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"Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today's metropolitan regions"--
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Contents
Introduction: Shadow Governments and the Remaking of the American Local State
Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, and Alba Alexander
Part I. The Eclipse of the (Municipal) State
1. City Building Capacity and Special-Purpose Authorities: Institutions, Interests, and the Local State
James M. Smith
2. Phantom Governments: Multiple Function Special Districts as Substitutes for Municipalities
Evan McKenzie
3. Governing Detroit: The Withering of the (Municipal) State
Peter Eisinger
Part II. The Evolving Role of Public-Private Authorities
4. Transportation Empires in the New York and Los Angeles Regions: From the Old to the New Politics of Governance and Development
Steven P. Erie, Scott MacKenzie, and Jameson W. Doig
5. Whetting Their Appetites: Privatization Schemes and the Case of Water
Ellen Dannin and Douglas Cantor
6. The Role of the State in Public-Private Initiatives: Lessons from Great Britain
Alba Alexander
Part III. The Fiscal Politics of the New American Local State
7. Financing Urban Infrastructure (and Services) under the New Normal: A Look at Special Assessments
Shu Wang and Rebecca Hendrick
8. Devolution and Debt: Financing Public Facilities in an Age of Austerity
Rachel Weber, Amanda Kass, and Sara Hinkley
Part IV. Bringing the (Public) State Back In
9. Building the Public City, Privately
David Perry and Mary Donoghue
10. The Fate of the Public Realm: Conclusions
Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, and Alba Alexander
Contributors
Index
About the author
Dennis R. Judd is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including
The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York (Minnesota, 2011).
Evan McKenzie is professor and head of the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of
Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government and
Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government.
Alba Alexander is clinical associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
