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GCI Working Paper Series - 2003
Reconstructing
Regional Politics: Special Purpose Authorities and Municipal Governments
Dennis Judd
Professor, Department of Political Science
Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago
Faculty Fellow, Great Cities Institute
June 2003
GCP-03-01
In this working paper, Professor Judd asserts that special authorities
and development corporations shape metropolitan growth at least as much
as do cities, and that their fiscal and political authority is rapidly
increasing. As the center of gravity in urban development moves away
from general-purpose governments, important questions arise: How can
these new institutions be made accountable, yet remain effective? Does
the new institutional fragmentation of urban regions doom the prospects
for regional cooperation and governance?
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