The United States is a nation of local governments. The growth in the number of local
governments over the last sixty years has led many to ask whether the current fragmented …

Among Vincent Ostrom's many contributions to the study of public administration, policy, and
political science, the concept of polycentricity remains his single most important legacy. This …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Income segregation has risen in each of the last
four decades in US metropolitan areas, which can have lifelong impacts on the health …

Not many countries have experienced as fast a growth in the number of local governments
as has present day Indonesia. This study examines how territorial splits under new …

This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental
environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the …

Commercialization of housing markets has significantly transformed the residential space in
Chinese cities. However, few studies have examined social–spatial stratification of …

The fundamental value underlying the design of a fragmented system of local governance is
consumer sovereignty. This system functions as a market‐like arrangement providing citizen …

The article investigates the relationship between environmental violations and water utility
infrastructure investment in the Houston metropolitan area through a lens of institutional …

In what ways is climate change political? This book addresses this key-but oddly neglected-
question. It argues that in order to answer it we need to understand politics in a three-fold …

This article investigates local government responses to fiscal stress through the lens of the K–
12 public education sector, examining two major policy options available to school districts …