Understanding Urban Government: Metropolitan Reform Reconsidered (Domestic Affairs Study 20)

by Vincent Ostrom, Bish, Robert L. Bish

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 084473120X
• ISBN13: 9780844731209
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

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Economics and Urban Affairs

Understanding Urban Government: Metropolitan Reform Reconsidered by Robert L. Bish and Vincent Ostrom provides an introduction to "public choice" analysis of urban problems. The authors argue that a critical rethinking of the problem of urban government is vitally needed and long overdue. As a means to this new perspective, they offer the public choice approach, which takes as its starting point the diversity of individual preferences and the diverse nature of public goods and services. Bish and Ostrom analyze a number of studies that compare the traditional alternative of metropolitan consolidation with the public choice alternative of a dynamic mix of multi-level public and private services. They conclude with some suggestions for future research. -- from book's back cover