Regional governance is a topical public policy issue and is receiving
increased attention from scholars, government officials and civic
leaders. As countries continue to urbanize and centralize economic
functions and population in metropolitan regions, the traditional
governing system is not equipped to handle policy issues that spill
over local government boundaries. Governments have utilized four
basic approaches to address the regional governing problem:
consolidating governments, adding a regional tier, creating regional
special districts, and functional cooperative approaches. The first
two are structural approaches that require major (radical) changes to
the governing system. The latter two are governance approaches that
contemplate marginal changes to the existing governance structure and
rely generally on cooperation with other governments and collaboration
with the nongovernmental sector. Canada and the United States have
experimented with these basic forms of regional governance. This
book is a systematic analysis of these basic forms as they have been
experienced by North American cities. Utilizing cases from Canada
and the United States, the book provides an in-depth analysis of
the pros and cons of each approach to regional governance. This
research provides an additional perspective on Canadian and U.S.
regional governance and adds to the knowledge of Canadian and United
States governing systems. This study contributes to the
literature on the various approaches to regional governance as well as
bringing together the most current literature on regional
governance. The author develops a framework of the values that a
regional governing system should provide and measures to assess how
well each basic approach achieves these values. Based on this
assessment, he suggests an approach to regional governance for North
American metropolitan areas that best achieves these values.
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ISBN
9781461416265
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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