Voluntary Regional Councils and the New Regionalism

Visser, James A.

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“…Propelled by the developments in the age of globalization mentioned previously, many countries have created regional councils [37,39]. Regional councils are understood as a multi-service entity with state and locally-defined boundaries that delivers a variety of federal, state and local programs while continuing its function as a planning organisation, technical assistance provider and 'visionary' to its member local governments [35].…”

Section: Regional Councilsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To explore the regional councils considered in this study the following analytical framework is developed. Based on criteria drawn from the literature [35,[37][38][39][40][41][42], the following questions are used to develop an analytical framework: How does the regional council work and how is the work legitimated?…”

Section: Regional Councilsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within the diverse possibilities of governing metropolitan regions-from developing "hard structures" by changing existing administrative and governance systems till governing by soft mechanisms through, e.g., developing spatial visions [15,16] or influencing discourses [36]-one possibility is the creation of regional councils [35,37]. Grigsby (1996) emphasises regional councils as one of the mechanisms thought capable of meeting changing challenges posed by changing global conditions [38].…”

Section: Introduction: Acknowledging the Regional Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Regional Councils in a Global Context: Council Types and Council Elements

Growe

Jemming

2019

Urban Science

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Propelled by the increasing global competition for location qualities and production factors of (economic) regions in the age of globalization, regional councils have been introduced on sub-national levels in a number of countries. However, the conditions to develop and to govern these regional spaces vary massively in global comparison. Based on three types of elements for the well-functioning of regional councils, in this study, ten regional councils across the globe have been analysed and compared by carrying out qualitative web researches and expert’s interviews. Results show that although huge differences between the political organizations in the globally selected case studies exist, two main forms and two sub-types of councils—with a specific functional orientation—can be identified. The aim of the paper is to provide an analytical framework that can be used in analysing regional councils or in processes to develop regional councils further.

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Section: Regional Councilsmentioning

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Section: Introduction: Acknowledging the Regional Levelmentioning

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Regional Councils in a Global Context: Council Types and Council Elements

Growe

Jemming

2019

Urban Science

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“…Economic development activities tend to be guided by regional partnership institutions that are "formally constituted, but voluntary in the sense that members participate at will and must approve activities" ( Feiock, Moon, and Park 2008 ). It does not appear that leaders or their constituents are devoting much attention to the cross-jurisdictional issues of regional governance ( Visser 2004 ), but they will need to start doing so and provide leadership at the regional as well as the jurisdictional level. City and county administrators already devote considerable attention to making sure that their operations are in sync across regional boundaries and that plans have been made for mutual assistance and responding to large-scale problems.…”

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Strengthening Local Government Leadership and Performance: Reexamining and Updating the Winter Commission Goals

Svara

2008

Public Administration Review

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The Winter Commission report of 1993 stressed cities with the mayor‐council form of government and emphasized removing barriers to executive authority in large cities. In order to assess and update the report, it is important to recognize that a majority of cities with populations over 100,000 use the council‐manager form, in which restrictions on the executive and fragmented authority are unlikely to be present because of the constitutional principles on which the form is based. There has been progress toward improved leadership in both forms of government and substantial management change, including the incorporation of reinventing government and e‐government practices, and large counties are more likely to have an elected or appointed executive. An emerging issue not considered by the commission but in line with its purpose is the increasing challenge of governing expanding metropolitan and megapolitan regions.

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“…Scholarly conversations about this tool for regional governance have become almost synonymous with the divide between urban and suburban. This includes empirically qualitative (Lindstrom, 2010;Visser, 2004), empirically quantitative (Gerber & Gibson, 2009;Sanchez, 2006), and normative approaches (Frug & Barron, 2013). The discussion of cross-boundary organizations outside of the metropolitan context is so rare that their rural equivalents are described as "forgotten" (J. L. Hall, 2008).…”

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Regionalism With and Without Metropolitanism: Governance Structures of Rural and Non-Rural Regional Intergovernmental Organizations

Rickabaugh

2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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While prior scholarship has investigated many tools for regional governance across the rural-to-urban spectrum, the literature on regional organizations (councils of governments, planning district commissions, etc.) has been dominated by metropolitan regions. As a result, we know very little about the plethora of these regional organizations serving rural local governments. The omission of rural regions as a control variable from this conversation limits our ability to determine what traits are truly intergovernmental across this spectrum and what traits are specific to metropolitan and rural regions. Using a new, nationwide database of Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) and original governance documents, I present two unexpected empirical similarities between rural and non-rural RIGOs. First, I demonstrate that the quantity and relative dominance of the local governments within the territorial footprint of rural and non-rural RIGOs are nearly identical when population is held constant. Given the smaller populations within most rural RIGOs, this finding raises serious questions about how limited capacity is diffused and the need for multijurisdictional collaboration in rural areas. Second, I demonstrate that rural and non-rural RIGOs do not substantially differ in the way representational rights are apportioned to local governments on RIGO governing boards. Both rural and non-rural RIGOs similarly balance institutional membership with population proportionality in these collective choice arrangements. This evidence supports a broader intergovernmental hypothesis that an individual local government’s representational rights on a RIGO board are more likely to result from relative size differences among members than facets specific to a city–suburb dynamic.

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Voluntary Regional Councils and the New Regionalism

Cited by 31 publications

References 35 publications

Regional Councils in a Global Context: Council Types and Council Elements

Regional Councils in a Global Context: Council Types and Council Elements

Strengthening Local Government Leadership and Performance: Reexamining and Updating the Winter Commission Goals

Regionalism With and Without Metropolitanism: Governance Structures of Rural and Non-Rural Regional Intergovernmental Organizations

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