Self-organizing federalism
Subtitle: collaborative mechanisms to mitigate institutional collective action
By: edited by Richard C. Feiock, John T. Scholz.
Contributors: Feiock, Richard C.; Scholz, John T.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780521764933
Subjects: Public administration -- United States; Intergovernmental cooperation -- United States; Public-private sector cooperation -- United States; Central-local government relations -- United States; Federal government -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Self-organizing governance of institutional collective action dilemmas : an overview / Richard C. Feiock and John T. Scholz; title: Can consolidation preserve local autonomy? : mitigating vertical and horizontal dilemmas / Andrew B. Whitford; title: The institutional collective action perspective on self-organizing mechanisms : market failures and transaction cost problems / Annette Steinacker; title: Conflict, power, and irreconcilable preferences : some limits to self organizing mechanisms / Bryan Jones; title: Adaptive versus restrictive contracts : can they resolve different risk problems? / Simon Andrew; title: Do risk profiles of services alter contractual patterns? : a comparison across multiple metropolitan services / Manoj Shrestha; title: Special districts versus contracts : complements or substitutes? / Megan Mullin; title: The political market for intergovernmental cooperation / Kenneth N. Bickers, Stephanie Post and Robert M. Stein; title: Collaborative institutions, functional areas, and beliefs : what are their roles in policy networks? / Christopher M. Weible; title: Sustaining joint ventures : the role of resource exchange and the strength of inter-organizational relationships / Ramiro Berardo; title: Institutional collective action in an ecology of games / Mark Lubell, Adam Henry, and Mike McCoy; title: Enhancing vertical and horizontal self-organization : harnessing informal networks to integrate policies within and between governments in the European Union / Paul Thurner; title: Self-organizing mechanisms for mitigating institutional collective action dilemmas : an assessment and research agenda / Richard C. Feiock and John T. Scholz.