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Book An Analysis of Regional Boundaries Used by Government

Download or read book An Analysis of Regional Boundaries Used by Government written by Brian W.. Hogwood and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Which English Regions

Download or read book Which English Regions written by Brian W. Hogwood and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Realining Regional Boundaries of Certain Federal Agencies

Download or read book Realining Regional Boundaries of Certain Federal Agencies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Executive and Legislative Reorganization Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies administrative regional boundary realignments proposed for DOL, HEW, HUD, OEO and SBA.

Book OPPAGA

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  • Author : Florida. Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 8 pages

Download or read book OPPAGA written by Florida. Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Redrawing Local Government Boundaries

Download or read book Redrawing Local Government Boundaries written by John Meligrana and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local governments today are under extreme pressure to undertake boundary reform. The global trend toward urbanization has brought with it economic, environmental, social, and regional demands that have severe implications for local governments and their territories. As a result, changing the areal jurisdiction of this most basic level of government has become a persistent and pressing challenge around the globe. This collection examines the legal and regulatory procedures involved in such municipal restructuring. Case studies from eight nations - the United States, Canada, Spain, Germany, Israel, Korea, China, and South Africa - investigate how and why local governments have been enlarged in scope and reduced in number within each country. Four key aspects are examined: the geography of the local government boundary problem, the procedures associated with boundary reform, the roles of institutions and actors in boundary reform, and the implications for urban and regional governance. Redrawing Local Government Boundaries offers a broad theoretical understanding of local government boundary reform and informs the wider scholarly discussion about institutional change, state structures, and the areal jurisdiction of local governments. The first international comparative study of local boundary reform, it will be a valuable reference for scholars and students of political science, public administration, geography, urban studies, and urban planning.

Book Measuring the Effectiveness of Regional Governing Systems

Download or read book Measuring the Effectiveness of Regional Governing Systems written by David K. Hamilton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. 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.

Book No Dig  No Fly  No Go

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  • Author : Mark Monmonier
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-05-15
  • ISBN : 0226534634
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book No Dig No Fly No Go written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors. It is this aspect of mapping—its power to prohibit—that celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier tackles in No Dig, No Fly, No Go. Rooted in ancient Egypt’s need to reestablish property boundaries following the annual retreat of the Nile’s floodwaters, restrictive mapping has been indispensable in settling the American West, claiming slices of Antarctica, protecting fragile ocean fisheries, and keeping sex offenders away from playgrounds. But it has also been used for opprobrium: during one of the darkest moments in American history, cartographic exclusion orders helped send thousands of Japanese Americans to remote detention camps. Tracing the power of prohibitive mapping at multiple levels—from regional to international—and multiple dimensions—from property to cyberspace—Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence our experience—from homeownership and voting to taxation and airline travel. A worthy successor to his critically acclaimed How to Lie with Maps, the book is replete with all of the hallmarks of a Monmonier classic, including the wry observations and witty humor. In the end, Monmonier looks far beyond the lines on the page to observe that mapped boundaries, however persuasive their appearance, are not always as permanent and impermeable as their cartographic lines might suggest. Written for anyone who votes, owns a home, or aspires to be an informed citizen, No Dig, No Fly. No Go will change the way we look at maps forever.

