Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780877667698)

In Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government, attorney and political science scholar Evan McKenzie explores emerging trends in private governments and competing schools of thought on how to operate them, from state oversight to laissez-faire libertarianism. The most common analyses see CIDs from a neoclassical economic, positive point of view. HoAs, this strain of analysis maintains, are more efficient and frugal than municipalities. And what could be more democratic than government of the neighbors, by the neighbors? But scholars coming from institutional analysis, communitarianism, and critical urban theory frameworks see possible repercussions. These include a development's failure leaving residents on the hook for crippling sums, capture or extension of the local state, and convergence of public and private local governments

Author: E. McKenzie
ISBN-10: 0877667691
ISBN-13: 9780877667698
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2011
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2012
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 72