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Governance: The Collision Of Politics And Cooperation, Richard Callahan
Governance: The Collision Of Politics And Cooperation, Richard Callahan
Public and Nonprofit Administration
Three newly created public agencies built regional rail projects in Los Angeles County from 1978 through 2002. The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, as newly created public agencies, were nothing less than experiments in regional governance. Conventional understanding of these agencies only partially explains their successes and failures. A path to improved understanding is to combine research on the politics of designing new public agencies with research on cooperation in dealing with collective action problems.
What emerges is an untold story of American politics: the evolution of mechanisms …