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Community, Scale, and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume II (Transformations in Governance)
Liesbet Hooghe
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Description for Community, Scale, and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume II (Transformations in Governance)
Hardcover. This key volume by two of the world's leading political scientists aims to theorize the structure of governance below the central state. Series: Transformations in Governance. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; JPP; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state. The book argues that jurisdictional design is shaped by the functional pressures that arise from the logic of scale in providing public goods and by the preferences that people have regarding self-government. The first has to do with the character of the public goods provided by government: their scale economies, externalities, and informational asymmetries. The second has to do with how ... Read more
This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state. The book argues that jurisdictional design is shaped by the functional pressures that arise from the logic of scale in providing public goods and by the preferences that people have regarding self-government. The first has to do with the character of the public goods provided by government: their scale economies, externalities, and informational asymmetries. The second has to do with how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Transformations in Governance
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198766971
SKU
V9780198766971
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99-4
About Liesbet Hooghe
Gary Marks is Burton Craige Professor of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, and holds the Chair in Multilevel Governance at the VU, Amsterdam. In 2010 he was awarded a Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Prize) for his contributions to Political Science, and was recipient of an Advanced European Research Council Grant (2010-2015). Marks has published widely in the leading journals of ... Read more
Reviews for Community, Scale, and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume II (Transformations in Governance)
This is a ground-breaking book on one of the most remarkable governance trends in the world today: the rise of subnational regional authority. Understanding why regions have claimed new relevance in so many countries is a pressing question for comparative politics, and Hooghe and Marks have provided a powerful answer that will change the way we study this phenomenon. Moving ... Read more