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Governing Metropolitan Areas: Growth and Change in a Networked Age book cover

2nd Edition

Governing Metropolitan Areas Growth and Change in a Networked Age

By David K. Hamilton Copyright 2014
416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge
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Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Yet there remains scant attention in textbooks to the issues that arise in trying to address... Read more

1. Growth of Urban America. 2. Public Policy Issues and Regional Governance. 3. Suburbanization and Annexation. 4. Government Centralization Responses: Consolidation and Metropolitan Government. 5. The Impact of Federal and State Government Policies on Regionalism. 6. Providing Services in the Decentralized Metropolis. 7. Providing Services in Decentralized Metropolitan Areas through Intergovernmental Cooperation and Contracting. 8. The County and Regional Governance. 9. Unique Approaches to Regional Governance and Fiscal Regionalism. 10. Collaborative Regional Governance. 11. Regional Governance in Selected Metropolitan Areas in other Countries. 12. Future Directions for Regional Governance in a Global Society.

Biography

David Hamilton is director of the MPA program at Texas Tech University. Current research interests include democracy and efficiency, patronage and human resource management, comparative regional governance, and local government reform. He is co-editor of Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability (2008) and author of Governing Metropolitan Areas: Response to Growth and Change (1999). He has published numerous articles on patronage, human resources, and regional topics in leading journals.

"Regionalism enjoys strong support across political and ideological boundaries. This text offers one of the most compelling and insightful perspectives into what regionalism looks like in practice, the strengths and weaknesses of regionalism, and the conditions under which regionalism succeeds."
—Mark K. Cassell, Kent State University

"David Hamilton has produced a highly engaging text on metropolitan governance. Its strengths include a clear, single-authored focus, accessible reflections for senior undergraduates, graduates, and practitioners on contemporary governability challenges in our larger city-regions, and sufficient comparative reflections to challenge any false clarities in how we might govern ourselves in an increasing urban-metropolitan world."
—Patrick Smith, Simon Fraser University

"This is a competent and relevant update of the book and deserves continued use.--W. C. Johnson, independent scholar."

Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, and professional collections. CHOICE

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