Research Catalog

Title

Metropolitan governance in the federalist Americas : strategies for equitable and integrated development / edited by Peter K. Spink, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
• Spink, Peter.
• Ward, Peter M., 1951-
• Wilson, Robert Hines.

Description

xii, 311 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Comparative government
• Federal government > America
• Metropolitan government > America

Note

• "Recent titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies"--P. [ii].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The challenge of metropolitan governance in the federalist Americas / Robert H. Wilson, Peter M. Ward, and Peter K. Spink -- Metropolitan governance in Canada / Andrew Sancton -- Metropolitan governance in the United States : is fragmentation an effective strategy? / Robert H. Wilson -- Metropolitan governance in Brazil : institutions, organizations, and lessons from intermunicipal consortia / Peter K. Spink, Marco Antonio C. Teixeira, and Roberta Clemente -- Metropolitan governance in Mexico : mission impossible? / Peter M. Ward with Héctor Robles -- Argentina : the political constraints to effective metropolitan governance / Pedro Pírez -- Venezuela : politics, urban reform , and the challenges of metropolitan governance amid the struggle for democracy / David J. Myers -- Directions and dynamics of change, and the prospects for metropolitan governance in the Americas / Peter M. Ward, Robert H. Wilson, and Peter K. Spink.

ISBN

• 9780268041410 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0268041415 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780268092665 (ebook)
• 0268092664 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2012030900

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Harvard Library