Comparative Metropolitan Policy - 9781138186149

Taylor & Francis

Comparative Metropolitan PolicyGoverning Beyond Local Boundaries in the Imagined Metropolis\nAuthor(s): Jen Nelles\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138186149, 978-1138186149\nSynopsis\nHow are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain cultural infrastructure in metropolitan regions. In this era of fragmented authority, local governments alone rarely possess the capacity to address these policy issues alone.\n\nThis book explores the sources and barriers to cooperation and metropolitan policy making. It combines different streams of scholarship on regional governance to explain how and why metropolitan partnerships emerge and flourish in some places and fail to in ot.