Community, Scale, and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance
- ISBN-10
- 0191821187
- ISBN-13
- 9780191821189
- Category
- Federal government
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Authors
- Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe
Description
This text is written for those interested in the character, causes and consequences of governance within the state. It argues that jurisdictional design is shaped by the functional pressures that arise from the logic of scale in providing public goods and by the preferences that people have regarding self-government.
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