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.
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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.