Overview
- Analyzes the different approaches to regional governance utilized by Canada and the United States
- Contains case studies from Canada and the US, which are compared to bring out the differences of the four systems of regional governance
- Contributes to the literature on the various approaches to regional governance as well as bring together and analyze the most current literature on regional governance
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Public Administration, Governance and Globalization (PAGG, volume 2)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Regional governance is a topical public policy issue and is receiving increased attention from scholars, government officials and civic leaders. As countries continue to urbanize and centralize economic functions and population in metropolitan regions, the traditional governing system is not equipped to handle policy issues that spill over local government boundaries.   Governments have utilized four basic approaches to address the regional governing problem: consolidating governments, adding a regional tier, creating regional special districts, and functional cooperative approaches. The first two are structural approaches that require major (radical) changes to the governing system. The latter two are governance approaches that contemplate marginal changes to the existing governance structure and rely generally on cooperation with other governments and collaboration with the nongovernmental sector.Â
Canada and the United States have experimented with these basic forms of regional governance. This book is a systematic analysis of these basic forms as they have been experienced by North American cities. Utilizing cases from Canada and the United States, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the pros and cons of each approach to regional governance. This research provides an additional perspective on Canadian and U.S. regional governance and adds to the knowledge of Canadian and United States governing systems.   This study contributes to the literature on the various approaches to regional governance as well as bringing together the most current literature on regional governance.Â
The author develops a framework of the values that a regional governing system should provide and measures to assess how well each basic approach achieves these values. Based on this assessment, he suggests an approach to regional governance for North American metropolitan areas that best achieves these values.Â
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Measuring the Effectiveness of Regional Governing Systems
Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of City Regions in North America
Authors: David K. Hamilton
Series Title: Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1626-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1625-8Published: 01 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0215-6Published: 19 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1626-5Published: 23 October 2012
Series ISSN: 2512-2347
Series E-ISSN: 2512-2363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 192
Topics: Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Political Science