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Governing the Tap : Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American and Comparative Environmental Policy SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262259088
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Governing the TapDDC classification:
  • 363.6/10973
LOC classification:
  • HD4461.M85 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Conditional Theory of Specialized Governance -- 3 Private Costs and Public Benefits in Local Public Services -- 4 Distributing the Price of Growth -- 5 Boundaries and the Incentive to Act Alone -- 6 Fighting over Land and Water -- 7 Specialization and Fragmentation in American Local Governance -- Appendix 1 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 3 -- Appendix 2 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 4 -- Appendix 3 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 5 -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: An analysis of the political consequences of special district governance in drinking water management that offers new insights into the influence of political structures on local policymaking.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Conditional Theory of Specialized Governance -- 3 Private Costs and Public Benefits in Local Public Services -- 4 Distributing the Price of Growth -- 5 Boundaries and the Incentive to Act Alone -- 6 Fighting over Land and Water -- 7 Specialization and Fragmentation in American Local Governance -- Appendix 1 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 3 -- Appendix 2 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 4 -- Appendix 3 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 5 -- Notes -- References -- Index.

An analysis of the political consequences of special district governance in drinking water management that offers new insights into the influence of political structures on local policymaking.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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