Michael B. Teitz

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of local decision-making in state government and regional planning, focusing on the problem of Governance and the response to the challenge of emerging regionalism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide additional perspective to the Commission on Regionalism as it considers a new state framework for regional decision-making in California, which was established by Speaker of the California State Assembly Robert Hertzberg.

TL;DR: The ideas outlined in this paper are tentative and only partially developed as mentioned in this paper, and they have arisen very much as a response to the deficiencies in existing regional models. But with increasing demands for analysis at a regional level, a substantial theoretical basis for regional models is manifestly needed.

TL;DR: The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) as discussed by the authors is a private operating foundation with an endowment from William R. Hewlett, Roger W. Heyns, and Arjay Miller.