Governing the Metropolitan Region - America''s New Frontier

Informationen zum Autor David Y Miller, Raymon Cox Klappentext This text is aimed at the basic local government management course (upper division or graduate) that addresses the structural, political and management issues associated with regional and metropolitan government. Zusammenfassung This text is aimed at the basic local government management course (upper division or graduate) that addresses the structural, political and management issues associated with regional and metropolitan government. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Governing America’s New Frontier: The Metropolitan Region 2. Creatures of Whom? The Intentionally Conflicted Nature of Local Government in America 3. The Evolution of the Financial Relationship Among State and Local Governments 4. The Primary Types and Roles of Local Governments 5. Fifty States, Fifty Different Systems 6. The New Kid on the Block: The Metropolitan Region 7. The Urban Core as Outward Region Building: A City and Its Contiguous Municipalities 8. Sharing Wealth and Responsibility: Fiscal Regionalism 9. Reshaping Counties and Integrating Regional Special Districts: High Risk but Great Potential 10. Representing the New Kid on the Block: Regional Governing Organizations 11. State Government Versus Local Governments: Creative Tension or Inherent Conflict? 12. The Conflicted Role of Professional Municipal Managers: Help Build or Insulate from the Metropolitan Region? 13. Speculation on the Future

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Cox, Raymond W. Cox, Raymond W. Cox III, Cox Raymond, David Y Miller, David Y. Miller, David Y. Cox Miller
• Publisher: Sharpe
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2014
• EAN: 9780765639837
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-3983-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, Urban & municipal planning, United States of America, USA, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state