Federalism and Community in the Metropolis
Can Los Angeles Neighborhoods Help Govern Gargantua? 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12450834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juliet Musso (0000-0002-9696-5186, Southern California University for Professional Studies, corresponding author), Juliet A Musso (University of Southern California) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 342-353 |
| Publication date | 1999-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administrative Theory & Praxis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-1806 • E-ISSN: 1949-0461 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10841806.1999.11643382 |
| OpenAlex | W2560766255 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper considers the potential of a neighborhood council system to improve community governance in Los Angeles. A neighborhood counCil system arguably manifests a federal principle, in that it is an association of territorially individuated, but related, political communities. Thus neighborhood councils are an alternative to structural reform in the form of segmentation through community secession. In Los Angeles, the implementation of a council system recently approved by the voters will confront the fundamental tensions found within a federal system, which are the value of differentiating and expressing political interests on the one hand, and the dangers of segregation, exclusion, balkanization and parochialism on the other. The challenges for implementation include the development of councils in natural neighborhoods, and the provision of meaningful support and mechanisms for participation. It is also very important to provide organizational support to neighborhoods that may not foster high levels of participation, such as impoverished areas and areas with many recent immigrants
Corporate governance · Economics · Federalism · Immigration · Management · Parochialism · Political science · Politics · Secession · Sociology · Law · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Government–nonprofit relations in comparative perspective
Alternatives to Representative Primacy and Administrative Efficiency
Ingredients for Success
Fragile but essential
Understanding the Roles and Contributions of Neighborhood Organizations in Civic Governance
Dynamics of collaboration, cooperation, and conflict
Experiments with Local Federalism
Event History Analysis of the Formation of Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils
Participatory Governance and the Spatial Representation of Neighborhood Issues
The public economy of metropolitan areas
Fortress America
Cities without Suburbs
Barriers to Voluntary Organization Membership
On the flexibility of municipal boundaries
The politics and economics of decentralization
Federalism
The State of American Federalism
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City
Federalism and Community in the American Context
A Bias Toward Federalism
Can Federalism Make a Difference
A Political-Economy Approach to the Study of Neighborhood Organizations
Mobilizing Minority Communities
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |