000			01243pab a2200181 454500
008			180718b1996 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_aOrr, Marion
245			_aUrban politics and school reform _bthe case of Baltimore.
260			_c1996
300			_ap.314-45
362			_aJan
520			_a"Relatively little is known about the remarkable increase in the use of special districts for urban service delivery. The author assesses the utility of four alternative theoretical perspectives on the uneven use of districts in metropolitan areas. Empirical analysis of district patterns in more than 300 metropolitan areas in 1987 reveals multiple influences on district use. Local government structure and legal factors emphasized by institutional-reform and metropolitan-ecology perspectives are especially important relative to the service-demand factors asserted by public-choice and critical political-economy perspectives. Of particular note are different motivations associated with use of different geographic and financial subtypes of districts"
650			_aEducational change - United States
650			_aMunicipal government - United States
650			_aLocal government
773			_aUrban Affairs Review
909			_a30853
999			_c30853 _d30853