Collaboration is not enough: Virtuous cycles of reform in transportation policy

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 455-489

  Weir, Margaret ^a   Rongerude, Jane ^a   Ansell, Christopher K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Networks; Regionalism; Transportation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; POLICY REFORM; POLITICAL SYSTEM; REGIONALISM; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

CALIFORNIA; CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; LOS ANGELES; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59849115584     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087408322590     Document Type: Article

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