Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Governmental Functions and Processes:
Local and Areawide. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974. 168 pp.
Thorough and systematic analysis of theoretical considerations and political issues in the assignment of governmental functions to the local or areawide level.
Benson, Charles, and Peter Lund. Neighborhood Distribution of Local Public Services.
Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1969. 181 pp.
Differential patterns of service consumption by neighborhood socio-economic status.
Black, Guy. The Decentralization of Urban Government: A Systems Approach. Springfield, VA:
National Technical Information Service, 1968. 30 pp.
Analysis of the trade-off between functional organization and area decentralization.
Farr, Walter G., Jr., Lance Liebman, and Jeffrey S. Wood. Decentralizing City Government: A
Practical Study of a Radical Proposal for New York City. New York: Praeger, 1972. 244 pp.
Thorough study of potential benefits, pitfalls and implementation problems in both political and administrative decentralization. Predates actual charter reforms and District Manager experiment.
Fletcher, Jeff. "Municipal Decentralization and Little City Halls." Washington: National League
of Cities, 1974. 7 pp.
Brief overview of municipal decentralization experience, including a useful distinction between "little city halls" and "multi-service centers."
Hallman, Howard W. Neighborhood Government in a Metropolitan Setting. Beverly Hills: Sage,
1974. 256 pp.
Advocates a plan for substantial political decentralization.
Hallman, Howard W. Government by Neighborhoods. Washington: Center for Governmental
Studies, 1973. 63 pp.
Highlights of above.
Kotler, Milton. Neighborhood Government: The Local Foundations of Political Life.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
Somewhat polemical argument for neighborhood government.
Mudd, John. Neighborhood Services: Making Big Cities Work. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1984.
Analysis of the New York City decentralization experiment.
Nordlinger, Eric A. Decentralizing the City: A Study of Boston's Little City Halls. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1972. 310 pp.
Shalala, Donna E. Neighborhood Governance: Issues and Proposals. New York: American
Jewish Committee, National Project on Ethnic America, 1971. 48 pp.
Exceptionally lucid analysis of alternatives proposed by the Committee for Economic Development, the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and others.
Yin, Robert, and Douglas Yates. "Street-Level Governments: Assessing Decentralization and
Urban Services." Nation's Cities, November 1974, pp. 34-48.
Analyzes results reported in 215 previously published case studies for evidence of lasting impacts in increasing the flow of information between servers and served, improving service officials' attitudes, client attitudes, services delivered, and client control.