Governing U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Self-Organizing and Multiplex Service Networks

American Politics Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 801-823

  Shrestha, Manoj K ^a   Feiock, Richard C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metropolitan governance; Multiplex networks; Network regionalism; Self organizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249149734     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X09337466     Document Type: Article

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