“Resilience thinking” for planning

A Eraydin - Resilience thinking in urban planning, 2012 - Springer
Since the late 1970s, neoliberalisation and market-friendly policies have been affecting the
way cities develop and function. Neoliberal principles based on market reliance seem to …

Metropolitan governance and institutional collective action

RC Feiock - Urban affairs review, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This article describes the institutional collective action (ICA) framework and its application to
the study of governance arrangements in metropolitan areas by focusing on the tools of …

Urban governance in India

IJ Ahluwalia - Journal of Urban Affairs, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The pace and growth of urbanization in India poses enormous challenges to urban
governance. This article examines the institutional features and devolution mechanisms of …

Interlocal agreements as collaborations: An empirical investigation of impetuses, norms, and success

YC Chen, K Thurmaier - The American Review of Public …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Interlocal agreements (ILAs) have long been a useful tool for municipal and county
governments to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of local government services. Yet …

Administrators' and elected officials' collaboration networks: Selecting partners to reduce risk in economic development

RC Feiock, IW Lee, HJ Park - Public Administration Review, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Networks play an important role in collaboration, but previous work has not examined the
different roles of elected and appointed officials in these networks. This article investigates …

Intermunicipal cooperation in the Netherlands: the costs and the effectiveness of polycentric regional governance

PJ Klok, B Denters, M Boogers… - Public administration …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the effects of the structure of intermunicipal cooperatives (IMCs) on the
perceived transaction costs and benefits of IMCs. Hypotheses based on a polycentric theory …

The costs of cooperation: What the research tells us about managing the risks of service collaborations in the US

JB Carr, CV Hawkins - State and Local Government Review, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Service collaborations often must confront risks arising from problems of coordination,
division, and defection. US scholars have focused on understanding the efficacy of three …

Governing interlocal cooperation: City council interests and the implications for public management

ES Zeemering - Public Administration Review, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Local government managers are described as key participants in the development of
interlocal cooperation, but the interests of city councils in this process have gone largely …

Collaboration risk and the choice to consolidate local government services

K Hansen, M Mullin, EK Riggs - Perspectives on Public …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Collaboration among local governments occurs through a range of mechanisms, which vary
in degree of formality from contracts and ad hoc agreements to full consolidation. Prior work …

The roles of regional organizations for interlocal resource exchange: Complement or substitute?

SW Kwon, RC Feiock, J Bae - The American Review of …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates competing visions of how regional organizations influence
cooperation among individual local governments within a metropolitan area. As network …