@article{ref1,
title="Governing U.S. Metropolitan Areas",
journal="American politics research",
year="2009",
author="Shrestha, M. K. and Feiock, R. C.",
volume="37",
number="5",
pages="801-823",
abstract="How are fragmented metropolitan areas characterized by multiple actors and multiple relationships governed? This has been a question of enduring interest in the study of local politics and policy. Recent works have made progress in understanding the emergence of self-organizing networks for individual service relationships. However, in the context of multiple service relationships, patterns of service networks that evolve as a consequence of local governments’ actions to address transaction problems have been long overlooked. This article begins to fill this gap in the literature by analyzing pay-for-service contracts across multiple municipal services in one metropolitan county in Florida. The results obtained from matrix correlation and matrix regression based on a quadratic assignment procedure reveal that local jurisdictions develop cross-service reciprocity networks in a multiple services contract environment to resolve credibility of commitment problems they encounter in entering and maintaining interlocal service contracts.<p />",
language="",
issn="1532-673X",
doi="10.1177/1532673X09337466",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532673X09337466"
}