Book Territorial Choice

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  • Author : Harald Baldersheim
  • Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
  • Release : 2010-07-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Territorial Choice written by Harald Baldersheim and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Territorial Choice: Rescaling Governance in European States-- H.Baldersheim & L.E.Rose The Danish Revolution in Local Government: How and Why?-- P.E.Mouritzen Finnish Power-shift: The Defeat of the Periphery-- S.Sandberg The Swedish Model Under Stress: Waning of the Egalitarian, Unitary State?-- A.Lidstrom The staying Power of the Norwegian Periphery-- H.Baldersheim & L.Rose Larger and Larger? The Endless Search for Efficiency in the UK-- P.John Step-by-step: Territorial Choice in the Netherlands-- M.Boedeltje & B.Denters Multiple Choice: The Persistence of Territorial Pluralism in the German Federation-- M.Walter-Rogg France and its 36,000 Communes: An Impossible Reform?-- E.Kerrouche Italian Regionalism: A Semi-federation is Taking Shape -- or is it?-- M. Brunazzo Efficiency Imperatives in a Fragmented Polity: Reinventing Local Government in Greece-- P.Getimis & N.Hlepas Top-down or Bottom-up? Coping with Territorial Fragmentation in the Czech Republic-- M.Illner A Comparative Analysis of Territorial Choice in Europe -- Conclusions-- H.Baldersheim & L.E.Rose Bibliography.

Book Global Boundaries

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  • Author : Clive H. Schofield
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-01-31
  • ISBN : 1134880359
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Global Boundaries written by Clive H. Schofield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Boundaries considers conceptual, legal and geopolitical aspects of international borders and borderlands. This book also presents a detailed discussion of Antarctica, an area of global territorial dispute.

Book Devolution and Localism in England

Download or read book Devolution and Localism in England written by David M. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining historical and policy study with empirical research from a qualitative study of regional elites this book offers an original and timely insight into the progress of devolution of governance in England. With particular interest in how governments have tried and continue to engage English people in sub-national democratic processes while dealing with the realities of governance it uses in-depth interviews with key figures from three English regions to get the ’inside view’ of how these processes are seen by the regional and local political, administrative, business and voluntary sector elites who have to make policies work in practice. Tracing the development of decentralisation policies through regional policies up to and including the general election in 2010 and the radical shift away from regionalism to localism by the new Coalition Government thereafter the authors look in detail at some of the key policies of the incumbent Coalition Government such as City Regions and Localism and their implementation. Finally they consider the implications of the existing situation and speculate on possible issues for the future.

Book Modern Political Geography

Download or read book Modern Political Geography written by Richard Muir and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exploring Your World

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : National Geographic Society
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780870447266
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book Exploring Your World written by and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 1989 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family reference work containing alphabetically arranged articles, with charts, maps, and photographs, covering physical and human geography.

Book Regional Boundaries  Co ordination and Government

Download or read book Regional Boundaries Co ordination and Government written by Joseph Rowntree Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Regional Politics

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  • Author : H. V. Savitch
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications
  • Release : 1996-07-29
  • ISBN : 145224832X
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Regional Politics written by H. V. Savitch and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-07-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the thoughts of outstanding contributors, Regional Politics presents a comparative study on the emerging regional nature of local and urban politics. Recent studies tend to focus on the politics and power of internal cities or on suburban areas that have gained incredible strength in the past decade. However, this important volume explores how politics work in the extended metropolis or "functional city"--which includes and surrounds the urban core and whose economy, society, and politics are integrally joined. Contributors center on detailed case studies of 10 cities with a look at the development of regional patterns, an analysis of the impact regionalism has on urban politics, and an outline for an overall approach. The comprehensive and state-of-the-art expertise presented in this volume makes Regional Politics ideal for planners, policymakers, academics, researchers, and students in the areas of urban politics, state and local government, and public policy.

Book Eurasia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Grundy-Warr
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-09-11
  • ISBN : 1134880561
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Eurasia written by Carl Grundy-Warr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eurasia offers a wide-ranging and original interpretation of territory, boundaries and borderlands in Europe, Asia and the Far East. This forms part of a unique series of books focussing on world boundaries which embrace the theory and practice of boundary delimitation and management, boundary disputes and conflict resolution, and territorial change in the new world order.

Book The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries

Download or read book The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries written by George Gavrilis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grappling with an issue at the core of the modern state and international security, George Gavrilis explores border control from the 19th century Ottoman Empire to 21st century Central Asia, China, and Afghanistan, exploring why some borders deter insurgents, smugglers, bandits, and militants while most suffer from infiltration and crisis.