Govern local public economy

Author: Ronald J. Oakerson
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book views urban governance through the lens of cooperation rather than domination. Its primary focus is to elucidate the prerequisites and conditions for cooperation, namely which institutional arrangements promote cooperation and which policy tools can be used to maintain such cooperation. Although all the research and case studies in this book are set in the context of the United States, the conceptual analytical framework and theoretical tools it employs can be applied to any urban context. These