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Author Skuzinski, Thomas, author

Title The Risk of Regional Governance : Cultural Theory and Interlocal Cooperation / Thomas Skuzinski
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge Research in Urban Politics and Policy
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Opting Out; Governing Metropolitan Regions; The Legitimacy of Reform; Reform as a Transaction; The Limitations of Economizing; Theoretical Perspectives on Metropolitan Governance; The Goals of the Book; Evidence from Metropolitan Michigan; The Plan of the Book; 2 Governing the Region through Cooperation; The Manchester Community; The Difficulty of Structural Reforms; The Limitations of State and Federal Intervention
Distinguishing CooperationEnabling Cooperation; Awareness of the Law; Conclusion; 3 Beyond Economizing; Transaction Cost Economizing; Cooperation as a Transaction; The Individual in the Local Government Organization; Some Conceptual Issues; Maintaining Systems Versus Creating Lifestyles; When Reform Seems Irrational; Conclusion; 4 Sociocultural Collective Action; Introduction; Revisiting Rationality; Individuals and Institutions; The Appropriateness of Regional Reform; An Illustration; 5 Normative Legitimizing; Introduction; Economizing and Reciprocity in Preference Formation
The Norm of Responsiveness in Local GovernmentThe Treatment of Responsiveness in Economizing Studies; Evidence of Political Legitimizing; 6 Cultural Legitimizing; From Gay Rights to Gun Control to Governance; Grid-Group Cultural Theory; Reconciling Cultural Theory with Rational Choice Institutionalism; Connecting Dispositions to Governance; The Cultural Dispositions of Local Elected Officials; Dispositions and Partisan Identity; Evidence of Cultural Legitimizing; Conclusion; 7 Conclusion; Avenues for Policy Reform under Legitimizing; Dealing with Cultural Pluralism through De-Biasing
The Prospects for Regional Governance through Voluntary Interlocal CooperationAppendices; Appendix A Local Governments and Local Elected Officials in Michigan; Appendix B Survey of Local Elected Officials; Appendix C Data Sources and Variable Specification; Appendix D Summary of Hypotheses; Appendix E Estimation Technique; Appendix F Preferences about Interlocal Land Use Cooperation; Appendix G Results Tables for Quantitative Analyses; Index
Summary "Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems. How do these local officials think? Why do they only sometimes cooperate? What kind of governance do they choose in the face of persistent problems?The Risk of Regional Governance offers a new perspective on these questions. Drawing on theory from sociology and anthropology, it argues that many of the most important cooperative decisions local officials make--those about land use planning and regulation--are driven by heuristic, biased reasoning driven by cultural values. The Risk of Regional Governance builds a sociocultural collective action framework, and supports it with rich survey and interview data from hundreds of local elected officials serving in the suburbs of Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is a story of the Rust Belt, of how local officials think about their community and the region, and--most importantly--of how we might craft policies that can overcome biases against regional governance."--Provided by publisher
Subject Metropolitan government -- Social aspects
Intergovernmental cooperation.
Intergovernmental cooperation -- Michigan -- Detroit Metropolitan Area
Regional planning -- Michigan -- Detroit Metropolitan Area
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Local.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
Intergovernmental cooperation
Politics and government
Regional planning
SUBJECT Detroit Metropolitan Area (Mich.) -- Politics and government
Subject Michigan -- Detroit Metropolitan Area
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315304038
1315304031