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100			_aLeón-Moreta, Agustín _945281
245			_aFunctional responsibilities of municipal government: Metropolitan disparities and instruments of intergovernmental management
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 56, Issue 12, 2019,(2585-2607 p.)
520			_aThis paper examines the functional responsibilities of municipal government, in the context of intergovernmental interactions in metropolitan areas of the USA. It presents an operationalisation of the functional responsibilities of municipal government: measures of size and breadth of those responsibilities assess the reliability of the findings across those related measurements. Alternative explanations are tested for differences in the functional responsibilities of municipal government in metropolitan (metro) areas. The central finding is that the functional responsibilities of municipal government vary widely; additional findings are that regional and intergovernmental contexts shape those responsibilities, based on a pooled time-series analysis of municipal governments. The paper reports census-normalised data that can be utilised for research extensions. Although its primary contribution is to research on functional responsibilities of municipal government, the paper also proposes a local public economies approach to identify factors influencing the breadth of those responsibilities in metropolitan areas.
650			_afunctional (service) responsibilities, _944509
650			_a intergovernmental management, _934427
650			_a metropolitan areas, _945282
650			_amunicipal longevity _945283
773	0		_011188 _915499 _dsage, 2019. _tUrban studies
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018794612
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