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Community Integration and Policies among Elites in Two Border Cities

Los dos Laredo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John W. Sloan  and
Jonathan P. West
John W. Sloan
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77004
Jonathan P. West
Affiliation:
Department of Public Administration, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85271
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A number of excellent studies of the U.S.-Mexican border have indicated that the border is occasionally a barrier but more often a permeable membrane through which goods, services, and people can filter. Employment practices and reciprocal trade across the border, together with tourism, have increased the need for policy cooperation among the jurisdictionally distinct but functionally integrated border communities. Our study represents an exploratory effort to find out how border cities are responding to this imperative of greater policy cooperation despite the presence of an international boundary. We selected the cities of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo for our first analysis of policy cooperation because our preliminary investigations of twin cities had persuaded us that relations between the Laredos were numerous, complex, and friendly. The two cities were obviously interdependent; the incentives to achieve a cooperative community appeared to be strong.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , November 1976 , pp. 451 - 474
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1976

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