Metropolitan governance (or not!) in Poland and the United States

• Authors: Marta Lackowska , Donald F. Norris

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, we address the issue of metropolitan governance by examining its current state and the factors responsible for that state in Poland and the U.S. We find that, despite numerous differences between the two nations, the state of metropolitan governance is quite similar in both. That is, neither country exhibits examples of well-developed metropolitan governance. What is even more interesting is that the factors responsible for this situation are quite similar in both countries. Our principal finding is that political factors (mainly having to do with citizens' preferences and the resulting lack of support for metropolitan institutions) have prevented the development of metropolitan governance in both. Moreover, because of the strength of these political factors, the current state of metropolitan governance in Poland and the U.S. is not likely to change in the foreseeable future, even under the presumed pressure of economic competitiveness.

Keywords

EN

Metropolitan governance; impediments of the reform; Poland; the United States

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Marta Lackowska

• Department of Local Development and Policy, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland

author

Donald F. Norris

• School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/mgrsd-2017-0021

Biblioteka Nauki

2108232