Regionalism and Realism: A Study of Governments in the New York Metropolitan Area

by Richard Nathan, Gerald Benjamin, Richard P. Nathan

Book Overview

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Drawing on the history of state and local government in the New York Tri-State metropolitan region, the authors present a pathbreaking new theory about the values reformers must understand and balance in order to tackle the hard challenges of reforming and regionalizing local governance in the complex, dynamic world of American politics and public policy. Their examination of the way 2,179 local governments in the Tri-State region have evolved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815700873
• ISBN13: 9780815700876
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"