Political representation in metropolitan agencies
In: Michigan governmental studies 42
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In: Political science series
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Volume 59, Issue 5, p. 287-287
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Volume 53, Issue 7, p. 365-370
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: National civic review: publ. by the National Municipal League, Volume 53, p. 365-370
ISSN: 0027-9013
In: Public management: PM, Volume 43, p. 26-32
ISSN: 0033-3611
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Volume 49, Issue 1, p. 55-56
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Volume 48, Issue 1, p. 12-28
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: American political science review, Volume 52, Issue 2, p. 406-418
ISSN: 1537-5943
Unless federation and political representation are developed in metropolitan areas, compartmentalization of local government and fragmentation of public administration will continue. The unmistakable characteristics of American metropolitan areas make them easy to spot: dense populations, urban in nature; industrial and commercial resources; one or more central cities producing the mononucleated or polynucleated pattern; economic and social interconnections maintained by a daily inflow and outflow of traffic. The web of economic and social structure is, however, by no means equalled by political interconnections. The governmental services required by the people living in the area are either unresolved in their metropolitan aspects or are administered by authorities which are often autonomous and remote from coordinated control. Area-wide government to establish policy for the metropolitan population in its unanimity of need and interest is lacking. No political power is in existence to administer the metropolitan aspects of functions. Metropolitan government as such does not exist; it is a concept and possibly a tentative approach. So far, it is no more than that. Still less in esse is metropolitan self-government.
In: American political science review, Volume 52, p. 406-418
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: American political science review, Volume 52, Issue 2
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: National municipal review, Volume 46, Issue 3, p. 118-130
In: National municipal review, Volume 46, p. 118-123
ISSN: 0190-3799
In: National municipal review, Volume 45, Issue 8, p. 414-414
In: National municipal review, Volume 44, Issue 3, p. 132-136
AbstractLeague provisions divide powers between state and city; exempt local powers from legislative control.