Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice
Subtitle: An Exploration of Local Governance (Suny Series in Public Administration)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780791449141
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Public Affairs & Administration; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; United States; Government - State & Provincial; Municipal government
Description: "Institutional arrangements constitute the "rules of the game" for any civil and political society. To understand urban politics and policy making, including issues dealing with economic development, zoning, constituency representation, government borrowing, and service contract decisions, discovering institutional regularities is key.

To achieve this the authors combine older institutional approaches emphasizing formal structure and governance organizations with newer approaches and transaction cost theory.

Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice contends that institutional arrangements both shape and are shaped by human behavior, and when combined with contextual factors and the uncertainty associated with leadership turnover provide the basis of understanding how decisions are made at the level of local government."--BOOK JACKET.