"Collaboration Is Not Enough: Virtuous Cycles of Reform in Transportation Policy" by Margaret Weir

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Collaboration Is Not Enough: Virtuous Cycles of Reform in Transportation Policy

Urban Affairs Review (2009)

Margaret Weir, University of California, Berkeley
Jane M. Rongerude, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher K. Ansell, University of California, Berkeley

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Abstract

Over the past two decades, a burgeoning literature has touted the promise of regional collaboration to address a wide range of issues. This article challenges the premise that horizontal collaboration alone can empower regional decision-making venues. By analyzing efforts to create regional venues for transportation policy making in Chicago and Los Angeles, the authors show that vertical power is essential to building regional capacities. Only by exercising power at multiple levels of the political system can local reformers launch a virtuous cycle of reform that begins to build enduring regional capacities.

Disciplines

Transportation and
Urban Studies

Publication Date

2009

DOI

10.1177/1078087408322590

Publisher Statement

This is a working paper of an article published as Weir, Margaret, Jane Rongerude, and Christopher K. Ansell. "Collaboration is not enough: Virtuous cycles of reform in transportation policy." Urban Affairs Review 44, no. 4 (2009): 455-489. Posted with permission.

Citation Information

Margaret Weir, Jane M. Rongerude and Christopher K. Ansell. "Collaboration Is Not Enough: Virtuous Cycles of Reform in Transportation Policy" Urban Affairs Review Vol. 44 Iss. 4 (2009) p. 455 - 489
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jane_rongerude/11/