Metropolitan Reform in the U. S

An Overview

Bibliographic Data

ID9235185
AuthorsJoseph F Zimmerman (corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume30
Issue5
Pages531-531
Publication date1970-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Administration Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/974421
OpenAlexW2313853398
LanguageEN
Citations received9

THE METROPOLITAN PROBLEM, variously defined, has been accorded recognition since the early part of the 20th century, and numerous proposals have been advanced for a restructuring of the system of local government to solve the problem. With relatively few exceptions, reorganization proposals have been rejected by voters who apparently have been influenced more by arguments promising to keep the tax rate low and the government close to the people and free of corruption than by arguments stressing the correction of service inadequacies and the economical and efficient provision of services. Interest in the structural reform of the local government system appeared to reach its peak in the 1950's. Frank C .Moore wrote in 1958 that more surveys have been initiated in the last five years than in the previous thirty. ' Seventy-nine of the 112 surveys initiated between 1923 and 1957 were

Archaeology · Geography · Metropolitan area · Political science · Regional science · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration

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