Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice

You Have 0 Item(s) In Cart |

My Account |

Order Status |

Check Out |

Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice
An Exploration of Local Governance

Click on image to enlarge

James C. Clingermayer - Author
Richard C. Feiock - Author

SUNY series in Public Administration

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 164 pages

Release Date: April 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-4913-0
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4913-4

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 164 pages

Release Date: March 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-4914-9
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4914-1

Available as a Google eBook for other eReaders and tablet devices. Click icon below...

Summary

Demonstrates how governmental structure and institutional rules determine who gets what in American cities.

Institutional arrangements constitute the "rules of the game" for any civil and political society. To understand urban politics and policy making, including issues dealing with economic development, zoning, constituency representation, government borrowing, and service contract decisions, discovering institutional regularities is key. To achieve this the authors combine older institutional approaches emphasizing formal structure and governance organizations with newer approaches and transaction cost theory. Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice contends that institutional arrangements both shape and are shaped by human behavior, and when combined with contextual factors and the uncertainty associated with leadership turnover provide the basis of understanding how decisions are made at the level of local government.

"This book could have a profound effect on how we both study and teach local government decision making. It encourages local government scholars to once again include variables representative of local institutional arrangements in equations seeking to explain local government decision making." -- J. Edwin Benton, University of South Florida

"Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice should be a standard among urban oriented graduate courses. It summarizes a broad literature and integrates the latest research and methods, and demonstrates the connection between theory, method, and hypothesis testing. It is the best book written on this topic." -- Max Neiman, University of California, Riverside

James C. Clingermayer is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University. Richard C. Feiock is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1
Institutional Foundations of Local Governance

CHAPTER 2
Institutional Incentives and Policy Choice

CHAPTER 3
Constituencies, Contacting, and Casework

CHAPTER 4
Leadership Turnover and the Delivery of City Services

CHAPTER 5
Turnover, Time Horizons, and Credible Commitments: The Politics of Long-Term Obligations

CHAPTER 6
External Constraints and Local Policy Choice

CHAPTER 7
Conclusion: Institutions and Local Government

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

Political Science
Public Policy
State and Local Politics
Urban Studies

39292/39291(MR//)

Related Titles


The Grant System	Conflict, Competition, or Cooperation?	Government Budgeting	Democracy and the Policy Sciences	Business Elites and Urban Development
Splintered Accountability	Tax Cheating	Universal Preschool	Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair	Letters of Louis D. Brandeis: Volume V, 1921-1941