Functional responsibilities of municipal government: Metropolitan disparities and instruments of intergovernmental management

Agustín León-Moreta

Urban Studies, 2019, vol. 56, issue 12, 2585-2607

Abstract: This paper examines the functional responsibilities of municipal government, in the context of intergovernmental interactions in metropolitan areas of the USA. It presents an operationalisation of the functional responsibilities of municipal government: measures of size and breadth of those responsibilities assess the reliability of the findings across those related measurements. Alternative explanations are tested for differences in the functional responsibilities of municipal government in metropolitan (metro) areas. The central finding is that the functional responsibilities of municipal government vary widely; additional findings are that regional and intergovernmental contexts shape those responsibilities, based on a pooled time-series analysis of municipal governments. The paper reports census-normalised data that can be utilised for research extensions. Although its primary contribution is to research on functional responsibilities of municipal government, the paper also proposes a local public economies approach to identify factors influencing the breadth of those responsibilities in metropolitan areas.

Keywords: functional (service) responsibilities; intergovernmental management; metropolitan areas; municipal longevity; è Œèƒ½ï¼ˆæœ åŠ¡ï¼‰è Œè´£; æ”¿åºœé—´ç®¡ç †; 大都市区; 市政寿命 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098018794612

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