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Federalism and Metropolitan Governance in Cross-National Perspective: The Case of Urban Sprawl

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  • Jefferey M Sellers

    (Department of Political Science, University of Southern California, 237 Von KleinSmid Center, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0044, USA)

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In this paper, I employ a ‘bottom-up’ approach to analyze efforts to curb exurban sprawl in cross-national perspective. Based on local housing and environmental data in a total of eleven French, German, and US urban regions, the analysis demonstrates that policies and institutions addressed to urban governance made more of a difference for outcomes than did federalism and other aspects of vertical integration at the heights of national states. This result highlights the importance both of local policy determinations and of the supralocal institutional infrastructures in which they nest.

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  • Jefferey M Sellers, 2002. "Federalism and Metropolitan Governance in Cross-National Perspective: The Case of Urban Sprawl," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 20(1), pages 95-112, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:20:y:2002:i:1:p:95-112
    DOI: 10.1068/c11w
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