In this revolutionary new book, authors David Miller and Jennifer Nelles humbly offer a new way to conceptualize those common approaches: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) that bring together local governments to coordinate policies across jurisdictional boundaries. Providing a new conceptual framework for understanding how regional decision-making has emerged in the US, this book will provoke a new and rich era of discussion about American regionalism in theory and practice.

David Miller is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), USA.

Jen Nelles is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department Urban Public Policy at Hunter College (CUNY), USA.

1. Regionalism Then and Now 2. Local Government and the Evolution of American Regionalism 3. State Approaches to Regional Cross-Boundary Relations 3. What's a RIGO? 5. Rethinking Regions through the Lens of RIGOs 6. RIGO Relationships: IGOs and MPOs 7. RIGOs and MSAs: Spatial Dissimilarity 8. Measuring the Jurisdictional Environment of Regions: The Regional Power Diffusion Index (RPDI) [George Dougherty and David Miller] 9. Distributing Decision-Making between Local Governments on RIGO Boards [Jay Rickabaugh] 10. Distributing Decision-Making to the Civic Sector on RIGO Boards [George Dougherty and David Miller] 11. Charting the RIGO Policy Space Appendix 1. State Listing of RIGOs Appendix 2. State Listing of RMPOs