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Associated Municipalities

Collective Action and the Formation of State Leagues of Cities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Bertram Johnson
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Students of federalism in the United States and elsewhere have long been fascinated by the relationships between lower and higher levels of government. State municipal leagues are one important, yet understudied, means by which cities interact with states in the United States. I examine the history of these municipal leagues, arguing that the timing of their formation in U.S. states was in part dependent on state restrictions on special legislation and in part due to the efforts of nationwide networks of policy entrepreneurs. Drawing on scholarly literatures on collective action and associational networks, I develop and test an account of how state municipal leagues formed and how they spread.

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Social Science History , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , winter 2005 , pp. 549 - 574
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2005

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