Description: Private Metropolis by Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, Alba Alexander Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description "Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of todays metropolitan regions"-- Publisher Description Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of todays metropolitan regionsIn recent decades metropolitan regions in the United States have witnessed the rise of multitudes of "shadow governments" that often supersede or replace functions traditionally associated with municipalities and other local governments inherited from the urban past. Shadow governments take many forms, ranging from billion-dollar special authorities that span entire urban regions, to publicprivate partnerships and special districts created to accomplish particular tasks, to privatized gated communities, to neighborhood organizations empowered to receive private and public funds. They finance and administer public services ranging from the prosaic (garbage collection and water utilities) to the transformative (economic development and infrastructure). Private Metropolis demonstrates that this complex ecosystem of local governance has compromised and even eclipsed democratic processes by moving important policy decisions out of public sight.The quasi-public institutions of urban governance generally escape the budgetary and statutory restraints imposed on traditional local governments and protect policy decisions from the limitations and vagaries of electoral politics. Moving major policy decisions into a privatized and corporatized realm facilitates efficiency and speed, but at the cost of democratic oversight. Increasingly, the urban electorate is left debating symbolic issues only tangentially connected to the actual distribution of the resources that affect peoples lives.The essays in Private Metropolis grapple with the difficult and timely questions that arise from this new ecology of governance: What are the consequences of the proliferation of special authorities, privatized governments, and publicprivate arrangements? Is the trade-off between democratic accountability and efficiency worth it? Has the public sector, with its messiness and inefficiencies-but also its checks and balances-ceded too much power to these new institutions? By examining such questions, this book provokes a long-overdue debate about the future of urban governance.Contributors: Douglas Cantor, California State U, Long Beach; Ellen Dannin, Pennsylvania State U; Jameson W. Doig, Princeton U; Mary Donoghue; Peter Eisinger, New School; Steven P. Erie, U of California, San Diego; Rebecca Hendrick, U of Illinois at Chicago; Sara Hinkley, U of California, Berkeley; Amanda Kass, U of Illinois at Chicago; Scott A. MacKenzie, U of California, Davis; David C. Perry, U of Illinois at Chicago; James M. Smith, U of Indiana South Bend; Shu Wang, Michigan State U; Rachel Weber, U of Illinois at Chicago. Author Biography Dennis R. Judd is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York (Minnesota, 2011).Evan McKenzie is professor and head of the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government and Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government.Alba Alexander is clinical associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Details ISBN 151791082X ISBN-13 9781517910822 Title Private Metropolis Author Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, Alba Alexander Format Paperback Year 2021 Pages 312 Publisher University of Minnesota Press GE_Item_ID:161854649; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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ISBN-13: 9781517910822
Book Title: Private Metropolis
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Name: Private Metropolis : the Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Item Height: 1.5 in
Subject: American Government / Local, Public Affairs & Administration, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Public Policy / Regional Planning
Publication Year: 2021
Item Weight: 15.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Evan Mckenzie
Subject Area: Political Science
Item Length: 8.5 in
Series: Globalization and Community Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
