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Title: Borders of Law and Money: Group Formation and the Fragmentation of the American Metropolis

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: The debate over the best way to organize the metropolis is a perennial interest of political science, economics and public administration. Is it better to centralize the metropolis into a single consolidated jurisdiction or to allow a polycentric metropolis? While much has been written on which is the better way to shift a metropolis, less has been written on the question of why the existing level of fragmentation is. Cities are a type of social organization and have similarities to interest groups a social organization for which there exist theories of fragmentation. Drawing variables from the metropolitan governance literature and the interest group literature, this paper analyzes a panel of American Metropolitan Statistical Areas and finds that fragmentation within MSAs is driven by the financial resources available to local governments, state laws governing local government powers, political liberalism, and the socio-economic diversity of the population.

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Authors: Howell, Matthew L.

Publisher: University of Kentucky

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Topics: Housing and Segregation

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