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The regional governing of metropolitan America /

Economic regions competing in a global marketplace may well describe the emerging organizing principle of metropolitan areas. Even though the concept of a metropolitan region is relatively new, the road to the metropolitan region travels through an area of well-established institutions and cultural...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, David Young
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. ; Oxford : Westview, 2002.
Colección:Essentials of public policy and administration series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Financial Overview of the State and Local Governments System
  • State and Local Revenues
  • State and Local Expenditures
  • Defining Types of Local Government
  • County Government
  • Municipal Governments
  • Special/School District Government
  • Activities of Counties and Municipalities
  • Metropolitan Regions in the United States
  • Definition of Metropolitan Regions
  • Variation in Metropolitan Regions
  • Difference in State Systems and Metropolitan Areas
  • The Descriptive Analysis
  • The Explanatory Analysis
  • The Metropolitan Power Diffusion Index
  • The Classic Debate in the Organization of Metropolitan Regions
  • The Metropolitan Region as an Organic Whole
  • The Polycentric Region
  • Defining Regionalism and Approaches to Regionalism
  • Coordinating Regionalism
  • Administrative Regionalism
  • Fiscal Regionalism
  • Structural Regionalism
  • Metropolitan Issues
  • The Role of Metropolitan Structure--Race and Economics
  • The Role of Structure--Maintaining Fiscal Equity between Jurisdictions.