![]() | Governing Metropolitan Areas: Growth and Change in a Networked Age Subjects: Politics & International Relations; Urban Studies; Public Administration & Management; U.S. Politics; Urban Studies; Urban Policy; Urban Politics; Government; Governance; Local Government; Urban Politics; Federalism; Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Yet there remains scant attention in textbooks to the issues that arise in trying to address metropolitan governance. Governing Metropolitan Areas describes and analyzes structure to understand the how and why of regionalism in our global age. The book covers governmental institutions and their evolution to governance, but with a continual focus on institutions. David Hamilton provides the necessary comprehensive, in-depth description and analysis of how metropolitan areas and governments within metropolitan areas developed, efforts to restructure and combine local governments, and governance within the polycentric urban region. David Hamilton is director of the MPA program at Texas Tech University. Current research interests include democracy and efficiency, patronage and human resource management, comparative regional governance, and local government reform. He is co-editor of Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability (2008) and author of Governing Metropolitan Areas: Response to Growth and Change (1999). He has published numerous articles on patronage, human resources, and regional topics in leading journals. |
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