Because there is no direct path to
achieve such new structures, the authors urge reform at the state
and local levels to address the need to work out the politics and
management structures that will function best within their own
politics.
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