Community, scale, and regional governance : [electronic resource] a postfunctionalist theory of governance / Liesbet Hooghe; Gary Marks.

Cover; Transformations in Governance; Community, Scale, and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume II; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Detailed Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; Prologue; 1: Scale and Community; Scale Diversity; The Ladder of Governance; The Nature of Authority; Community; Patterns of Peripheral Survival; 2: Measuring Regional Authority; I. The Background Concept: Political Authority; II. The Specified Concept: Validity and Minimalism; III. Dimensions of Self-rule and Shared Rule. IV. Indicators for Dimensions of Self-rule and Shared Rule; V. Scoring Cases; VI. Adjudicating Scores; Conclusion; 3: Trends in Regional Authority; The Big Picture; Convergence?; A Multilevel Perspective; Differentiated Governance; The Incidence of Reform; Democracy; Conclusion; Appendix; 4: Designing Jurisdictions; Where to Start; Jurisdictional Design in History; Community and Geo-history; Conceptualizing Jurisdictional Design; Comparing Jurisdictional Designs; The Effect of Regime Change; Napoleonic Design; Optimized Design; Rokkanian and Irregular Design. "An Average is But a Solitary Fact"; Appendix; 5: Community and Differentiated Governance; Types of Differentiation; Autonomy; Asymmetry; Dependency; Conclusion; 6: Community and the Structure of Governance; Expectations; Variables; Regional Authority; Community; Democracy; Population, Area, Affluence; Ethnic Diversity; Supranational Governance; Tiers; The Effect of Prior Statehood and Language on Governance; Community's Effect over Time; Conclusion; Appendix; 7: Five Theses on Regional Governance; Regional Governance Has Undergone a Quiet Revolution. Regional Governance Has Become Differentiated; Regional Governance Grows with Affluence; Regional Governance is Social; Regional Governance is Democratic; References; Index.

This text is written for those interested in the character, causes and consequences of governance within the state. It argues that jurisdictional design is shaped by the functional pressures that arise from the logic of scale in providing public goods and by the preferences that people have regarding self-government.