David Y Miller, Raymond Cox

Governing the Metropolitan Region: America's New Frontier: 2014 (eBook, ePUB)

America's New Frontier

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317469544
• Artikelnr.: 42188274

Autorenporträt

David Y Miller, Raymon Cox

Inhaltsangabe

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