What Cities Do: How Much Does Urban Policy Matter?

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wolman, Harold ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Institutional choice; Local government; Outcomes; Urban governments; Urban policy; Western nations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921660814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195367867.013.0021     Document Type: Chapter

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