01715nam a2200157 4500 510279 510279 190809b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Wolman, Harold (Hal) 8016 Looking at regional governance institutions in other countries as a possible model for U.S.. metropolitan areas: an examination of multipurpose regional service delivery districts in British Columbia 2019 p.321-354. General purpose or multipurpose governments at the metropolitan level have proven extremely difficult to create and sustain in the United States. In their absence, a range of institutions have evolved to address problems of regional fragmentation and to promote interlocal cooperation and collaboration. These include single-purpose regional special districts, interlocal contracts and agreements, and voluntary regional organizations of local governments such as councils of government. However, several countries make use of another institutional form, multipurpose special districts, rather than or in addition to single-purpose special districts, as a mechanism for facilitating regional governance and intermunicipal collaboration. This essay examines one example of such an institution: regional districts in British Columbia. It analyzes what accounts for their successful creation and institutionalization and considers whether such an institutional model is potentially adoptable in the United States. It focuses particularly on the perceived reduction in transaction cost for achieving intermunicipal agreements. - Reproduced. Regionalism 8017 Urban Affairs Review Local government - United States ddc AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 384219 IIPA IIPA 2019-08-09 55(1), Jan, 2019: p.321-354. AR119912 2019-08-09 AR