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Comparative metropolitan policy : governing beyond local boundaries in the imagined metropolis / Jen Nelles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelles, Jen, 1979-
- Series:
- Routledge research in comparative politics ; 48.
- Routledge research in comparative politics ; 48
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metropolitan government.
- Intergovernmental cooperation.
- Regional planning.
- Metropolitan government--Case studies.
- Intergovernmental cooperation--Case studies.
- Regional planning--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Summary:
- Metropolitan Governance and Policy explores how partnerships between local governments are established or maintained. Cooperation between local actors is the fundamental foundation of governance networks, yet how cooperative relationships are established remains underexpored and poorly understood. What factors encourage or hinder cooperation between municipalities for regional governance of economic development? In investigating this question, the book integrates the different approaches of regionl governance and intermunicipal cooperation scholarship into one theoretical framework that investigates how local institutions and externally-generated opportunities affect the strength of cooperative partnerships. The influence of these factors on cooperation between municipal governments is tested in four metropolitan regions and across three issue areas. Metropolitan Governance and Policy will be of interest to students and scholars of urban politics and governance, and comparative politics.
- Contents:
- Cooperation and governance in city-regions
- Towards a theoretical framework of intermunicipal cooperation
- Civic capital
- Frankfurt Rhein Main: a region in search of an identity
- Rhein Neckar: a region build from below
- Toronto: strong city, weak region
- Waterloo: forging a culture of cooperation
- Catalyzing cooperation: the best of two worlds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415684750
- 0415684757
- 9780203126745
- 0203126742
- OCLC:
- 712124104
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