Discovering American Regionalism: An Introduction to Regional Intergovernmental Organizations

ISBN-13: 9780815374268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 274 str.

David Young Miller; Jen Nelles

Opis

In this revolutionary new book, authors David Miller and Jennifer Nelles humbly offer a new way to conceptualize those common approaches: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) that bring together local governments to coordinate policies across jurisdictional boundaries. Providing a new conceptual framework for understanding how regional decision-making has emerged in the US, this book will provoke a new and rich era of discussion about American regionalism in theory and practice.

Spis treści

1. Regionalism Then and Now  2. Local Government and the Evolution of American Regionalism  3. State Approaches to Regional Cross-Boundary Relations  3. What’s a RIGO?  5. Rethinking Regions through the Lens of RIGOs  6. RIGO Relationships: IGOs and MPOs  7. RIGOs and MSAs: Spatial Dissimilarity  8. Measuring the Jurisdictional Environment of Regions: The Regional Power Diffusion Index (RPDI) [George Dougherty and David Miller]  9. Distributing Decision-Making between Local Governments on RIGO Boards [Jay Rickabaugh]  10. Distributing Decision-Making to the Civic Sector on RIGO Boards [George Dougherty and David Miller]  11. Charting the RIGO Policy Space  Appendix 1. State Listing of RIGOs  Appendix 2. State Listing of RMPOs