TY - BOOK AU - Miller,David Young AU - Nelles,Jen ED - Taylor and Francis. TI - Discovering American regionalism: an introduction to regional intergovernmental organizations SN - 9781351242653 AV - JS348 .M55 2018 U1 - 320.80973 23 PY - 2019/// KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference KW - Intergovernmental cooperation KW - United States KW - Interstate agencies KW - Interstate relations KW - Local government KW - Regional planning KW - State governments KW - State-local relations KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General N1 - chapter 1 Regionalism Then and Now --; chapter 2 Local Government and the Evolution of American Regionalism --; chapter 3 State Approaches to Regional Cross-Boundary Relations --; chapter 4 What's a RIGO? --; chapter 5 Rethinking Regions through the Lens of RIGOs --; chapter 6 RIGO Relationships: IGOs and MPOs --; chapter 7 RIGOs and MSAs: Spatial Dissimilarity --; chapter 8 Measuring the Jurisdictional Environment of Regions: The Regional Power Diffusion Index (RPDI); George Dougherty David Miller --; chapter 9 Distributing Decision-Making between Local Governments on RIGO Boards --; chapter 10 Distributing Decision-Making to the Civic Sector on RIGO Boards; George Dougherty David Miller --; chapter 11 Charting the RIGO Policy Space N2 - Regions are difficult to govern - coordinating policies across local jurisdictional boundaries in the absence of a formal regional government gives rise to enormous challenges. Yet some degree of coordination is almost always essential for local governments to effectively fulfill their responsibilities to their citizens. State and local governments have, over time, awkwardly, and with much experimenting, developed common approaches to regional governance. In this revolutionary new book, authors David Miller and Jen Nellesoffer a new way to conceptualize those common approaches: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) that bring together local governments to coordinate policies across jurisdictional boundaries.RIGOs are not governments themselves, but as Miller and Nelles demonstrate, they do have a measure of political authority that allows them to quietly and sometimes almost invisibly work to further regional interests and mitigate cross-boundary irritations.Providing a new conceptual framework for understanding how regional decision-making has emerged in the U.S., this book will provoke a new and rich era of discussion about American regionalism in theory and practice. Discovering American Regionalism will be a future classic in the study of intergovernmental relations, regionalism, and cross-boundary collaboration UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351242653 ER -