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Author Mullin, Megan, 1973-

Title Governing the tap : special district governance and the new local politics of water / Megan Mullin.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Series American and comparative environmental policy
American and comparative environmental policy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- A conditional theory of specialized governance -- Private costs and public benefits in local public services -- Distributing the price of growth -- Boundaries and the incentive to act alone -- Fighting over land and water: venues in local growth disputes -- Specialization and fragmentation in American local governance.
Note Print version record.
Summary Megan Mullin offers analysis of the political consequences of special district governance in drinking water management and offers new insights to the influence of political structures on local policymaking.
Subject Water utilities -- United States.
Water districts -- United States.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Water Supply.
Water districts. (OCoLC)fst01171690
Water utilities. (OCoLC)fst01172219
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form: Print version: Mullin, Megan, 1973- Governing the tap. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009 9780262013130 0262013134 (DLC) 2008044250 (OCoLC)263146907
ISBN 9780262259088 (electronic bk.)
0262259087 (electronic bk.)
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