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Regional Approaches to Rural Government: What Role in the Eighties?

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  • Reid, J. Norman
  • Stam, Jerome M

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Substate regional organizations -- public bodies to provide planning, technical assistance, and service coordination for multicounty areas -- are a relatively new development in the American governmental system. Known by a variety of names, such as regional councils, regional planning commissions, or other specialized titles, few of these agencies existed before the midsixties. Since then, Federal support for the regional concept has led to rapid growth in the number and importance of these agencies. Today, over 2,000 of these agencies virtually blanket the Nation. This article reviews the status of substate regional organizations. How well have they met the goals originally set for them? Have they earned a legitimate place in providing needed services to rural local governments? And, how will they fare during the eighties?

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  • Reid, J. Norman & Stam, Jerome M, 1981. "Regional Approaches to Rural Government: What Role in the Eighties?," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 4(4), September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:310171
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310171
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